Boston Foundation Monument

The Boston Foundation, founded in 1915, is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the nation. Today the Foundation is the largest public charity and the largest grantmaker in New England, making more than $130 million in grants in FY2018. Since 2001, the Boston Foundation has also served as a civic leader by commissioning and publishing research and providing a platform for discussion and progress related to a wide range of challenges facing Boston and the region.nAs Greater Boston’s community foundation since 1915, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to building and sustaining a vital, prosperous city and region, where justice and opportunity are extended to everyone.