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Wagner Foundation: 132 grants to organizations, $12.5 million (tax year ended December 2024)
Wagner Foundation, a private foundation in Cambridge, MA, paid 132 grants to organizations totaling $12,534,222 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 13, 2025. The largest was $1,000,000 to Mass Design Group in Boston, MA for the catalyst fund, learning & engagement program, and labs program.
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- EIN
- 206079941
- Based in
- Cambridge, MA
- Assets
- $228,667,381
- Grants paid
- $12,534,222
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 13, 2025, IRS object ID 202513179349103136. It reported $12,534,222 in grants paid; 132 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mass Design Group | Boston, MA | The catalyst fund, learning & engagement program, and labs program | International, foreign affairs and national security | $1,000,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Year Up Inc | Boston, MA | Campaign for an equitable future | Education | $1,000,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston, MA | Fund for the future: phase ii | Arts, culture and humanities | $700,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Partners in Health A Nonprofit Corporation | Boston, MA | Building on impact towards greater systems change grant | Health care | $650,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Root Capital Inc | Cambridge, MA | Wai evolution & innovation grant | International, foreign affairs and national security | $450,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Integrate Health Inc | Medway, MA | General operating support | $400,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Muso Inc | San Francisco, CA | General operating support | International, foreign affairs and national security | $400,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Pivotworks Inc | Randolph, MA | General operating support | International, foreign affairs and national security | $400,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| United States Artists Inc | Chicago, IL | Wagner arts fellowship | Arts, culture and humanities | $392,722 | apps.irs.gov |
| Seed Global Health Inc | Boston, MA | Innovative financing for health systems strengthening | Education | $350,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Health Initiative Inc | Attleboro, MA | General operating support | Health care | $300,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Fund for Catholic Schools Inc | Braintree, MA | Fund for the future | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Build Health International | Beverly, MA | Rwanda health systems strengthening program | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Homestart Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Community improvement and capacity building | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Women in Global Health Inc | Sacramento, CA | General operating support | Public and societal benefit | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Boston Medical Center | Boston, MA | Vital village network's birth equity leadership fellowship | Health care | $185,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Cambridge Community Foundation | Cambridge, MA | General operating support | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| La Colaborativa Inc | Chelsea, MA | General operating support | Human services | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Now and There Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Regis College | Weston, MA | Regis in haiti program | Education | $140,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Now and There Inc | Boston, MA | The 2025 boston public art triennial | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Printed Matter Inc | New York, NY | Independent publishers grant and commissioned publications | Arts, culture and humanities | $116,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Boston, MA | Doula expansion toolkit dissemination: enhancing maternal health equity project | $110,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| African Visionary Fund Inc | Boston, MA | African visionary fund's health portfolio | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | Boston, MA | Sponsorship of 2024 house party, waiving all goods and services | Youth development | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc | Roxbury, MA | General operating support | Community improvement and capacity building | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Full Frame Initiative | Greenfield, MA | General operating support | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Genunity Inc | Dorchester, MA | General operating support | Community improvement and capacity building | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Global Health Corps Inc | New York, NY | General operating support | Health care | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | Arlington, VA | The inkwell society's black history film initiative & related programs | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston, MA | Jill medvedow fund | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston, MA | Fy25 board special fund | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Boston, MA | Exhibition program and gardner ambassador program | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Local Enterprise Assistance Fund Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Employment | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| More Than Words Inc | Waltham, MA | Community engagement & advocacy work | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL | Renewal of the women artists initiative | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Partners in Health A Nonprofit Corporation | Boston, MA | Expanding health equity in new bedford & beyond | Health care | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc | Newton, MA | Unrestricted emergency response support in massachusetts | Human services | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Boston Center for the Arts Inc | Boston, MA | Studio program | Arts, culture and humanities | $90,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Boston Art Review Inc | Cambridge, MA | General operating support | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Breaktime United Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Employment | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Camp Harbor View Foundation | Scituate, MA | General operating support | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Central Square Business Improvement District Inc | Cambridge, MA | Central square bid strategic planning grant | Community improvement and capacity building | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | Houston, TX | Rebirth in action phase two | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Counterpublic | Saint Louis, MO | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Floating Museum | Chicago, IL | The burroughs residency | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Loop Lab Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Employment | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Monument Lab | Philadelphia, PA | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Royall House Association | Medford, MA | General operating support | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Public Trust | Philadelphia, PA | Engagement curation conference | Arts, culture and humanities | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Art Papers Inc | Atlanta, GA | 'fire ecology' programming | Arts, culture and humanities | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Accompany Doula Care Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | General operating support | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boston Community Pediatrics | Boston, MA | General operating support | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | Boston, MA | Endowment support for the josh kraft fund for diversity and equity | Youth development | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Youth development | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Caremessage | San Francisco, CA | General operating support | Education | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for Economic Democracy | Jamaica Plain, MA | Sei pooled fund | Community improvement and capacity building | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Central Square Business Improvement District Inc | Cambridge, MA | General operating support | Community improvement and capacity building | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Essex Art Center Inc | Lawrence, MA | Artist publishing initiative and 'speech lives' traveling exhibition | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Panorama Global | Seattle, WA | General operating support for community health impact coalition | International, foreign affairs and national security | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | Center for public leadership council fund, waiving all goods and services | Education | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Resist Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support for neighborhood birth center | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc | Boston, MA | Public art program | Recreation and sports | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Peter's School | Cambridge, MA | Annual fund | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Baltimore Museum of Art Inc | Baltimore, MD | Joyce j. scott exhibition | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Red Sox Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | Capital campaign | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Us Biennial Inc | New Orleans, LA | P.6 exhibition | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Performance Zone Dba the Field | New York, NY | At louis place's artist publishing project | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Whyhunger | New York, NY | General operating support for eastern woodlands rematriation | Arts, culture and humanities | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Art Council Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Boston artadia award | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for Economic Democracy | Jamaica Plain, MA | Boston ujima project's podcast organize: radical alternatives to the given' | Community improvement and capacity building | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston, MA | 2024 gala, waiving all goods and services | Arts, culture and humanities | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Bams Fest Inc | Dorchester, MA | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Black History in Action for Cambridgeport | Cambridge, MA | General operating support | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Human services | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Boston Ujima Project Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Community improvement and capacity building | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Familyaid Boston Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Father Bills & Mainspring Inc | Brockton, MA | General operating support | Housing and shelter | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Food for Free Committees Inc | Somervillle, MA | General operating support | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Heading Home Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Housing and shelter | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Immigrant Family Services Institute | Boston, MA | General operating support | Human services | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston, MA | 2024 annual women's luncheon | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | Washington, DC | Paca fund | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Laxart | Los Angeles, CA | Monuments' exhibition | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc | Lowell, MA | General operating support | Food, agriculture and nutrition | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Primary Information Inc | Brooklyn, NY | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Regis College | Weston, MA | 2024 gala, waiving all goods and services | Education | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Shiftworks Community & Public Art | Pittsburgh, PA | General operating support for sibyls shrine | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Sojourns Community Clinic | Westminster, VT | General operating support for the national association of certified professional midwives | Health care | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Storm King Art Center | New Windsor, NY | Arlene shechet exhibition | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc | Chicopee, MA | General operating support | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Boston, MA | 'tomashi jackson: across the universe' exhibition | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Urban Revival Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | General operating support | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Via Art Fund Inc | New York, NY | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Worcester County Food Bank Inc | Shrewsbury, MA | General operating support | Food, agriculture and nutrition | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Central Square Business Improvement District Inc | Cambridge, MA | Shade is social justice: gabriel cira and matthew okizaki public art project | Community improvement and capacity building | $22,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Alianza DV Services Inc | Holyoke, MA | General operating support | Human services | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Casa Myrna Vasquez Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Human services | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc | Pittsfield, MA | General operating support | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harborcov Inc | Chelsea, MA | General operating support | Human services | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Propa City Community Outreach | Roxbury, MA | General operating support | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Rosies Place Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Housing and shelter | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Center for Hope and Healing Inc | Lowell, MA | General operating support | Mental health and crisis intervention | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts | New Bedford, MA | General operating support | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Center for Independent Documentary | Newton, MA | General operating support for roxbury international film festival | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Fractured Atlas | New York, NY | June 2025 arrival art fair, waiving all goods and services | Arts, culture and humanities | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Tate Americas Foundation | New York, NY | 2024 membership - north american acquisitions committee, waiving all goods and services | Arts, culture and humanities | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Boston Center for the Arts Inc | Boston, MA | Luis arnias traveling exhibition | Arts, culture and humanities | $13,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston | Boston, MA | General operating support for art stays here coalition | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brain Arts Organization Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Cambridge Community Foundation | Cambridge, MA | The bob moses fund for education and organizing | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Charles River Conservancy Inc | Cambridge, MA | General operating support | Environment | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Fractured Atlas | New York, NY | General operating support for cloth collaborative studio and workshop | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Masscreative Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Network of Engaged International Donors Global Inc | Boston, MA | Grant match challenge | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Network of Engaged International Donors Global Inc | Boston, MA | 2024 neid global changemaker gala, waiving all goods and services | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Non-Event Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | General operating support | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Resilient Sisterhood Project Inc | Cambridge, MA | General operating support | Diseases, disorders and medical disciplines | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Massachusetts Institute for A New Commonwealth Inc | Boston, MA | Commonwealth beacon's birth justice event, waiving all goods and services | Crime and legal-related | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Think Outside the Vox | Littleton, MA | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Urban Guild Inc | Dorchester, MA | General operating support | Community improvement and capacity building | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Urbano Project Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Us Biennial Inc | New Orleans, LA | Artists of public memory | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Cambridge Community Center Inc | Cambridge, MA | Annual fund | Human services | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Cambridge Historical Society | Cambridge, MA | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Gallery 263 Inc | Cambridge, MA | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Mobius Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support for digital soup | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Piano Craft Gallery Inc | Boston, MA | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Somerville Historical Society | Somerville, MA | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Tiny Seed Project | East Hardwick, VT | General operating support for danza organica | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Arts, culture and humanities | $2,697,222 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $2,300,000 |
| Education | $1,615,000 |
| Health care | $1,360,000 |
| Community improvement and capacity building | $662,000 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $465,000 |
| Human services | $365,000 |
| Employment | $250,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts | $10,155,000 |
| California | $675,000 |
| Illinois | $567,722 |
| New York | $441,500 |
| Pennsylvania | $170,000 |
| Virginia | $100,000 |
| Texas | $75,000 |
| Missouri | $75,000 |
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Updated November 13, 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.