The Boston Foundation
Greater Boston's community foundation, pooling donors' resources and civic research to drive equity, opportunity, and systemic change across the region.
Peer societies
Five societies The Boston Foundation is read alongside.
CCT
Chicago Community Trust
A century old community foundation that pools the region's philanthropy and directs more than a billion…
CF
Cleveland Foundation
The nation's first community foundation, working with donors to build community endowment, address needs…
NYCT
New York Community Trust
New York's largest community foundation, a century-old vessel holding thousands of separate charitable wishes…
PF
Pittsburgh Foundation
One of the country's oldest community foundations, stewarding nearly three thousand donor funds since 1945 to…
HFPG
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
The community foundation for Greater Hartford, marking a century of partnering with donors and nonprofits…
7 companies named
Who backs BF
No public supporter list found as of September 2026.
Who backs The Boston Foundation's peers, but not The Boston Foundation
Companies named publicly by at least one of The Boston Foundation's five peer societies, and not found in The Boston Foundation's reviewed public records.
| Company | HFPG | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| CVS Aetna | Named | 1 of 1 |
| fairview capital | Named | 1 of 1 |
| Shipman | Named | 1 of 1 |
| The Hartford | Named | 1 of 1 |
| Travelers | Named | 1 of 1 |
| turn two | Named | 1 of 1 |
| Whittlesey | Named | 1 of 1 |
The outside view
Greater Boston's community foundation, pooling donors' resources and civic research to drive equity, opportunity, and systemic change across the region.
- Consensus
- Build
- Outward
- Operational
Their shape
The Republic
Run by its members, built to outlast them.
The Republic runs like a well-built institution, professional and stable, under the guidance of its members. Its gift is scale and continuity, its challenge is staying close to the grassroots as it grows.
Also reads toward The Parliament and The Village.
Strengths
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