- Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
- Culture, Education and Leadership Development
- Environment and Community Building
- The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists
- Memberships
- Discretionary Grants
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
Accion East
$10,000 – Brazilian Business Initiative
The ArtCouncil Inc.
d/b/a Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
$5,000 – Artadia Boston Awards
Businesses United in Investing Lending and Development (BUILD)
$10,000 – Youth Entrepreneurship
Center for Women and Enterprise
$7,500 – Entrepreneurship Training for Low-Income Women
Crittenton Women’s Union
$7,500 – Mobility Mentoring Services: Supporting Low-Income Women on their Journey to Self-Sufficiency
Interise
$5,000 – Boston StreetWise ‘MBA’
Mass Humanities
$3,000 – Clemente Course for the Humanities
More Than Words
$5,000 – Social Enterprise Job Training and Youth Development Program
Raw Art Works
$3,000 – Workforce Readiness Programming for At-risk High School Teens
Sociedad Latina
$7,500 – Workforce Development Expansion
Somali Development Center
$2,500 – Somali Girls Rise – Young Refugee Women
uAspire
$5,000 – uAspire Boston High School Advising Program
Upham’s Corner Community Center
$7,000 – Boys Glass Arts Entreprenuership
Year Up
$5,000 – General Operations
SUBTOTAL $83,000
Culture, Education, and Leadership Development
The American Indian College Fund
$10,000 – The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation Tribal Scholarship Program
America SCORES New England
$5,000 – America SCORES Boston Youth Development Programs
Apollinaire Theatre Company
$5,000 – Chelsea Youth Theatre
Associated Grant Makers
$12,000 – Summer Fund
Babson College
$10,000 – POSSE Scholarship Fund at Babson College
BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life)
$5,000 – BELL After School and Summer
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
$7,500 – Early Access to College Program
Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston
$5,000 – Victory Generation Out of School Time Program (VG)
Boston Partners in Education, Inc.
$7,500 – Math Rules!, 2014-2015
Bottom Line
$5,000 – Boston Access and Success Programs
Cristo Rey Boston High School
$4,000 – General Operations
Dorchester Youth Collaborative
$5,000 – DYC Democracy Club
Families United in Educational Leadership
$5,000 – Deepening engagement with parents
Generations Incorporated
$7,500 – Read to Succeed Literacy Programs (Classroom Literacy & Reading Coaches)
Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
$7,000 – Paths to College and Careers Program (PCCP)
Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program
$3,000 – General Operating and Program Support
Julie’s Family Learning Program
$4,000 – Adult and Children’s Services
Let’s Get Ready – Boston
$7,500 – Let’s Get Ready Greater Boston
LA PINATA
$3,000 – General Operating Support
Playworks Metro Boston
$7,500 – Playworks Massachusetts: Education Energized
Project Hope
$5,000 – Project Hope’s Children’s Services
Rediscovery at JRI
$6,000 – YouthHarbors
South End Technology Center @ Tent City
$10,000 – Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn
Sportsmen’s Tennis Club
$5,000 – Generating Excellent Mentors (GEM) Program
Strong Women, Strong Girls
$5,000 – Strong Women, Strong Girls
Summer Search
$8,000 – Scholarships for Summer Outdoor Adventure and Academic Programs
Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center
$7,000 – Connections 2014
YMCA of Greater Boston
$10,000 – Boston Police Department Campership Fund
ZUMIX
$6,000 – Hands-On Youth Development Program
SUBTOTAL $187,500
Environment and Community Building
Boston Natural Areas Network
$3,000 – 2014 Youth Conservation Corps
Franklin Park Coalition
$5,000 – Youth Conservation Crew
Groundwork Somerville
$5,000 – Somerville Food Network
Haley House, Inc.
$3,000 – McKinley Collaborative Garden
Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
$6,000 – Hyde Park Green Team
Victory Programs, Inc.
$5,000 – ReVision Urban Farm Food Security and Nutrition Education Initiative
SUBTOTAL $27,000
Special Emergency Grant
Boston Firefighter Credit Union
$5,000 – Lt. Walsh & Firefighter Kennedy Memorial Fund
SUBTOTAL $5,000
TOTAL COMPETITIVE $302,500
The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists (recipients mandated by donor)
Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
$12,093
Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,014 – Northeastern Regional Auditions
Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,388 – Lindemann Young Artist Development Program
TOTAL SABOFEA $29,495
Memberships
Associated Grant Makers
Boston, MA
$3,150 – 2014 Membership
Exponent Philanthropy
Washington, DC
$725 – 2014 Membership
Council on Foundations
Washington, DC
$1,230 – 2013 Membership
TOTAL MEMBERSHIPS $5,105
Discretionary Grants
350.ORG
$1,000 – Strategic campaigns to force politicians to rise to the challenge of our time
Achieve
$1,500 – General Operating Support
Alzheimer’s Association
$1,000 – For Research
American Cancer Society
$1,000 – Operating Support
American Friends of Christ Church
$8,000 – the Annual Fund operating costs
$4,000 – the Moritz Heyman Fund
American Friends Service Committee
$1,000 – Operating support
American Fund for Emmanuel
$12,000 – divided as needed between the Support Fund, the Gerard Evans Fund, and the Fund for Overseas Research.
Americans for Oxford, Inc.
f/b/o Wolfson College, University of Oxford, England
$2,000 – Graduate scholarships
Arlington Street Church
$5,000 – Building & grounds
Babson College
$1,000 – Operating Support of the Archive
$2,500 – PRIDE Alliance
$2,500 – OUT Network
BAGLY
$10,000 – To help meet $100,000 challenge match from the Kraft family’s foundation
Bay State Performing Arts
d/b/a Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
$10,000 – General Operating
$10,000 – Endowment
$1,500 – Travel Scholarships
Boston Arts Academy
$1,000 – Youth Scholarship “General Fund”
Boston Healthcare for the Homeless
$2,000 – Provision of essential resources to homeless families
Boston Public Library Foundation
$1,000 – Homework Programs at Branch Libraries
Boston Symphony Orchestra
$1,000 – Youth Programs
British Schools and Universities Foundation
f/b/o The Uppingham School, Rutland
$2,500 – Operating Support
Charles River Watershed Association
$1,000 – Clean-up of the river and kids programs
Children’s Aid Society
$1,000 – for the New York Times Neediest Families
Children’s Defense Fund
$1,000 – Freedom School programs
Clare College Cambridge
$2,000 – for studentships (for graduates) in honor of Professor Tony Badger’s retirement, Emeritus Master and Paul Mellon Professor of American History.
Corporate Angel Network
$2,000 – Provide children with cancer with transportation to and from treatment facilities
Cradles to Crayons
$2,000 – Operating
Crittenton Women’s Union
$2,000 – Horizon’s Transitional Housing Program
Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center
$2,000 – CMARS Program & Operating Support
Dana Hall School
$6,000 – Annual Fund
Deerfield Academy
$1,000 – Native American Alliance
Defenders of the Black Hills
$1,000 – Operating Support
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
$1,000 – General Operating Support
Elizabeth Stone House
$1,000 – Parent and Child Center
Emory University
$5,000 – Emory-Tibet Partnership (Operating support)
$1,000 – Undergraduate Scholarships
Environmental Defense Fund
$5,000 – Land, Water and Wildlife Program, Catalyst Group level
Esplanade Association
$1,000 – Planning and Support
Five College Program on Peace and World Security Studies
$2,500 – Operating support
Fonkoze USA
$2,000 – Haiti Relief
Friends of Copley Square
$1,000 – Operating Support
Friends of the Public Garden, Inc.
$1,000 – Operating Support
Friendship Home
$1,000 – General Operating Support
From the Top
$2,000 – Radio Program
Fund for Southern Communities
$1,500 – Grant Fund Pool
$1,000 – General Operating Support
Generations Inc.
$1,000 – Read to Succeed
Grassroots International
$2,000 – Operating Support
Haymarket People’s Fund
$5,000 – Grant fund pool
Historic Deerfield/SAB Fund
$3,000 – Children’s Programs
Human Rights Watch
$1,000 – Lois Whitman Fund
$3,000 – Childrens Rights Division
$2,000 – Disability Rights Division
$2,000 – Women’s Rights Division
Huntington Theatre Company
$1,500 – August Wilson Monologue competition
International Buddhist Center
$2,000 – Educational work in the US and Sri Lanka
International Rescue Committee (NYC)
$2,000 – Work with disabled refugees worldwide
International Rescue Committee (UK)
$1,000 – Work with Syrian refugees
La Piñata
$1,500 – Operating support
London School of Economics
$1,500 – LSE Centennial Fund
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
$2,000 – Operating Support
MA Center for Native American Awareness
$5,000 – Youth enrichment and empowerment program 2020 Focus
Massachusetts General Hospital
$500 – Alan D. Hilgenburg, MD, Lecture in Thoracic Aortic Disease
$500 – Thoracic Aortic Disease research
Massachusetts Historical Society
$2,000 – The Peter Gomes Memorial Book Prize fund
Miami University Foundation
$10,000 – The Ann Louise Wilkinson Scholarship
Mt. Toby Monthly Meeting
$1,000 – General Operating support
Museum of Fine Arts
$1,000 – Youth Programs
Museum of Science
$1,000 – Camp-in Program
Mystic Seaport
$1,000 – Children’s Education Programs
Natural Resources Defense Council
$5,000 – The campaign to stop the killing of elephants for the ivory trade, and work on water and climate change issues (in honor of President Frances Beinecke ‘s retirement)
NC FIELD Inc.
$1,000 – Campaign to eliminate child labor in tobacco
New England Buddhist Vihara & Meditation Center
$1,000 – General Support
$1,000 – The Meditation Building Fund
$500 – Parking Lot Maintenance
New England Disabled Sports
$1,000 – N.E. General Operations (as needed)
New Hampshire Public Television
$2,000 – Operating Support
Newton Cultural Alliance
$1,000 – Restoration of the historic Nathaniel Allen House in West Newton
Nipponzan Myohoji USA
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Leverett
$500 – Peace Pagoda, London
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Sri Lanka
$2,000 – Operating support
Nonviolent Peace Force
$1,000 – Protection of children in South Sudan
Oxfam America
$1,000 – General Operating Support
Partners Homecare & Hospice
$1,000 – In Home Hospice Programs
Peace Action Education Fund
$2,500 – Support of the student network S.P.A.N.
Perkins School for the Blind
$1,000 – Early Intervention and Guide Dog Programs
Phillips Academy
$5,000 – the Richard Babson ’76 Fund
Purple Hearts Homes
$1,000 – Veterans Home Ownership Program
Reach Out and Read
$1,000 – Boston Programs
Red Tomato
$1,000 – Operating support
Rosie’s Place
$1,000 – Shelter/Job Training
Sarvodaya USA (projects in Sri Lanka)
$1,000 – Sarvodaya Orphanage
$500 – Playgrounds
$500 – Permanent Housing
$1,500 – Sarvodaya Children’s Orphanage
School Year Abroad
$1,000 – General Operating
South Hadley Public Library
$2,500 – The Building Fund
Special Olympics
$2,000 – General Operations for programs in NE and NH
Stanford University
$10,000 – the President’s Fund
$5,000 – the Stanford Endowment Fund for Undergraduate Scholarships
Sunburst Youth Academy Foundation
$1,000 –Sunburst Cadets in the Sunburst Program
University of Virginia
$1,000 – Jefferson Literary & Debating Society for their endowment of Room #7
University of Virginia Law School Foundation
$2,500 – Operating Support
Veteran’s Education Project
$5,000 – Operating support
Visual Art Library, Inc.
$1,000 – General Operating Support
Walnut Hill School
$1,000 – Operating
Washington Buddhist Vihara
$1,000 – Educational work in Sri Lanka and in the U.S.
Wellesley Scholarship Foundation
$1,000 – P&E Scholarship Endowment
$1,000 – S&D Scholarship Endowment
WGBH
$2,000 – Children’s Programming
Zing Foundation f/b/o Arts Rising
$2,000 – Operating support
TOTAL DISCRETIONARY $255,000
2014 GRAND TOTAL $592,100