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The Devonshire Foundation: 40 grants to organizations, $3 million (tax year ended December 2024)
The Devonshire Foundation, a private foundation in Boston, MA, paid 40 grants to organizations totaling $2,970,575 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 16, 2025. The largest was $290,471 to Tech Goes Home Incorporated in Boston, MA for tech goes home's three-year grant supports expansion of their development and earned revenue teams to increase fundraising and earned revenue income. the grant will help tech goes home build internal.
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- EIN
- 046004808
- Based in
- Boston, MA
- Assets
- $63,988,256
- Grants paid
- $2,970,575
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 16, 2025, IRS object ID 202513209349100426. It reported $2,970,575 in grants paid; 40 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tech Goes Home Incorporated | Boston, MA | Tech goes home's three-year grant supports expansion of their development and earned revenue teams to increase fundraising and earned revenue income. the grant will help tech goes home build internal | $290,471 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boston Food Forest Coalition | Jamaica Plain, MA | Three-year grant to support building out a fully staffed development department with the tools needed to support and increase fundraising efforts and sustainability. | $279,600 | apps.irs.gov | |
| United South End Settlements | Boston, MA | United south end settlements' (uses) three-year grant supports uses's financial sustainability through improved fundraising and earned revenue. the grant supports development staffing needs, upgrading | Human services | $251,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Friends of the Children-Boston | Boston, MA | Three-year grant supports increasing fundraising capacity. | Human services | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Urban Farming Institute | Mattapan, MA | Three-year grant supports building their internal capacity to strengthen fundraising, finance and marketing infrastructure allowing the organization to grow overall revenue and fundraising. | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Third Sector New England (mattapan Food and Fitness) | Mattapan, MA | Three-year grant supports program, operations, and development staff hires to help expand mffc's programmatic reach and increase fundraising | $249,843 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Science Club for Girls Inc | Cambridge, MA | Three-year grant supports the development, operations, and communications teams to increase fundraising and support operational infrastructure. | Youth development | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Young Man With A Plan | Boston, MA | Three-year grant supports development and operations staff hires to help increase fundraising and the number of young men served | Youth development | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Breaktime United Inc | Boston, MA | Three-year capacity building grant to support breaktime's statewide expansion through building organizational capacity and increased development efforts. | Employment | $180,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust | Lowell, MA | Three-year grant supports development, operations and program staff hires to help increase fundraising and expand programmatic reach. | Environment | $155,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Coaching for Change | Taunton, MA | Coaching for change's three-year grant supports the hiring of a director of development, the implementation of a learning management system and systems integration throughout the grant period, c4c aim | Education | $127,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Loop Lab | Cambridge, MA | The loop lab's (tll) three-year, capacity building grant supports expanding tll's income earning production capacity and significantly enhancing development efforts, enabling tll to increase the annua | $80,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Building Audacity Inc | Lynn, MA | Building audacity's three-year grant supports overall fundraising and the hiring the strategic partnerships director to help scale building audacity's, on the grow program. | $55,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Roca Inc | Chelsea, MA | Matching grant | Youth development | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Louis D Brown Peace Institute | Dorchester, MA | Matching grant | Youth development | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| College for Social Innovation | Boston, MA | General operating grant | Employment | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Fathers' Uplift Inc | Dorchester, MA | Matching grant | Human services | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Institute for Nonprofit Practice | Needham, MA | Matching grant | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Social Innovation Forum Inc | Boston, MA | General operating grant | Human services | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Boston Foundation | Boston, MA | Distribution for the devonshire foundation's board member donor advisory account | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| YWCA Boston | Boston, MA | General operating grant | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hale Education Inc | Westwood, MA | Hale's three-year, capacity building grant supports building hales digital presence through a new website, accessible applications, and targeted communications. | Recreation and sports | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Philanthropy Massachusetts | Boston, MA | Gma environmental justice collaborative fund | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Tufts University | Medford, MA | Distribution for xanthaky memorial scholarship fund | $16,779 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tufts University | Medford, MA | Distribution for xanthaky memorial scholarship fund | $15,805 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Chica Project | Quincy, MA | Matching grant | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Browning the Green Space | Boston, MA | General operating grant | Environment | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | General operating grant | Environment | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Elevated Thought | Lawrence, MA | General operating grant | Education | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Resist (boston Climate Action Network) | Boston, MA | One-year grant to support general operating. | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Sociedad Latina | Roxbury, MA | General operating grant | Youth development | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Philanthropy Massachusetts | Boston, MA | Annual membership | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $8,975 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Foreign Service Association Scholarship Fund | Washington, DC | Distribution for xanthaky memorial scholarship fund | Education | $8,593 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Foreign Service Association Scholarship Fund | Washington, DC | Distribution for xanthaky memorial scholarship fund | Education | $8,009 | apps.irs.gov |
| Grantmakers for Effective Organizations | Washington, DC | Annual membership | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc | Washington, DC | Annual membership | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Doc Wayne Youth Services | Boston, MA | General operating grant | Recreation and sports | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Fathers' Uplift Inc | Dorchester, MA | General operating grant | Human services | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Louis D Brown Peace Institute | Dorchester, MA | General operating grant | Youth development | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| More Than Words | Waltham, MA | General operating grant | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Human services | $552,000 |
| Youth development | $491,000 |
| Employment | $205,000 |
| Environment | $175,000 |
| Education | $154,102 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $58,975 |
| Recreation and sports | $21,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts | $2,948,973 |
| District of Columbia | $21,602 |
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Updated November 16, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.