Competitive Grants
La Colaborativa
$5,000- Building Futures: Entrepreneurship and Career Pathways for Immigrant Youth
Madison Park Development Corporation
$5,000- 2026 Roxbury Community Garden Initiative
Mothers for Justice and Equality
$5,000- MJE Youth Education Programs
Backyard Growers
$5,000- Expanding Our Impact: Building a More Equitable Local Food System Through the Backyard Growcery
Bikes Not Bombs, Inc.
$5,000- Youth Pathways
Boston Food Forest Coalition
$5,000- Expansion of BFFC Food Forests across disadvantaged Boston neighborhoods
Carroll Center for the Blind
$5,000- Comprehensive Vision Services for Children and Youth with Blindness or Low Vision
Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation
$5,000- Oasis at Ballou – Urban Agriculture and Community Engagement
Emerald Necklace Conservatory
$5,000- Nurturing the Emerald Necklace’s Canopy and Community
Entrepreneurship for All
$5,000- Entrepreneurship for All: Expanding Inclusive Business Education in Greater Boston
Future Chefs
$5,000- FC Delivers
Jeremiah Program
$5,000- College Credentialing and Economic Mobility for Boston Single Mothers and Their Children
Partners for Youth with Disabilities
$5,000- Career Readiness
RESPOND Inc.
$5,000- Emergency Shelter Program
Root NS, Inc.
$5,000- Culinary Training & Alumni Employment Programs
East Boston Social Centers
$5,000- Eastie Achievers
Green Cambridge
$5,000- Green Cambridge Youth Career Pathways Programming
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
$5,000- 2026 Youth Jobs and Leadership Training Program
Waltham Fields Community Farm
$5,000- Youth Education and Teen Corps Programs on an Urban Farm
Boston Debate League
$5,000- After-school Debate
Enroot, Inc.
$5,000- Enroot FY26 Success Labs Programming for Immigrant Students
EVkids, Inc.
$5,000- Community Connections: Skills-based Mentoring for Underserved Boston Youth
NeighborHealth
$5,000- NeighborHealth Wellness Garden
YMCA of MetroNorth
$5,000- Demakes Family YMCA Hunger Prevention Program
Runway for Recovery
$2,000- Improving the Lives of High-Need Families Affected by Breast Cancer in Greater Boston
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 2025 COMPETITIVE GRANTS: $229,000
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