2016 Grants

Competitive Grants

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

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

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

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

Associated Grant Makers
$12,000 – Summer Fund

BalletRox
$2,000 – BalletRox Dance! Community Dance Program

BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life)
$2,000 – After School & Summer programs

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

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

Boston Debate League
$2,000 – Leadership Empowerment and Action Program Council (LEAP)

The Boston Education Development Foundation
$3,000 – Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program

Boston Local Development Corp
$7,000 – Financial Check-up Program

Boston Partners in Education
$4,000 – Accelerate Math

Boston Private Industry Council
$4,000 – Financial Services Training

Bottom Line
$3,000 – Access and Success Programs

Bridge Over Troubled Waters
$1,000 – General Operating Fund

BUILD – Greater Boston
$10,000 – Youth Entrepreneurship

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

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

College Bound Dorchester Inc.
$4,000 – College Connections, MAP

Community Art Center, Inc.
$2,000 – Teen Media Program

Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc
$2,500 – CinemaTec

Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
$4,000 – Mobility Mentoring® Services

Environment Massachusetts Research and Policy Center
$5,000 – Students for 100% Renewable Energy

EVKids, Inc
$6,000 – Afterschool Program-Year Four

Freedom House, Inc.
$6,000 – Success in Higher Education

Gedakina, Inc
$3,000 – Braiding Sweetgrass

Generations Incorporated
$5,000 – Generations Incorporated

Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
$4,000 – Ocean Maker’s Space at Maritime Gloucester

Haley House, Inc.
$4,000 – Urban Agriculture at Haley House

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

Hawthorne Youth and Community Center Incorporated
$4,000 – General Operating

Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
$5,000 – Pathways to College and Careers Program

IC Foundation
$3,000 – Investors’ Circle Boston Local Network

International Institute of Boston Inc.
$5,000 – Refugee Employment Services

Inversant Inc.
$4,000 – Expanding our Outreach

Jeremiah Program
$3,000 – Two-Gen Pathways to Success

Jewish Vocational Service Inc.
$5,000 – Pharmacy Technician Certification

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

Lena Park Community Development Corp
$3,000 – Youth Development Program

Let’s Get Ready
$4,000 – Let’s Get Ready Greater Boston

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
$2,000 – Clemente Course in the Humanities Dorchester

Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
$2,000 – The Path to Zero Waste

More Than Words Inc.
$3,000 – Social Enterprise Youth Development

Mystic Learning Center, Inc.
$5,000 – Books Of Hope

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing
$5,000 – Green Youth Leadership Crew

New Economy Coalition, Inc.
$4,000 – CommonBound 2016

New England Center for Arts & Technology Inc.
$4,000 – Culinary Arts Job Training Program

Noonan Scholars
$7,000 – General Operating Funds

Nubian United Benevolent International Association
$3,000 – Youth Summer Gardening

Playworks Education Energized
$5,000 – Education Energized, Metro Boston

Project Hope
$5,000 – Family Child Care Business Enterprise

Raw Art Works
$4,000 – Youth Employment and Workforce Readiness Programming

Scholar Athletes, Inc.
$3,000 – Boston Intramural Program

Sociedad Latina
$5,000 – Workforce Development Pathway

South Street Youth Center
$4,000 – South Street Clubhouse

Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
$7,500 – 2017 Green Team

St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children
$3,000 – GRLZradio.org

Strong Women, Strong Girls
$5,000 – Core and Junior Mentor Programs

Summer Search
$5,000 – Summer Outdoor Adventure and Academic Programs

Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center, Inc.
$3,000 – Connections

uAspire
$3,000 – College Affordability Advising – Greater Boston

United South End Settlements
$3,000 – Arts in Early Learning

Urban Farming Institute of Boston
$7,500 – The next crop of urban farmers

The Urbano Project
$5,000 – Youth Arts Programming

Victory Programs, Inc.
$5,000 – ReVision  Project

Wellspring House, Inc.
$5,000 – WERC Youth

West End House Boys & Girls Club
$1,000 – Career Development and Youth Employment

Year Up
$3,000 – Year Up Boston

YMCA of Greater Boston
$8,000 – Boston Police Department Campership Fund

ZUMIX
$6,000 – Hands-on youth development program

TOTAL 2016 COMPETITIVE:  $313,500

 

Memberships

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

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

TOTAL MEMBERSHIPS:  $3,940

 

The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists

Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
$12,906

Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,351 – Northeastern Regional Auditions
$13,221 – Lindemann Young Artist Development Program

TOTAL SABOFEA: $31,478

 

Discretionary Grants

350.ORG
$1,000 – Strategic campaigns to force politicians to rise to the challenges of our time

Alzheimer’s Association
$1,000 – Research

American Cancer Society
$1,000 – General operations

American Friends of Christ Church, Inc.
f/b/o Christ Church, Oxford England
$8,000 – General operations
$2,000 – Mortiz Heyman Fund for Young Alumni

American Friends Service Committee
$1,000 – General operations

The American Fund for LSE
f/b/o London School of Economics
$1,000 – General operations

Americans for Oxford, Inc.
f/b/o Wolfson College, Oxford, England
$1,000 – Post-graduate scholarships

Arlington Street Church
$5,000 – Building & grounds

Asian University for Women Support Foundation
$1,000 – Asian University for Women

Babson College
$2,500 – PRIDE Alliance
$2,500 – OUT Network
$2,000 – General operations of the archives

Bay State Performing Arts
d/b/a Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
$10,000 – General operations
$10,000 – Endowment
$5,000 – August match

Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc.
$2,000 – Provision of essential resources to homeless families

Boston Public Library Foundation Inc.
$1,000 – Homework programs at branch libraries

Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc.
$1,000 – Youth programs

British Schools and Universities Foundation
f/b/o Uppingham School
$2,000 – General operations and scholarships

Cambridge in America
f/b/o Clare College, Cambridge, England
$1,000 – Post-graduate scholarships

Center for Khmer Studies
$1,000 – General operations

Charles River Watershed Association
$1,000 – Clean-up of the river and kids programs

Children’s Defense Fund
$1,000 – Outreach to community youth activists, or Freedom Schools at Haley Farm

Commonwealth Zoological Corporation
d/b/a Zoo New England
$2,000 – General operations for Franklin Park Zoo and Stone Zoo

Corporate Angel Network Inc.
$2,000 – Transportation to and from treatment facilities for children with cancer

Crittenton Women’s Union Inc.
$2,000 – Horizon’s Transitional Housing Program

Crotched Mountain Foundation
$1,000 – CMARS Program & general operations

Dana Hall School
$10,000 – Annual Fund

Danforth Museum Corp
$1,000 – General operations

Defenders of the Black Hills
$1,000 – General operations

Dexter Southfield Inc.
$1,000 – General operations
$1,000 – The Rainbow Café (GSA)

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Inc.
$1,000 – General operations

Elizabeth Stone House Inc.
$1,000 – Parent and Child Center

Emory University
$5,000 – Emory-Tibet Partnership
$1,000 – Undergraduate scholarships

Environmental Defense Fund, Inc.
$6,000 – Action work (High Meadows year-end matching grant)

Esplanade Association Inc.
$1,000 – Planning and support

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

Fonkoze USA
$2,000 – Haiti relief

Friends of Copley Square Inc.
$1,000 – General operations

Friends of the Public Garden
$1,000 – General operations

Friends of the South Hadley Public Library System
$2,500 – The Building Fund/General operations

From the Top, Inc.
$2,000 – Radio Program

Fund for Southern Communities
$1,500 – Grant fund pool

Generations Incorporated
$1,000 – General operations

Grassroots International
$2,000 – General operations

Greater Lowell Community Foundation
$1,000 – Tom Leggatt Fund

Haymarket People’s Fund
$5,000 – Grant fund pool

Hearth, Inc.
$1,000 – Outreach program

Historic Deerfield Inc.
$5,000 – SAB Fund/children’s programs

Human Rights Watch, Inc.
Children’s Rights Division
$1,000 – Lois Whitman Fund
$2,000 – Education for Syrian children in the Middle East

Human Rights Watch, Inc.
Refugee Rights Division
$2,000 – Access to education for disabled refugee children worldwide

Human Rights Watch, Inc.
Disability Rights Division
$2,000 – Promoting rights and dignity for the disabled and mentally ill

International Buddhist Center
$2,000 – Work for flood victims in Sri Lanka
$1,000 – Educational work with youth in the U.S.

International Rescue Committee, Inc.
$5,000 – Work with Syrian refugees overseas and in the U.S.

Jefferson Literary and Debating Society
$2,000 – General operations

La Piñata Latin American Cultural Families Network
$1,500 – General operations

Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
$2,000 – General operations

MA Center for Native American Awareness
$5,000 – Youth enrichment and empowerment program 2020 Focus

Massachusetts Audubon Society
$1,000 – Boston Nature Center

Massachusetts Historical Society
$1,000 – Peter Gomes Memorial Book Prize

Miami University Foundation, Inc.
$5,000 – Ann Louise Wilkinson Scholarship

Mt. Toby Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends
$1,000 – General operations

Museum of Fine Arts
$1,000 – Youth programs

Museum of Science
$1,000 – Camp-in program

New England Blacks in Philanthropy
$1,000 – General operations

New England Buddhist Vihara & Meditation Center
$4,000 – Meditation Building Fund

New Hampshire Public Broadcasting
$2,000 – General operations

Nipponzan Myohoji New Enland Sangha
$2,000 – General operations

Nipponzan Myohoji USA
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Leverett
$500 – Peace Pagoda, London
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Sri Lanka

Noble & Greenough School
$1,000 – Achieve

Nonviolent Peace Force
$1,000 – Protection of children in South Sudan

Partners Healthcare at Home
$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
$1,000 – Transition program

Petey Greene Program
$1,000 – General operations

Purple Hearts Homes
$1,000 – Disabled Veterans Home Ownership Program

Red Tomato
$1,000 – General operations

Rosie’s Place Inc.
$1,000 – Shelter/Job Training

Sarvodaya USA
$2,000 – Children’s Orphanage in Sri Lanka
$500 – Playgrounds in Sri Lanka
$500 – Permanent housing in Sri Lanka

School Year Abroad Inc.
$1,000 – General operations

Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc.
$1,000 – Year-end gift match for the Annual Fund Campaign

Special Olympics, Inc.
$2,000 – General operations for programs in NE and NH

Stanford University
$1,000 – in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Michelle R. Clayman Center for Gender Research

Stanford University
$12,000 – Stanford Fund for Undergraduate Education

True Story
f/b/o Arts Rising
$2,000 – General operations

Trustees of Deerfield Academy
$1,000 – Native American Alliance

Trustees of Phillips Academy
$7,000 – Richard Babson ’76 Fund

University of Virginia Law School Foundation
$5,000 – General operations and Law School scholarships where needed

Veteran’s Education Project Inc
$5,000 – General operations

Wellesley Scholarship Foundation Inc.
$1,000 – Paul and Edith Babson Scholarship Endowment
$1,000 – Susan and Donald Babson Scholarship Endowment

WGBH Educational Foundation
$2,000 – Children’s programming

Women’s Refugee Commission, Inc.
$1,000 – Rights and justice work for women and children in detention and seeking asylum

TOTAL 2016 DISCRETIONARY:  $230,000

2016 GRAND TOTAL:  $578,918