1. Directory of nonprofits
  2. Locations
  3. Massachusetts
  4. Boston
  5. Boston private foundations

Boston private foundations

There are 3,702 private foundations in the greater Boston metro area, including the cities of Boston, Cambridge, Framingham, Newton, and Waltham. Combined, these Boston metro private foundations employ 824 people, earn more than $6 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $38 billion.
Skip to:
Related directory pages:

Types of private foundations in Boston

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Private foundations
 
3,702
 
$6,483,921,748
Corporate foundations
 
73
 
$1,779,254,886
Showing 2 of 2 categories

Sizes of private foundations in Boston

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
2,121
$250k to $1M
 
597
$1M to $5M
 
349
$5M to $25M
 
136
$25M to $100M
 
39
$100M+
 
5
Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Directory of private foundations in Boston

Want to add filters to this list, or drill down on results in detail? Open in the Cause IQ search interface
1-20 of 3,702

Josiah Willard Hayden Recreation Center

To establish a place of meeting of the youth of Lexington for their moral, mental, and social improvement and development and in general to do all things which may promote directly or indirectly their intellectual, social, and physical welfare.
Revenue
$5.5m
Assets
$31.9m
Employees
6
EIN
04-2203700
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Observatory Hill Foundation

The Observatory Hill Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation located in Boston, MA, and it receives support from Jerold S Kayden.
Revenue
$33.7m
Assets
$33.7m
Employees
0
EIN
99-3543205
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Jampart Charitable Trust

Jampart Charitable Trust is a private foundation in Boston, MA, which was founded in 1969 and most recently had $5,718,396 in revenue and no employees.
Revenue
$5.7m
Assets
$80.4m
Employees
0
EIN
23-7009635
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Sandy Beach Foundation

The Sandy Beach Foundation is a private foundation located in Boston, MA. It funds primarily operating support and made one grant last year. Grantees include Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund.
Revenue
$19.3m
Assets
$65.3m
Employees
0
EIN
47-3359784
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Gordon Hall III Family Foundation

The Gordon Hall III Family Foundation is a Boston-based family foundation supporting nonprofits with general operating grants, including the Forest Society of Maine.
Revenue
$12.9m
Assets
$12.7m
Employees
0
EIN
93-4970548
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Robert Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts

Chicago-based private foundation Robert Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts primarily funds general support, including Holy Trinity Polish Mission; made one grant last year.
Revenue
$5.1m
Assets
$14.9m
Employees
0
EIN
36-7353406
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family Foundation

The Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family Foundation is a private foundation that is located in Chelmsford, MA. The Foundation makes annual grants to a Corpus of $2,441,916.
Revenue
$6.5m
Assets
$201.2m
Employees
0
EIN
04-3582759
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Chestnut Fund

The Chestnut Fund is a private foundation located in Boston, MA that made $2,750,000 in annual grants last year. It is supported by 1 and has total assets of $58,338,326.
Revenue
$8.1m
Assets
$54.9m
Employees
0
EIN
47-7017184
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Edward C. Johnson Fund

The Edward C. Johnson Fund, a Boston-based corporate foundation, supports endowment, operating costs, property care, and preservation with grants to nonprofits.
Revenue
$84.1m
Assets
$563.9m
Employees
1
EIN
04-6108344
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Mussafer Family Foundation

The Mussafer Family Foundation is a private foundation that is located in Weston, MA. The trustees of the foundation are David M. Mussafer and Marion M. Mussafer. The foundation provides grants to Steppingstone Foundation.
Revenue
$5.9m
Assets
$56.6m
Employees
0
EIN
38-7216877
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Bromley Charitable Trust

The Bromley Charitable Trust is a private foundation that provides grants to Lion Guardian Us. It made 33 grants last year and is supported by Duncan Mcfarland. It is located in Westwood, MA.
Revenue
$6.8m
Assets
$13.8m
Employees
1
EIN
04-3237138
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Limestone Foundation / Elizabeth Deknatel Ttee

The Limestone Foundation is a private foundation located in Boston, MA. It awarded $2,036,000 in grants last year and has $43,986,813 in assets.
Revenue
$8.6m
Assets
$46.2m
Employees
0
EIN
47-7017224
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Peter and Anna Kolchinsky Foundation

NH private foundation funds operating & capital expenses, advocacy dept. education, and campaign acc with 7 grants last year.
Revenue
$15.0m
Assets
$38.4m
Employees
0
EIN
85-4079895
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Gilson Family Foundation

The Gilson Family Foundation is a private foundation that provides funds for charitable distributions. Some of the grantees include Pittsfield High School. They made 20 grants last year. The foundation is located in Marblehead, MA.
Revenue
$7.4m
Assets
$29.7m
Employees
0
EIN
27-4379483
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Ann Theodore Foundation Amy B Naughton Trustee

The Ann Theodore Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants to support future donations, education for low-income seniors and adults, and children in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Revenue
$7.6m
Assets
$73.6m
Employees
0
EIN
81-4558318
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation

The Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation is a private foundation that supports a variety of charitable causes. In the past, the foundation has made grants to the Greenhill School.
Revenue
$10.4m
Assets
$54.7m
Employees
0
EIN
26-3931946
IRS type
501(c)(3)

MWC Foundation

The MWC Foundation, based in Boston, funds general support initiatives and made 91 grants last year, including to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Revenue
$11.9m
Assets
$23.8m
Employees
0
EIN
22-2914691
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Summer Isle Foundation

The The Summer Isle Foundation is a private foundation located in South Hamilton, MA that primarily funds to promote its charitable purpose. Grantees include We Charity. Made two grants last year.
Revenue
$20.6m
Assets
$37.0m
Employees
0
EIN
81-3882939
IRS type
501(c)(3)

TJX Foundation

To deliver great value to customers through the combination of brand, fashion, price, and quality. We believe that our demographic reach is among the widest in retail as we attract a broad range of fashion.
Revenue
$34.4m
Assets
$77.2m
Employees
0
EIN
04-2399760
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Perfect Seas Foundation

The Perfect Seas Foundation is a private foundation located in Boston, MA. The foundation primarily invests its money in stocks, and it earned $50,000 in dividends last year, so it gave $10,000 to a grantee.
Revenue
$12.9m
Assets
$123.9m
Employees
0
EIN
84-3835636
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Want more insights on private foundations in Boston?
There's a whole lot more to Cause IQ than what you see here. Additional filters, personnel information, peer benchmarking, Salesforce integration, vendor lists, etc. Access all the information your company needs in one place, already collected.
Schedule a demo
Over 200 customers use Cause IQ to grow, maintain, and serve their nonprofit clients.
Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "T20: Private Foundations" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
Cause IQ is a website that helps companies grow, maintain, and serve their nonprofit clients, and helps nonprofits find additional foundation funding. Our data and tools help professionals prospect for nonprofits, research opportunities, benchmark their clients, and enrich existing information.
Nonprofits
Product
Customers
About

© 2026 Nonprofit Metrics LLC
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy