About the Trust

The Forest Hills Educational Trust was founded to preserve, interpret, enhance, and celebrate Forest Hills Cemetery — a place of burial and remembrance that is also one of Boston’s most magnificent green spaces and resonant historic sites.

The Trust’s work is made possible through the generous support of Forest Hills Cemetery, individual donors, foundation and government grants, and local businesses. We are grateful to everyone who helps make this work possible.

Support the Trust

Forest Hills is a grand romantic landscape, a spectacular arboretum, an open-air museum, and an inspiring place of reflection — all in one. The Trust’s programs invite the public to discover and explore it all, from adventurous contemporary art exhibitions to newly conserved historic masterpieces, fascinating walking tours to top-quality concerts.

If you have enjoyed what Forest Hills has to offer — or if you have family or a loved one at rest here — we hope you will consider supporting our work. Individual contributions are essential to everything we do, and every gift is fully tax-deductible through our status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

You may also choose to honor or remember someone special by making a gift in their name. Those interested in underwriting specific initiatives are welcome to contact us directly at the main office.

Donations can be made securely online through Network for Good or by mailing a contribution by check.

Thank you for your support of the Trust’s innovative programs and Boston’s most beautiful and evocative historic landscape.

Words from Our Families and Friends

On a sunny winter day, when I seek solitude and deep reflection, I venture to the Forest Hills Cemetery. The snow-covered grounds, illuminated by the bright winter sun, sparkle with an ethereal light, giving the cemetery an almost serene, otherworldly beauty

Anthony P.

One of the biggest and most beautiful cemeteries in New England. Unique, well maintained, and plenty to see. Peaceful. I had a long ride to get here, so I was so happy they had a bathroom and it was clean lol.

Nicole N.

Was planning on going to a different cemetery while visiting Boston, but it was closed earlier than expected and I’m so glad. Forest hills was so beautiful. We followed the green line on the ground which led us to a really nice security guard who told us we could pull over anywhere so long as our car wasn’t on the grass

Ashley E.

I recently read about the lives of poets Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton. Since I’m in the 02321 for a house-sitting gig, I decided to pilgrimage to Sexton’s gravesite in Forest Hills cemetery–an absolute hidden gem (the cemetery, not the gravesite)

Susan R.