Massachusetts · Public charity
Boston Main Streets Foundation
To revitalize city of boston neighborhood main streets.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2025
- $109k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,330
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $918k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Boston Main Streets Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $109k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $78k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $68k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $128k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $96k | 85% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $32k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde Park Main Streets Inc | $72,980 | 6 | 17% |
| Centre South Main Streets Inc | $67,500 | 6 | 10% |
| Greater Ashmont Main Street Inc | $62,330 | 6 | 7% |
| West Roxbury Main Streets Inc | $51,500 | 6 | 12% |
| Brighton Main Streets Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Roslindale Village Main Street Inc | $32,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Greater Grove Hall Main Streets | $30,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Roxbury Main Streets Revitalization Corporation | $30,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Uphams Corner Main Street Incorporated | $26,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Fields Corner Main Street Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 7% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde Park Main Streets Inc | $72,980 | 6 | 17% |
| Centre South Main Streets Inc | $67,500 | 6 | 10% |
| Greater Ashmont Main Street Inc | $62,330 | 6 | 7% |
| West Roxbury Main Streets Inc | $51,500 | 6 | 12% |
| Brighton Main Streets Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Roslindale Village Main Street Inc | $32,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Greater Grove Hall Main Streets | $30,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Roxbury Main Streets Revitalization Corporation | $30,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Uphams Corner Main Street Incorporated | $26,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Fields Corner Main Street Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 7% |
| Four Corners Main Street Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 7% |
| Bowdoin Geneva Main Streets Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Hyde Jackson Square Main Street | $12,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Allston Village Main Streets Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 4% |
| East Boston Gateway Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Egleston Square Main Street Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Chinatown Main Street Program | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Three Squares Main Street Jp Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Bams Fest Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Mattapan Square Main Streets Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Mission Hill Main Streets Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 3% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Boston Main Streets Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Boston Main Streets Foundation
- How much does Boston Main Streets Foundation give?
- Boston Main Streets Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $108,830, out of $1,448,419 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Boston Main Streets Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (100%).
- Who are Boston Main Streets Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hyde Park Main Streets Inc ($73k), Centre South Main Streets Inc ($68k), Greater Ashmont Main Street Inc ($62k).
- Does Boston Main Streets Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Boston Main Streets Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Boston Main Streets Foundation based?
- Boston Main Streets Foundation is based in MA.
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