Competitive Grants

A Better City Initiative, Inc.
$4,000 – Engaging Businesses in Supporting Heat and Other Climate Resilience Solutions in Greater Boston

Boston Partners in Education
$3,000 – Academic Mentoring Support for Students in Boston Public Schools

Boston’s Higher Ground
$5,000 – NextGen Explorers

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

Climable, Inc
$3,000 – Community Center Resilience Hubs and Clean Energy Education

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

College for Social Innovation
$3,000 – CFSI Gap Semester & Bridge College Initiative

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

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

Groundwork Lawrence
$5,000 – Cultivate and Connect: A Community Garden Initiative

Haley House
$5,000 – Haley House Urban Agriculture

HarborCOV
$4,000 – General Operations in Support of Domestic Violence Survivors

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

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

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

Pathways for Children, Inc.
$3,000 – School Age Care Program

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

Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
$4,000 – Green Team Youth Job Readiness & Environmental Stewardship Program

Speak for the Trees
$5,000 – Summer 2025 Teen Urban Tree Corps (TUTC)

Union Capital Boston
$3,000 – Building Union Capital’s Grassroots Community Leadership Training Program

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

Wellspring House, Inc.
$5,000 – Ramping Up our Demonstrated Model of Educational and Career Advising for GHS Students

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

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

TOTAL SPRING 2025 COMPETITIVE GRANTS: $107,000

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 2025 ANNUAL GRANTS: $100,000