Cummings Foundation
Now one of the largest private foundations in New England, the Woburn-based Cummings Foundation has awarded $500 million in grants to Greater Boston nonprofits alone. The Foundation supports a broad range of causes, including human services, education, healthcare, and social justice. As a place-based philanthropic initiative, the annual Cummings $30 Million Grant Program seeks to support nonprofits in eastern Massachusetts' Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk counties and the Norfolk County cities of Brookline, Dedham, Milton, Needham, Quincy, and Wellesley. Each year, this program awards 150 grants to a diverse group of organizations. These awards include 125 three-year grants of $30,000–$300,000 each, plus 25 ten-year grants of up to $1,000,000 each.
The Cummings Foundation provided a multi-year capacity building award to The Loop Lab in 2022. The Foundation’s support has helped The Loop Lab build needed staff capacity as we prepare for program growth in the upcoming years.
Cabot Family Charitable Trust
As a long-standing philanthropy based in Boston, The Cabot Family Charitable Trust makes grants to nonprofit organizations in the city of Boston and contiguous communities, as well as to organizations in which Cabot family members maintain philanthropic interest. The Trust’s priorities include arts and culture, education and youth development, environment and conservation, health and human services, and for civic and public benefit. Within these fields, as appropriate, the trustees prefer programs mainly serving youth and young adults, with a special interest in programs focused on ensuring the healthy growth and development of infants and young children, as a foundation for their future success.
The Cabot Family Charitable Trust supports The Loop Lab Academy’s highly regarded and growing Media Arts Apprenticeship Program. We greatly appreciate their generous support.
The capacity building and operating support provided by both foundations, in partnership with our other Greater Boston area philanthropic supporters, has helped Loop Lab Academy to formally establish our Media Arts Apprenticeship education and training program operations in downtown Boston. On behalf of the board, staff and apprentices that we serve, we would like to sincerely thank both foundations for their timely and critical philanthropic support of The Loop Lab.