Supporting Equitable Access to High-Quality Health Care Across Greater Boston
WESTWOOD, MA – The Trustees of the Yawkey Foundation today announced $720,000 in Program & Small Capital grants to health care nonprofit organizations in Greater Boston. These grants continue the philanthropic legacy of the Foundation’s founders, Jean and Tom Yawkey, and their enduring commitment to expanding access to quality medical care.
Since 1977, the Yawkey Foundation has invested more than $135 million in health care initiatives that strengthen care delivery and improve health outcomes across the communities the Yawkeys called home – Greater Boston and Georgetown, South Carolina.
“These organizations exemplify our Foundation’s core values by delivering compassionate, culturally responsive care to those who need it most,” said Alicia Verity, CEO of the Yawkey Foundation. “Through their vital work, they are helping to ensure that every individual, regardless of background or circumstances, can access the health care resources they need and deserve.”
These grants complement the Foundation’s 2025 Transformational Capital investments, including support for McLean Hospital’s state-of-the-art academic and residential campus dedicated to child and adolescent mental health, and Mass Eye and Ear’s Emergency Department renovation.
2025 Health Care Program & Small Capital Grant Recipients:
- American Heart Association/CPR Training for Youth Sports
- Boston Community Pediatrics
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
- Casa Esperanza
- Duffy Health Center
- Emerson Health Care Foundation
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Pan-Mass Challenge
Yawkey Foundation Program & Small Capital Grants support impactful nonprofit organizations in delivering on their core missions by funding innovative programming, vital small-scale projects, and essential equipment. Grant amounts typically reach up to $100,000 for immediate, discrete, time-bound initiatives that are critical to an organization’s work.
About the Yawkey Foundation
The Yawkey Foundation is dedicated to perpetuating Tom Yawkey’s and Jean Yawkey’s philanthropic legacy, whose eight decades of quiet generosity supported individuals and families in the communities closest to their hearts – Massachusetts and Georgetown County, South Carolina. Having awarded more than $600 million to date in charitable grants to organizations focused on health care, education, human services, youth and amateur athletics, arts and culture, and conservation and wildlife, the Yawkey Foundation is committed to preserving and sustaining the Yawkeys’ charitable values by investing in nonprofits that provide resources, opportunity, and dignity to the vulnerable and underserved.
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