Grants Database

A breakdown of Barr's charitable support in 2024

In 2024, Barr awarded $130 million to support our partners’ work.

The large majority of Barr’s giving focuses on three program areas: Arts + Creativity, Climate, and Education. This is complemented by grantmaking to strengthen New England’s social sector, and by targeted, time-limited Special Initiatives.

Since 1997, Barr has contributed more than $1.5 billion to charitable causes. The database below displays all of Barr’s grants from the past five years, starting with the most recent. It is updated monthly.

We invite you to explore our grants using the search bar or the filters to sort by year, program, and/or strategy.

Arts + Creativity
Climate
Education

Sector Effectiveness
Special Initiatives
Other

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Year

Program

Strategy

Candid

To provide general support

Award Date: 08/27/2025
Amount: $50,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

To provide general operating support

Award Date: 08/27/2025
Amount: $330,000
Term: 36 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

Collective Knowledge Works, LLC

To provide core support to the May 13 Group project

Award Date: 07/29/2025
Amount: $50,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy
Fiscal Sponsor: Possibility Labs

Feedback Labs Inc

To provide general support

Award Date: 06/27/2025
Amount: $75,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

Northeastern University

To provide program support to the Boston Area Research Initiative to strengthen access to quality program evaluation for community organizations in Greater Boston

Award Date: 05/27/2025
Amount: $80,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

Social Innovation Forum, Inc.

To provide program support for strategic planning

Award Date: 05/27/2025
Amount: $40,000
Term: 9 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

Social Innovation Forum, Inc.

To support a planning grant to explore a regional Full Cost Framework Initiative cohort

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $40,000
Term: 9 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

MetroWest Nonprofit Network, Inc.

To provide general support

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $50,000
Term: 24 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

Resource Organizing Project

To support their cohort-based fundraising training programs in Massachusetts

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $150,000
Term: 24 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy
Fiscal Sponsor: Resist, Inc.

Nonprofit Finance Fund

To support a planning grant to explore a regional Full Cost Framework Initiative cohort

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $68,000
Term: 9 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

Behavioral Ideas Lab, Inc.

To conduct research to identify key behavioral barriers nonprofits and their leaders face in capacity-building programs, and design and test solutions to address these challenges.

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $95,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

Urban Institute

To provide project support for the continued development of the Nonprofit Trends and Impacts Survey

Award Date: 03/04/2025
Amount: $300,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

Grants Database

A breakdown of Barr's charitable support in 2024

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Candid

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

Collective Knowledge Works, LLC

Feedback Labs Inc

Northeastern University

Social Innovation Forum, Inc.

Social Innovation Forum, Inc.

MetroWest Nonprofit Network, Inc.

Resource Organizing Project

Nonprofit Finance Fund

Behavioral Ideas Lab, Inc.

Urban Institute

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