2015 Grants

Competitive Grants

Accion East Inc.
$6,000 – Brazilian Business Initiative

America SCORES New England
$5,000 – Boston Youth Development Program

American Indian College Fund
$10,000 – The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation Tribal Scholarship Program

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
$2,000 – Art & Dialogue: Boston

Asian American Civic Association, Inc.
$4,000 – Youth Employment Center

Associated Grant Makers
$12,000 – Summer Fund

Babson College
$10,000 – Posse Scholarship Fund and Summer Venture Program

BalletRox
$1,000 – BalletRox Dance! Community Dance Program

BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life)
$4,000 – After School and Summer

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
$5,000 – Expanded Early Access to College Program

Bird Street Community Center
$5,000 – Entrepreneurship: Boys Glass Arts

Boston Baroque, Inc.
$3,000 – Free Community Concerts and Classics for Kids

The Boston Education Development Foundation Inc.
f/b/o Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program
$5,000 – Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program and Dudamel Initative

Boston Earned Income Tax Credit Coalition
$7,500 – Financial Check-up Program

Boston Partners in Education, Inc.
$4,000 – Math Rules!

Boston Scholar Athlete Program Inc.
$1,000 – Intramural Program

Bottom Line, Inc.
$5,000 – Boston Access and Success Programs

Businesses United in Investing Lending and Development
$10,000 – Youth Entrepreneurship

Career Collaborative, Inc.
$4,000 – Ending Poverty With Good Jobs

Center for Women & Enterprises Inc.
$5,000 – Entrepreneurship Training for Low-Income Women

College Bound Dorchester
$4,000 – College Connections

Community Service Care
f/b/o South Street Youth Center
$4,000 – South Street Youth Center

Compass Working Capital, Inc.
$5,000 – Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program

Cristo Rey Boston High School
$5,000 – Nonprofit Placements for Student Workers

Crittenton Women’s Union Inc.
$4,000 – Mobility Mentoring® Services

Earthen Vessels Inc.
$5,000 – Expanding Horizons: Growing EV’s Successful Afterschool Program

Emmanuel Gospel Center Inc.
$3,000 – Boston Church-School Partnership Project

Foundation for Metrowest
$5,000 – Fund for Wellesley (year 4 of 5)

Franklin Park Coalition
$7,500 – Youth Engagement & Conservation

Generations Incorporated
$5,000 – General Operations

Haley House, Inc.
$4,000 – Thornton Farm: Urban Agriculture Learning Lab

Haven Project, Inc.
$4,000 – Haven Project

Historic Boston Incorporated
$7,500 – Rehabilitation of the Fowler-Clark-Epstein Farm in Mattapan

Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
$4,000 – Paths to College and Careers Program (PCCP)

Institute for Policy Studies
$5,000 – Program on Inequality and the Common Good

Inversant Inc.
$4,000 – Expanding program presence and technology outreach

Investors’ Circle Foundation
$2,000 – Boston Local Network

Julie’s Family Learning Program Inc.
$5,000 – Adult and Children’s Services

La Piñata
$3,000 – General Operating Support

Madison Park Development Corporation
$5,000 – Dudley Square: From Food Desert to Food Oasis

Massachusetts Foundation For The Humanities
$1,000 – Clemente Course in the Humanities – Dorchester and Brockton

More Than Words, Inc.
$4,000 – Social Enterprise Youth Development Program

Mystic Learning Center, Inc.
$3,000 – Books Of Hope

New England Center for Arts & Technology
$5,000 – Culinary Arts Job Training Program

Playworks Education Energized
$5,000 – Education Energized

Raw Art Works
$5,000 – Workforce Readiness Programming for Underserved High School Teens

Sociedad Latina
$5,000 – Workforce Development Expansion

Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
$7,500 – 2016 Hyde Park Green Team

Strong Women, Strong Girls Inc.
$4,000 – Mentoring program for elementary & junior high girls

Summer Search
$6,000 – Summer Outdoor Adventure or Academic Trips

Tent City Corporation
f/b/o South End Technology Center
$10,000 – Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Program

Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center
$5,000 – Connections: STEM Learning to Empower Urban Youth

uAspire
$5,000 – Boston High School Advising Program

United Nations Association of Greater Boston Inc
$4,000 – Model UN/Education Programs

Urban Farming Institute of Boston
$7,500 – Urban Farming Institute of Boston, Inc.

Victory Programs, Inc.
$5,000 – ReVision Urban Farm Food Insecurity Reduction and Nutrition Education Initiative

Year Up
$3,000 – Year UP Boston

YMCA of Greater Boston
$10,000 – Boston Police Department Campership Fund

ZUMIX
$6,000 – Hands-On Youth Development Program

TOTAL 2015 COMPETITIVE:   $295,500

 

Memberships

Associated Grant Makers
Boston, MA
$2,500 – Membership

Council on Foundations
Washington, DC
$1,440 – Membership

Exponent Philanthropy
Washington, DC
$1,500 – 2015 & 2016 Membership

TOTAL MEMBERSHIPS:  $5,440

 

The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists

Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
$12,565

Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,210 – Northeastern Regional Auditions

Metropolitan Opera, Inc. 
New York, NY
$12,872 – Lindemann Young Artist Development Program

TOTAL SABOFEA: $30,647

 

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

Five Colleges
$2,500 – Program on Peace and World Security Studies

Esplanade Association
$1,000 – Planning and 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 
$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 2015 DISCRETIONARY:  $230,000

2015 GRAND TOTAL:  $561,587