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The Boston Foundation Built a $2.6 Billion Machine for Giving - Then Pointed It at Boston’s Hardest Problems
Fintech · Social · Education

The Boston Foundation Built a $2.6 Billion Machine for Giving - Then Pointed It at Boston’s Hardest Problems

It looks after charitable money, but its real product is judgment: where Boston’s needs are sharpest, which local groups can respond, and how grants, research and policy can work together. In fiscal 2025, that judgment helped move $255 million through 12,472 grants.

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John T. Ehrbar
Executive · Operator

John T. Ehrbar

John T. Ehrbar is a career YMCA leader who, starting January 26, 2026, takes the helm as President and CEO of the YMCA of Silicon Valley after six years running YMCA Buffalo Niagara. He has spent over two decades inside the Y movement, climbing from a high school Leaders Club kid in northeast Ohio to running an 80-million-dollar nonprofit serving 2,300 staff across the Bay Area.

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