About Haymarket People's Fund
Haymarket People's Fund Inc centers its grantmaking on grassroots social change organizations in New England, with recent support repeatedly going to community organizers working on housing, workers’ rights, education justice, immigrant rights, and anti-racist organizing. The funder’s recent pattern shows a strong preference for organizations rooted in local campaigns and movement-building rather than one-off service delivery. Several of its larger recent grants went to groups such as Worcester Youth Cooperatives in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance in Providence, Rhode Island, both at $31,000 in 2024. In 2025, the foundation also backed the Center to Support Immigrant Organizing in Boston, the Mass Coalition of Domestic Workers in Allston, and the Muslim Justice League in Boston, each at $26,000. Other recent grantees include Springfield No One Leaves, Vermont Environmental Justice Network, Lynn Workers Center, Access Cooperatives, and Boston Education Justice Alliance. The overall picture is a regional funder that supports organizing infrastructure across New England, with repeated grants to groups working on neighborhood-level power, tenant and worker advocacy, and youth-led social justice campaigns.
What Haymarket People's Fund Funds
Housing and tenants’ rights appear through grants to Springfield No One Leaves, which received $26,000 in 2024 and again $26,000 in 2025, and to Comunidades Enraizadas Community Land Trust Inc in Chelsea, Massachusetts, which received $26,000 in 2025. Worker organizing is another recurring area: the Lynn Workers Center in Lynn, Massachusetts, received $26,000 in 2024, while Brockton Workers Alliance in Brockton received $26,000 in both 2024 and 2025. Education justice is present in support for the Boston Education Justice Alliance, which received $26,000 in both 2024 and 2025. The foundation also backed youth organizing through Worcester Youth Cooperatives in Worcester, which received $31,000 in 2024, and Revere Youth in Action, which received $25,000 in 2024.
How Haymarket People's Fund Gives
Typical grants cluster tightly around the mid-$20,000 range, with a p25 of $15,000, a median of $18,350, and a p75 of $22,000. Recent awards also show repeated support to the same organizations across 2024 and 2025, including Springfield No One Leaves, Brockton Workers Alliance, Boston Education Justice Alliance, and American Friends Service Committee Wabanaki Program, which points to ongoing rather than one-time engagement. Haymarket People's Fund Inc is a regular funder, and its active programs include Sustaining Grants of up to $20,000 and Urgent Response Grants of up to $5,000. Both programs are described as not accepting unsolicited applications.
