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