Competitive Grants

Apprentice Learning
$5,000 – Career Exploration for Middle School

Backyard Growers
$5,000 – Creating a more equitable local food system through Backyard Grocery

A Better City Initiative, Inc
$5,000 – Leveraging the Private Sector to Support Community-Based Heat Solutions

Bikes Not Bombs, Inc.
$5,000 – Youth Pathways

Boston Building Resources – Reuse Center
$5,000 – Reuse Center Operations

Boston Debate League
$5,000 – After-School Debate Program

Boston Partners in Education
$5,000 – Academic Mentoring Support for Students in Boston Public Schools

Boston’s Higher Ground
$5,000 – Surround Care Coalition Out of School Time Program

Boy With a Ball Boston
$5,000 – Love Your City, Boston

Breaktime United, Inc.
$5,000 – Operational Support for Young Adults in the Breaktime Program

Brighter Boston
$5,000 – Brighter Boston Operations

Carroll Center for the Blind
$4,000 – Comprehensive Vision Services for Youth with Blindness or Low Vision

Casa Myrna Vasquez
$5,000 – Building Economic Stability for Youth Survivors of Domestic, Dating, and Family Violence

Clean Water Fund
$5,000 – Supporting the Next Generation of Climate Leaders

Codman Square Health Center
$5,000 – Promoting Equity, Economic Empowerment & Healthcare Careers in Codman Youth Summer Intern Program

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
$5,000 – Micro-enterprise Start-Up Technical Assistance and Lending Program

Emerald Necklace Conservancy
$5,000 – Expanding Community Engagement in Boston’s Largest Park System

Emerge
$5,000 – Counseling Scholarship Program

Enroot, Inc.
$2,500 – Enroot FY25 Explore, Leadership, Emerge, and Pathways to Success Programming for Immigrant Students

Entrepreneurship for All
$5,000 – EforAll Merrimack Valley: Expanding Access to Inclusive Entrepreneurship Training

EVkids Inc.
$5,000 – Inspiring Connections: Tutoring and Mentoring for Underserved Boston Youth

Family & Children’s Service of Greater Lynn d/b/a LifeScene
$5,000 – Project Success

The Food Project
$5,000 – Greater Boston Youth Development Programs

Found in Translation
$5,000 – Found in Translation’s Language Access Fellowship

Friends of the Children-Boston
$5,000 – Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Incentive-Based Savings Program

Future Chefs
$5,000 – FC Delivers

Haley House
$5,000 – Thornton Street Farm

International Institute of New England
$5,000 – IINE-Boston’s Comprehensive Career Services for Refugees and Immigrants

Jeremiah Program
$5,000 – Economic Mobility through Postsecondary Education for Boston Single Mothers

La Colaborativa
$5,000 – Youth Job Training in Chelsea

LEAP for Education Inc.
$5,000 – Paid Summer Work, Career Mentorships, and Project-Based Career Learning for Low-Income Teens

Madison Park Development Corporation (MPDC)
$5,000 – 2025 Roxbury Community Garden Initiative

More Than Words
$5,000 – More Than Words General Operating Support

Mothers for Justice and Equality
$5,000 – MJE Youth Mental Health Change Agent Team

Mystic Learning Center, Inc.
$2,500 – Books of Hope

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing
$5,000- NOAH Youth Leadership Development Crew (N-Yo)

Partners for Youth with Disabilities
$5,000 – Career Readiness

Project HOPE Boston
$5,000 – Family Childcare Network

Raw Art Works
$5,000 – Arts-Based Teen Employment and Workforce Readiness Training for Underserved Youth

Root NS, Inc.
$5,000 – Culinary Training and Alumni Employment Programs

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
$5,000 – 2025 Youth Job and Leadership Training Program

Sociedad Latina
$5,000 – Pathways to Success

Speak for the Trees
$5,000 – Summer 2024 Teen Urban Tree Corps (TUTC)

Summer Search
$5,000 – Transformative Summer Experiences for High School Students

Trust for Public Land
$5,000 – Archdale Community Park

Urban Farming Institute
$5,000 – Urban Farming Institute General Operations

Waltham Fields Community Farm
$5,000 – Youth Education and Teen Corps Programs

Wellspring House, Inc.
$5,000 – Wellspring’s Career Pathways Program at Gloucester High School

Whittier Street Health Center
$5,000 – Whittier Street Health Center’s Youth Pathway Program

WriteBoston
$5,000 – Teens in Print: Catalyzing Teen Voices in Journalism

YMCA of Metro North
$5,000 – Demakes Family YMCA Hunger Prevention Program

ZUMIX
$5,000 – Hands on Creative Youth Development Program

TOTAL 2024 COMPETITIVE GRANTS: $254,000

Annual Grants Program
Beginning in 2024, the Foundation approved three-year grants to the following organizations:

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

Center for Women & Enterprise
$10,000 – General Operating Support

Cultural Survival
$5,000 – General Operating Support

English for New Bostonians
$5,000 – Workforce Training

Futures Without Violence
$10,000 – General Operating Support

Hyde Square Task Force
$10,000 – Jóvenes en Acción/Youth in Action (JEA)

Mystic River Watershed Association
$10,000 – General Operating Support

Native Land Conservancy
$5,000 – Jaime Memorial Grant

Perkins School for the Blind
$5,000 – General Operating Support

Philanthropy Massachusetts
$10,000 – The Summer Fund

Sandy Hook Promise
$10,000 – General Operating Support

YMCA Greater Boston
$10,000 – Boston Police Department/YMCA Campership Program

TOTAL 2024 ANNUAL GRANTS: $100,000