The Trustees of the Foley Hoag Foundation are pleased to announce that the Foundation has awarded grants totaling $115,000 to 18 organizations in June as part of the Foundation’s 2025 Spring grant cycle. The organizations that the Foundation has funded are all dedicated to working to improve social equity by increasing access to the arts, stimulating community engagement, providing legal services, improving access to affordable housing, offering educational programming and assistance, or running youth development programs. 

This grant round also represents an important milestone for the Foundation – our first grants to Denver-based organizations, underscoring firm’s ongoing commitment to community engagement and philanthropy.

The grantees of the Foundation’s 2025 Spring grant cycle are based in Boston, Denver, New York City, and Washington, D.C., and are as follows:

Boston Organizations

• Art Resource Collaborative for Kids: $7,500 to support ARCKfest, a series of one-day events where K-5 Boston Public School students participate in arts-integrated mutli-disciplinary workshops.
• BalletRox, Inc.: $7,500 to sustain and expand programming, provide high quality, accessible dance education to underserved youth in Boston, and ensure scholarships/support for all students in need.
• Dunamis, Inc.: $5,000 to support its Arts Management Apprenticeship and Emerging Artist Fellowship, which support individuals pursuing careers in Arts Management and the arts.
• Appollinaire Theatre Company: $7,500 to bridge the gap in reduced tuition for the Apollinaire Play Lab (APL) program, which offers a variety of classes to youth ages 3-12, including acting, dance, and visual art, as well as performance opportunities.
• Bride Forward, Inc.: $7,500 to support the Economic Prosperity Project, which provides small grants and multi-year financial coaching and education to people living just above the poverty line in Greater Boston.
• Massachusetts Action for Justice: $5,000 to support its Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative, specifically the Boston Desegregation Mobile Bus Museum to educate students on this history.
• Communities for Restorative Justice: $7,500 for general operating expenses in support of the expansion of restorative justice initiatives in Suffolk County and to increase access to C4RJ as a court-alternative in communities that have been negatively impacted by the legal system historically.
• Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice, Inc.: $5,000 to expand their UMass Boston program training students to assist pro bono immigration attorneys and organize around immigration issues.
• Concrete LYFE: $7,500 to provide resources to young people in the LYFE Academy (ages 17-24) for business startups, licenses, certifications, scholarships, stipends, workshops, supplies, and transportation to create opportunities for long-term success.
• The Welcome Project: $5,000 to support the Liaison Interpreter Program of Somerville (LIPS), which provides bilingual immigrant youth with specialized interpreter training, paid workforce experience, and leadership development.

Denver Organizations

• Art from Ashes: $5,000 to support 16 “Pheonix Rising” workshops to engage BIPOC and LGBT+ youth with art and literacy tools that assist in emotional healing, trauma processing, and overall social-emotional well-being.
• Rebuilding Together Colorado: $7,500 to support its Emergency Home Repair Program, which provides free emergency and critical home repairs to low-income homeowners—primarily older adults, people with disabilities, veterans, and people of color—in the Denver metro area.
• The Colorado Lawyers Committee: $5,000 to collect and analyze statewide data on the overuse of threat assessments by school districts to circumvent due process requirements for expulsion, which has a disproportionate impact on marginalized students.

New York City Organizations

• LGBT+VC: $7,500 to empower LGBTQ+ students (many of them first-generation and from communities of color) with tools, training, and networks to access opportunity, build wealth, and shape the future of innovation and equity.
• YA-YA Network: $5,000 to provide critical stipends for BIPOC youth in its Empower Fellowship program, a leadership pipeline that transforms marginalized teens into powerful organizers for social justice through hands-on advocacy training in popular education workshops.

Washington D.C. Organizations

• Girls Rock! DC: $7,500 to expand its Summer Camp from 150 to 200 participants, providing an additional 50 DC youth from underrepresented backgrounds access to music education and a safe, empowering environment.
• District of Columbia Students Construction Trades Foundation: $7,500 for its summer internship program stipends to ensure enrolled students can stay involved in Construction Trades Foundation programming.
• Girls on the Run: $5,000 to provide scholarships for 36 girls to participate in their Fall 2025 “Empower Her: Strength Through Running and Mentorship” program and extend their family involvement pilot program to an additional 20 families this year.