Announcing Our 2025 Grantee Partners — Over $475K in Grantmaking and Sponsorships

Boston Women’s Fund is excited to announce our 2025 grantee partners! Amid a year of unprecedented uncertainty for non-profit organizations, we are proud to reaffirm our commitment to grassroots organizations and the vital work they do in communities most impacted by injustice. 

This year, BWF has welcomed new grantee partners through our Movement Building and Youth-Centered Movement Building programs. We have also renewed our support of our 2024 Community Impact grantees. Fifteen of our grantee partners are returning partners, an emblem of our belief that sustained support for grassroots organizations is a part of the path to lasting change.

Our Momentum Grants are typically final funding for BWF grantee partners that have grown beyond a $500,000 operating budget. However, BWF has chosen to extend our support for last year’s Momentum Grantee partners for another year to aid in their weathering this unpredictable political and funding environment. 

In total, BWF has awarded over $475,700 in grants and sponsorships to 19 grassroots grantee partners and other organizations supporting women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals in Greater Boston.

“When I look at our grantee partners and the ways they double down and resist in the face of uncertainty, I think it emboldens us to follow suit. It’s never been more important to affirm BWF’s support of grassroots leaders and the work they do to get us all closer to liberation. The BWF team and I are honored to continue being a trusted partner and funder to our existing partners and to bring new organizations into the fold!” 

— Kiarah Hortance, Senior Program Associate, BWF

Our 2025 grantee partners represent each of BWF’s communities — women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals who are Black and Brown, LGBTQIA+, low-income, youth, elderly, immigrants, refugees, and disabled. From building people power through storytelling amongst undocumented youth to training women of color to join the healthcare field and combat medical discrimination, our grantee partners’ work is deeply intersectional and explores a variety of approaches to movement building and systems change. BWF is incredibly excited to continue our work uplifting, investing in, and building capacity for these innovative leaders over the years to come!

We are proud to support the following organizations as BWF’s 2025 grantee partners:

Abilities Dance Boston

Asian American Women's Political Initiative

Asian Women for Health

Association of Haitian Women in Boston

Birth Equity & Justice MA

Dominican Development Center

Essex County Community Organization

For Black Girls

Grimes King Foundation for the Elderly

Love Your Magic

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition

Matahari Women Workers' Center

Melanin Mass Moms

Propa City Community Outreach

Sisters Unchained

Small House

Somali Parents Advocacy Center for Education

Stories Inspiring Movements

Women Encouraging Empowerment

Bolstering Grassroots Power Through Sponsorships

We are excited to continue growing our sponsorship efforts and exploring micro grant opportunities with more grassroots and nonprofit organizations driving racial, economic, social, and gender justice in Greater Boston. This year, we have sponsored Resource Organizing Project and other grassroots organizations in hosting the Celebration of Grassroots Organizing, Trans Resistance MA in their 2025 Trans Pride Campaign, the LUCE Immigrant Justice Network, and many more! 

We’d like to recognize the following organizations that were finalists in our community-led Movement Building Grant process and received micro grants from BWF:

CHUANG Stage 

Center for Cooperative Development & Solidarity

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network

The following incredible youth-run organizations were finalists in our youth-led grantmaking selection process and received micro grants as well:

Revere Youth In Action

Young Queens Rising

BWF is also proud to have sponsored the following organizations:

Resource Organizing Project

Mass Mentoring Partnership 

Haymarket People's Fund Save Ourselves

Stories Inspiring Movements

Boston Education Fund 

Walker, Inc.

Abilities Dance 

GROWUP

Ruffen Fund

Trans Resistance MA

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