Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Massachusetts based Non Profit companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Non Profit industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Massachusetts Non Profit Startups
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EverTrue
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EverTrue is the leading vertical SaaS solution for philanthropic giving.
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital is the primary teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and a biomedical research facility.
Accion
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Accion is a global nonprofit that gives people access to financial tools needed to improve lives.
Gravyty
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Gravyty is an internet platform that enables nonprofit organizations to connect with potential donors.
Year Up
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Year Up is an organisation that provides urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support to reach their potential.
Boston Medical Center
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Boston Medical Center is a private, not-for-profit, academic medical center that provides its patients with trauma and emergency services.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a center dedicated to carrying out adult and pediatric cancer treatment activities and advanced research.
Jobs for the Future
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Jobs for the Future is non profit organization helping youth and adults preparing for college and career.
Social Finance
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Social Finance focuses on mobilizing capital to drive social progress.
RallyPoint
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RallyPoint is a social and professional network with 1.7 million members-enabling employers and advertisers to reach the military community.
GivingData
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GivingData is an enterprise-grade SaaS grants management solution for grantmaking organizations.
Cuseum
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Cuseum utilizes digital tools to help museums accelerate visitor and member engagement.
Education Development Center (EDC)
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EDC is a global nonprofit organization that designs, delivers and evaluates programs to address education, health and economic challenges.
MassRobotics
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MassRobotics is a nonprofit hub that provides labs and expensive equipment that startups need for testing and prototyping.
Jumpstart
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Jumpstart is working toward the day when every child in America enters school prepared to succeed.
Cortico
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Cortico is a nonprofit organization with the mission of fostering constructive public conversation in communities.
Garden Remedies
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Garden Remedies is a licensed, non-profit medical marijuana dispensary.
Givinga
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Givinga is a provider of financial technology platform for employers.
Community Healthlink
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Community Healthlink engages in promoting, restoring and maintaining the physical and mental health of adults, children and families.
Riverside Research
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Riverside Research is a non-profit scientific research institution.
MIT Solve
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Solve is an initiative of MIT that advances lasting solutions from tech entrepreneurs to address the world’s problems.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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Whitehead Institute is a research institution for human health.
Future of Life Institute
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The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies.
Hearth
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Hearth is an organization dedicated to the elimination of homelessness among the elderly
United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
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Financial Opportunity and Educational Success.
The Pan-Mass Challenge
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The Pan-Mass Challenge raises money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Seeding Labs
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Seeding Labs creates opportunities for scientists in the developing world to conduct world-class research.
NetClarity
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NetClarity is a provider of next-generation network access control (NAC) technology and products.
Draper
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Draper is a non-profit laboratory focused on applied research, engineering development, education, and technology transfer.
Action for Boston Community Development
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Action for Boston Community Development is a neighborhood-based nonprofit organization.
Epworth Children & Family Services
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Epworth Children & Family Services is an youth development service.
Harvard Management Company
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Harvard Management Company is an organization that manages the financial investments of the Harvard University.
Health Resources in Action
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Health Resources in Action is a nonprofit organization.
Prosperity Catalyst
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Prosperity Catalyst is a non-profit group providing entrepreneurial tools, training and community knowledge for women in distressed regions.
PowerOptions
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PowerOptions provides savings and predictability on energy costs to nonprofits and the public sector.
The Lawrence Partnership
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The Lawrence Partnership is a private/public sector collaboration for the economic development and improvement of the City of Lawrence.
National Braille Press
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National Braille Press empowers the blind and visually impaired with programs, materials, and technology supporting braille literacy
Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
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EMPath is an organization that helps families move out of poverty, for the expansion of its Career Family Opportunity Program
WorcLab
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WWorcLab is a clean tech oriented business incubator.
MITRE Corporation
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MITRE is a not-for-profit organization that operates research and development centers.
Fishing Partnership Support Services
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Fishing Partnership Support Services is a non-profit organization that supports the health and well-being of commercial fishing families.
Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company
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Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company provides electricity solutions along with resource & power supply planning services.
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC)
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Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) is to end sexual violence through healing and social change.
South Eastern Economic Development
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South Eastern Economic Development is a nonprofit corporation.
New England Clean Energy Council
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The New England Clean Energy Council offers educational programs and events that promote the clean energy economy.
The Mentor Network
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The MENTOR Network is a national network of local health care and human services provider.
Science Club for Girls (SCFG)
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Science Club for Girls (SCFG) has provided the very best in girls-specific programming by connecting girls in K-12 grades.
ActBlue
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ActBlue is nonprofit tech organization that builds fundraising tools for Democratic candidates, progressive causes, and nonprofits.
Catie’s Closet
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Catie’s Closet provides essential clothing and basic necessities to homeless students and those living below the poverty line.
Taunton Nursing Home
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Taunton Nursing Home is a non-profit healthcare facility that provides services for elders.
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC)
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Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) empowers Asians and new immigrants to build healthy families, achieve greater economic success.
Just-A-Start
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Just-A-Start is a community development firm that provides affordable housing, programs & educational programming services.
Partners In Development
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Partners In Development is an organization committed to education and economic advancement in the developing world.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is a state licensed private health insurance company
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
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Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation acts to build a strong, thriving, and diverse community.
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
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MIRA is the largest coalition in New England promoting the rights and integration of immigrants and refugees.
Affect
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Affect aims accelerate the innovations needed to provide every single person in the world with high quality mental healthcare.
NESCAUM
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NESCAUM is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit association of air quality agencies in the Northeast.
Lionheart Foundation
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Lionheart Foundation provides social emotional learning programs to incarcerated adults, youth at risk and teen parents.
Boston Public Library Foundation
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Boston Public Library Foundation is to raise public and private funds for the revitalization of the Boston Public Library.
Millennium Campus Network
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Millennium Campus Network is a Boston based global non profit training the next generation of social impact leaders.
ProBueno
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ProBueno is a platform to raise money for charity by offering talents in exchange for donations.
Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project (PAIR Project)
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PAIR Project provides free legal services to asylum seekers and promotes the rights of detained immigrants.
Tufts University
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Tufts is a private university that excels at research and is committed to providing students with a personal experience.
The FIDO Alliance
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FIDO Alliance is a non-profit organization that aims at changing the nature of online authentication.
Zumix
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Zumix provides free after school and summer enrichment programs for youth
La Alianza Hispana
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La Alianza Hispana aims to improve the lives of the Massachusetts Latino community, to support the Aliancianos Senior Center.
Lake Health Foundation
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Lake Health Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that serves the health and medical needs.
FriendshipWorks
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FriendshipWorks’s mission is to reduce social isolation, enhance quality of life, and preserve the dignity of older adults
Citizens Disability
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Citizens Disability is a legal services company that offers disability benefitsin Waltham.
Boston Police Athletic League (PAL)
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Boston Police Athletic League (PAL) is an independent non-profit organization.
Community Boat Building (CBB)
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Community Boat Building’s (CBB) mission is to bring real world experience and academic skills together.
Team IMPACT
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Team IMPACT is a national nonprofit that connects children facing serious and chronic illnesses with college athletic teams.
Stop Handgun Violence
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Stop Handgun Violence is a non profit organisation.
Project Alianza
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Project Alianza is an organization that provides primary school education to the children of coffee farmworkers.
Best Corp. Hospitality Training Center
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Best Corp. Hospitality Training Center is a non-profit workforce development program .
Lovin’ Spoonfuls
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Lovin’ Spoonfuls facilitates the rescue and distribution of perishable, prepared and unserved foods.
Ceres
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Ceres is a non-profit organization that advocates for sustainability leadership.
Seven Hills Foundation
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Seven Hills Foundation is a non-profit organization, supporting children and adults with physical, developmental, and other life challenges.
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
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Patrick J. McGovern Foundation supports pioneering neuroscience and information technology that helps humanity.
IFAW
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IFAW is a non-profit organization that saves individual animals, animal populations, and habitats all over the world.
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England
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Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England is a nonprofit organisation.
Technology Underwriting the Greater Good (TUGG)
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TUGG is dedicated to catalyzing and spreading social entrepreneurship in New England. By harnessing the power of the region’s technology
Object Management Group
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The Object Management Group® (OMG®) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit technology standards consortium.
The Achievement Network
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The Achievement Network is a nonprofit dedicated to educational equity in America.
Friends of the Boston Schoolyards (FOTBS)
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Friends of the Boston Schoolyards (FOTBS) is a non-profit corporation.
Mintz Levin
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Mintz Levin is a general practice, full service law firm servicing public corporations, privately held businesses and entrepreneurs.
Worcester Roots
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Worcester Roots is a “collective of youth and adult organizers on a mission to create opportunities for economic.
Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition
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Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition is an organization that aims to make healthy and affordable food.
Lynn Youth Street Outreach Advocacy (LYSOA)
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Lynn Youth Street Outreach Advocacy is an organization that empowers high-risk youth in their community
Represent.Us
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Represent.us is a non-partisan movement to pass city, state, and federal anti-corruption acts to end corruption.
Y2Y Harvard Square
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Y2Y Harvard Square a student-run overnight shelter, employs a youth-to-youth model to provide a safe.
Addgene
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Addgene is a non-profit plasmid repository that enables scientists to share their plasmids for free.
Health eVillages
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Health eVillages provides mobile health technology, including medical reference and clinical decision support for medical professionals.
Piers Park Sailing Center
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Piers Park Sailing Center (PPSC) is a 501(c)(3) community sailing center.
Lawyers for Civil Rights
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Lawyers for Civil Rights is a non-profit, non-partisan organization.
IDA
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IDA is an NGO that provides water reuse, renewable energy, training, desalination, water treatment and charity services.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is a non-profit ocean research, engineering and educational organization.
Lahey Clinic
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The Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, formerly known as Lahey Clinic, is a physician-led nonprofit teaching hospital of Tufts University
