The Latino Equity Fund (LEF) at the Boston Foundation is the first and only community fund in Massachusetts dedicated to activating, convening, and supporting the Latinx community in Greater Boston and across the Commonwealth. Established in 2013, LEF serves as a permanent resource to uplift Latinx voices, foster cross-sector partnerships, and advance systemic change. The Fund works to mobilize Latinx residents, nonprofit organizations, and community leaders toward Nuestro Futuro—Our Future.
About this Application Cycle
For the FY26 grant cycle, LEF will award one-time $25,000 grants to 20 Latinx-serving nonprofit organizations within the Boston Foundation’s catchment area. LEF seeks proposals from community-based nonprofits advancing the well-being and economic mobility of Latinx residents in the following priority areas:
Basic needs:
- Housing stability
- Food security
- Health care access (including, but not limited to: disabilities assistance, HIV prevention, elder care, mental health and well-being, and substance use)
- Legal aid
Economic Mobility:
- Job readiness and career coaching
- ESOL and Language access
- Immigrant/refugee workforce integration
- Professional credentialing and certification
With its grantmaking, LEF strives to catalyze new partnerships, support and expand the capacity of the Latinx nonprofit sector and respond to emerging community needs. LEF prioritizes supporting Latinx-serving organizations, and organizations that have not previously received funding from TBF/LEF.
Geographic Funding Areas
The Latino Equity Fund funds within the Boston Foundation’s catchment area which includes:
- Essex County
- Middlesex County
- Suffolk County
- Plymouth County
- Norfolk County
The Latino Equity Fund aims to support truly local organizations. Accordingly, an applicant must:
- Be headquartered in the geographic areas listed above
- Provide the majority of its services in the geographic areas listed above
- Not maintain offices or provide services outside Massachusetts
- Not be regional, national, or international (even if based locally)
- Not be a local office/affiliate of a regional or national organization, unless it has its own EIN
All funding requests should focus exclusively on operations within geographic areas listed above.