BANK OF AMERICA BOSTON MARATHON OFFICIAL CHARITY PROGRAM
BANK OF AMERICA BOSTON MARATHON OFFICIAL CHARITY PROGRAM
AT THE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, WE INVEST IN THE COMMUNITIES WHERE WE LIVE AND WORK
Through the Bank of America Boston Marathon Official Charity Program, the B.A.A. provides invitational entries to the Boston Marathon to select non-profit organizations. Non-profit organizations use these entries to recruit athletes who pledge to raise funds for their cause. For selection into the Bank of America Boston Marathon Official Charity Program, the B.A.A. greatly values organizations that focus on building healthy communities.
For information about the 2026 B.A.A. Gives Back Marathon Team, click here.
2026 BANK OF AMERICA BOSTON MARATHON OFFICIAL CHARITY PROGRAM
The B.A.A. is proud to have the following nonprofit organizations as members of the 2026 Bank of America Boston Marathon Official Charity Program (in alphabetical order):
261 Fearless | Visit Website | Contact | ||
50 Legs in 50 Days | Visit Website | Contact | ||
A Leg Forever Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Abby Mac Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Achilles International - Boston | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Adaptive Sports New England | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Agassiz Village Founded by Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Burroughs | Visit Website | Contact | ||
ALS Therapy Development Institute | Visit Website | Contact | ||
ALSAC/St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Alzheimer's Association MA/NH Chapter | Visit Website | Contact | ||
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention - Massachusetts | Visit Website | Contact | ||
American Heart Association | Visit Website | Contact | ||
American Liver Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
American Red Cross | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Back On My Feet | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Bay Cove Human Services, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Bay State Games | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Best Buddies Massachusetts & Rhode Island | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Beth Israel Lahey Health | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Bionic Project, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Black Girls RUN! Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Blood Cancer United (Formerly LLS) | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Athletic Academy | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Athletic Association | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Bruins Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Bulldogs Running Club | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation | - | - | ||
Boston Children's Hospital | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Community Pediatrics | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston MedFlight | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Medical Center | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE, Inc.) | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Police Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Public Library Fund | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Scores | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boston Theater Company | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Bottom Line | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boys & Girls Club of Boston | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Boys & Girls Club of Dorchester | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Brain Aneurysm Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Breakthrough T1D | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Stepping Strong Team | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Brittany Fund for Trauma and Recovery | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Cameron M. Neely For Cancer Care, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Camp Casco | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Camp Harbor View Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Camp Shriver at UMass Boston | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Cardinal Cushing Centers | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Caring for a Cure | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Casa Myrna Vasquez, Inc. | - | - | ||
Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound School | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Charles River Watershed Association | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk County | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Colin's Joy Project | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Community Rowing, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Cops for Kids with Cancer, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Corey C. Griffin Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Cradles to Crayons | Visit Website | Contact | ||
CYCLE Kids Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Dave McGillivray Finish Strong Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
David Ortiz Children's Fund | Visit Website | Contact | ||
DetecTogether | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Doc Wayne Youth Services | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Dream Big! | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Ellie Fund | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Esplanade Association | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Every Mother Counts | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Expect Miracles Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Family Reach | Visit Website | Contact | ||
FamilyAid Boston | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Fast Feet Running and Athletics, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Fenway Health | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Fisher House Boston | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Franciscan Children's Hospital | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Girls on the Run Boston | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Golf Fights Cancer | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Good Shepherd Community Care |
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Good Sports | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Gronk Nation Youth Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Hale Education, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Haymakers for Hope | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Healthworks Community Fitness | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Herren Project | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Homes For Our Troops | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Horizons for Homeless Children | Visit Website | Contact | ||
House of Possibilities | Visit Website | Contact | ||
IMPACT Melanoma | Visit Website | Contact | ||
In My Running Shoes | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Include U: The Play Brigade | Visit Website | Contact | ||
InnerCity Weightlifting | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Joe Andruzzi Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
John M. Barry Boys & Girls Club of Newton | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Journey Forward | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Light Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Lingzi Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Mass Eye and Ear | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Mass Mentoring Partnership | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Mass. Assoc. for the Blind and Visually Impaired | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Massachusetts General Hospital | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Matt Brown Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
McLean Hospital | Visit Website | Contact | ||
MEB Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
MetroWest YMCA | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Michael Lisnow Respite Center | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Minds Matter Boston | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Muscular Dystrophy Association | Visit Website | Contact | ||
National Braille Press | Visit Website | Contact | ||
National Multiple Sclerosis Society | Visit Website | Contact | ||
National Ovarian Cancer Coalition: Massachusetts Chapter | Visit Website | Contact | ||
New England Center and Home for Veterans | Visit Website | Contact | ||
New England Center for Children | Visit Website | Contact | ||
New England Patriots Charitable Foundation, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Newton-Wellesley Hospital | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Next Step Fund | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Officer Sean A. Collier Memorial Fund, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
One Mission | Visit Website | Contact | ||
One Summit, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
One World Strong Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Pedro Martinez Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Pine Street Inn | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Play Ball Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Project Hope Boston | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Project Purple | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Rebekah's Angels Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Red Sox Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Rosie's Place | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Roxbury Community College Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Runway for Recovery | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Samaritans, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Semper Fi & America's Fund | Visit Website | Contact | ||
SG United Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Silver Lining Mentoring | Visit Website | Contact | ||
South Boston Neighborhood House | Visit Website | Contact | ||
South Shore Health (South Shore Hospital, Inc.) | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Spaulding Rehabilitation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Special Olympics Massachusetts | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Spoonfuls | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Squashbusters | Visit Website | Contact | ||
St. Francis House | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Stride for Stride | Visit Website | Contact | ||
TargetCancer Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Team IMPACT | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Tedy's Team | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Tenacity, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The ALS Association | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Bill Belichick Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Born to Run Foundation, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Boston Foundation, Krystle Campbell Memorial Fund | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Boys and Girls Club of MetroWest | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Children's Room | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Dimock Center | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Greater Boston Food Bank, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Heather Abbott Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Home for Little Wanderers | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Hoyt Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The James Gang | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The McCourt Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Progeria Research Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The ReM.A.R.C.able Foundation Network | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Skating Club of Boston | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Sports Museum | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The Webb Norden Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
The3PointFoundation, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Trinity Boston Connects | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Tufts Medical Center | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Tufts University | Visit Website | Contact | ||
UMass Chan Medical School Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
United Service Organizations Incorporated (USO) | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Vanessa T. Marcotte Foundation | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Walker Therapeutic and Educational Programs | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Waypoint Adventure Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
West End House Boys & Girls Club | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Women's Lunch Place | Visit Website | Contact | ||
World Central Kitchen | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Year Up | Visit Website | Contact | ||
YMCA of Greater Boston | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Youth Advocacy Foundation, Inc. | Visit Website | Contact | ||
Youth Enrichment Services (YES) | Visit Website | Contact |