Grants Database

A breakdown of Barr's charitable support in 2025

In 2025, Barr awarded over $130 million in grants and direct charitable support to our partners.

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 $1.89 billion to charitable causes. The database below displays all of Barr’s active 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

Explore our grants database

Year

Program

Strategy

Research for Action, Inc.

To pursue research into school district systems of support for developing teacher effectiveness

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $550,000
Term: 26 months
Program:
Education Click to see more of the Education program
Strategy:
Invest In Educators Click to see more of the Invest In Educators strategy

Leading Now

To provide core support to Leading Now

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $650,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Education Click to see more of the Education program
Strategy:
Invest In Educators Click to see more of the Invest In Educators strategy
Fiscal Sponsor: New Venture Fund

Seek Common Ground

To provide support for Seek Common Ground’s Project for Adolescent Literacy

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $100,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Education Click to see more of the Education program
Strategy:
Build Public Will Click to see more of the Build Public Will strategy
Fiscal Sponsor: New Venture Fund

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.

Friends of St. Stephens Youth Programs Inc.

To support efforts to improve support for multilingual learners in Boston Public Schools

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $100,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Education Click to see more of the Education program
Strategy:
Build Public Will Click to see more of the Build Public Will strategy

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

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

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

Berkshire Environmental Action Team

To support clean energy, mobility, and climate resilience in the Berkshires

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $300,000
Term: 24 months
Program:
Climate Click to see more of the Climate program
Strategy:
Clean Energy Click to see more of the Clean Energy strategy , Climate Resilience Click to see more of the Climate Resilience strategy , Mobility Click to see more of the Mobility strategy

Charitable Independence Initiative

To provide core support for the Charitable Independence Initiative

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $100,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Special Initiatives Click to see more of the Special Initiatives program
Fiscal Sponsor: Issue One

National Council of Nonprofits