How much does The Boston Athletic Association give?

The Boston Athletic Association reported 35 grants totaling $2,374,159 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Boston Athletic Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (64%), Crime & Legal (15%), Recreation & Sports (6%).

Who are The Boston Athletic Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Boston ($5.0M), Cape Cod Community College ($3.3M), Town of Hopkinton ($1.1M).

Does The Boston Athletic Association fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Boston Athletic Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GivenGain Foundation USA, Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.

Where is The Boston Athletic Association based?

The Boston Athletic Association is based in MA.

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Massachusetts · Public charity

The Boston Athletic Association

The promotion of the common good and health and welfare of the general public and the encouragement of the general public to improve its physical condition by the promotion and regulation of amateur sports competition. The baa operates in three principal segments: (1) the conduct of long distance, mass participation running events,…

$2.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 35
Grants FY2025: 40
Organizations funded FY2024: 43%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $537,800
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 40; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $45M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Boston Athletic Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	32	$2.3M	34%
FY2024	40	$2.2M	43%
FY2023	27	$1.8M	33%
FY2022	25	$3.3M	56%
FY2021	7	$163k	43%
FY2020	7	$412k	29%
FY2019	13	$1.4M	0%
FY2018	14	$1.5M	0%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$9.3MCrime & Legal$2.2MRecreation & Sports$898kHealth$590kPublic Safety & Disaster$577kEducation$302kYouth Development$254kPhilanthropy$150kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
City of Boston	$5,037,200	8	n/a
Cape Cod Community College	$3,285,800	9	n/a
Town of Hopkinton	$1,092,300	7	n/a
Town of Brookline	$654,200	7	n/a
Town of Natick	$640,423	7	n/a
Wellesley Public Schools	$569,200	7	n/a
City of Framingham	$569,200	7	n/a
Town of Ashland	$569,200	7	n/a
Roxbury Community College Foundation Inc	$250,000	1	16%
Dimock Community Health Center Inc	$225,000	9	0%

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All grantees of The Boston Athletic Association by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Boston	$5,037,200	8	n/a
Cape Cod Community College	$3,285,800	9	n/a
Town of Hopkinton	$1,092,300	7	n/a
Town of Brookline	$654,200	7	n/a
Town of Natick	$640,423	7	n/a
Wellesley Public Schools	$569,200	7	n/a
City of Framingham	$569,200	7	n/a
Town of Ashland	$569,200	7	n/a
Roxbury Community College Foundation Inc	$250,000	1	16%
Dimock Community Health Center Inc	$225,000	9	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$150,000	2	n/a
Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office	$110,000	2	0%
The Sports Museum of New England Inc	$66,600	8	1%
Youth Enrichment Services Inc	$62,475	4	1%
Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc	$62,425	7	1%
Friends of the Public Garden Inc	$60,000	6	0%
Amateur Athletic Union of the United States Inc	$56,508	3	18%
Massachusetts State Track Coaches Assoc	$50,000	4	1%
Boston United Txc	$43,608	3	n/a
262 Foundation Inc	$41,700	5	10%
Black Girls Run Foundation	$39,625	3	3%
Adaptive Sports New England Inc	$38,225	3	5%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$33,772	1	n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$33,772	1	0%
Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc	$32,611	2	0%
Stride for Stride Foundation Inc	$32,000	2	19%
National Black Marathoners Association	$30,000	1	n/a
Metro -Cobras Youth Enrichment	$28,950	3	n/a
Rise Above Foundation Inc	$27,000	2	2%
The Baseball Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Heather Abbott Foundation	$25,000	2	4%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$25,000	2	n/a
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc	$22,500	1	0%
University of Arkansas Fayetteville	$22,500	1	n/a
Achilles International Inc	$22,000	2	0%
Girls on the Run Greater Boston	$20,000	1	1%
Athletes Unlimited Newton Ma Inc	$20,000	2	4%
Spark Newton Corporation	$20,000	1	6%
Martin W Richard Charitable Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Boston Bulldogs Running Club	$20,000	2	3%
Pulson Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc	$17,500	2	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Codman Academy Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Pal of Massachusetts Inc	$15,000	1	3%
Active Kids & Minds Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$15,000	1	0%
Fast Feet Running and Athletics Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Charles River Watershed Association Inc	$15,000	1	0%
All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc	$14,000	1	3%
Bmr Foundation Inc	$13,500	2	n/a
Boston Road Runners Inc	$12,000	1	n/a
Evkids Inc	$12,000	1	1%
Roxbury Community College	$12,000	1	n/a
Massachusetts Sickle Cell Associationinc	$10,000	1	2%
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport	$10,000	1	3%
The Links Foundation Incorporated	$10,000	1	0%
Squashbusters Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The3pointfoundation Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Earth Circle Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Dream Big Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Active Social Communities Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Franciscan Hospital for Children	$9,848	1	0%
Mental Health Collaborative Inc	$8,000	1	2%
Trailblazhers Corp Dba Trailblazhers Run Co	$7,500	1	n/a
USA Track & Field-New England Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
Trinity Boston Connects Inc	$7,500	1	0%
PIONEERS Run Crew	$7,500	1	n/a
One Summit Inc	$7,000	1	1%
261 Fearless Club New England Inc	$6,404	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Boston Athletic Association supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 46.

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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.

GivenGain Foundation USAFL50.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GivenGain Foundation USA · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Red Sox Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Good Sports Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Boston Athletic Association

How much does The Boston Athletic Association give?: The Boston Athletic Association reported 35 grants totaling $2,374,159 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Boston Athletic Association fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (64%), Crime & Legal (15%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
Who are The Boston Athletic Association's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Boston ($5.0M), Cape Cod Community College ($3.3M), Town of Hopkinton ($1.1M).
Does The Boston Athletic Association fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Boston Athletic Association?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GivenGain Foundation USA, Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
Where is The Boston Athletic Association based?: The Boston Athletic Association is based in MA.