About Gravestar Foundation C/O Gravestar
The Gravestar Foundation concentrates its limited grantmaking on food access and food-systems interventions in Massachusetts, favoring organizations that combine social enterprise and direct meal delivery. With two charitable grants totaling $95,000, the foundation prioritizes local food-sector organizations that address hunger and support community nutrition, particularly those providing kitchen capacity, workforce development, or medically tailored meal services.
Focus Areas
Social-enterprise commercial kitchens and food-business incubation (Commonwealth Kitchen-style organizations)Medically tailored meal delivery and nutrition services for people with serious illness (Community Servings-style providers)Greater Boston / Massachusetts food security and community nutrition organizations
Who They Fund
food entrepreneurs / small food businessespeople with serious illness requiring medically tailored mealsfood-insecure individuals and low-income households in Greater Boston / MassachusettsMassachusetts-based food access and community nutrition nonprofits (institutional beneficiaries)
About Gravestar Foundation C/O Gravestar
A $75,000 grant to Commonwealth Kitchen in Dorchester stands out as the largest recent award from Gravestar Foundation C/o Gravestar Inc, and it points to a clear preference for food access work that also builds local infrastructure. The foundation’s recent giving in Massachusetts favors organizations that connect direct service with community capacity, especially in food systems, hunger relief, and nutrition support. Community Servings Inc in Jamaica Plain received $20,000 in 2025, reinforcing that medically tailored meals are part of the mix. Other grants show the same local orientation: the foundation supports groups serving food-insecure households, people with serious illness, and organizations that help food entrepreneurs or small food businesses operate in shared kitchen settings. Its grant record is concentrated in Massachusetts, but the recent portfolio also reaches nearby communities in the region through a small number of grants outside the state. The foundation’s overall pattern is narrow rather than broad, with a small set of recurring themes and relatively modest awards outside the largest food-system grant.
What Gravestar Foundation C/O Gravestar Funds
Food access is the clearest thread in the foundation’s recent grantmaking. In 2023, it gave $10,000 to Sudbury Community Food Pantry in Sudbury and another $10,000 to Waltham Fields Community Farm in Waltham, showing support for both emergency food distribution and local food production. Community nutrition also appears through grants to Somerville-cambridge Elder Services in Somerville and Brookline Literacy Partnership in Brookline, each at $10,000 in 2023. The foundation also backs organizations that serve specific community needs beyond food alone, including $7,000 to Rise Above Foundation Inc in Northbridge and $7,000 to Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport in 2025. Its 2023 grant to City Year Inc in Boston suggests some flexibility within a broader local community-support pattern.
How Gravestar Foundation C/O Gravestar Gives
The typical award size is tightly clustered: p25 is $5,000, the median is $5,000, and p75 is $5,250. That distribution matches a grantmaker that usually writes small, targeted checks rather than large multi-award commitments. The recent record includes repeated support for some recipients across years, including Community Servings Inc in 2023 and 2025, Armenia Tree Project in 2024 and 2025, and Stoneham Community Access Tv in 2023 and 2024. The foundation appears to be a private charitable fund rather than an operating grantmaker with a broad application infrastructure, and one active program is an employee-designated charitable gift program. It does not make program-related investments or grants to individuals.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$471K
Total Assets
$2.6M
Total Revenue
$58K
Total Expenses
$160K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $5K, with a median of $5K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$5K
75th Percentile
$5K
Geographic Reach
Local6 states funded
About 82% of grants go to recipients in MA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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