Competitive Grants
Accion East Inc.
$6,000 – Brazilian Business Initiative
America SCORES New England
$5,000 – Boston Youth Development Program
American Indian College Fund
$10,000 – The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation Tribal Scholarship Program
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
$2,000 – Art & Dialogue: Boston
Asian American Civic Association, Inc.
$4,000 – Youth Employment Center
Associated Grant Makers
$12,000 – Summer Fund
Babson College
$10,000 – Posse Scholarship Fund and Summer Venture Program
BalletRox
$1,000 – BalletRox Dance! Community Dance Program
BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life)
$4,000 – After School and Summer
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
$5,000 – Expanded Early Access to College Program
Bird Street Community Center
$5,000 – Entrepreneurship: Boys Glass Arts
Boston Baroque, Inc.
$3,000 – Free Community Concerts and Classics for Kids
The Boston Education Development Foundation Inc.
f/b/o Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program
$5,000 – Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program and Dudamel Initative
Boston Earned Income Tax Credit Coalition
$7,500 – Financial Check-up Program
Boston Partners in Education, Inc.
$4,000 – Math Rules!
Boston Scholar Athlete Program Inc.
$1,000 – Intramural Program
Bottom Line, Inc.
$5,000 – Boston Access and Success Programs
Businesses United in Investing Lending and Development
$10,000 – Youth Entrepreneurship
Career Collaborative, Inc.
$4,000 – Ending Poverty With Good Jobs
Center for Women & Enterprises Inc.
$5,000 – Entrepreneurship Training for Low-Income Women
College Bound Dorchester
$4,000 – College Connections
Community Service Care
f/b/o South Street Youth Center
$4,000 – South Street Youth Center
Compass Working Capital, Inc.
$5,000 – Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program
Cristo Rey Boston High School
$5,000 – Nonprofit Placements for Student Workers
Crittenton Women’s Union Inc.
$4,000 – Mobility Mentoring® Services
Earthen Vessels Inc.
$5,000 – Expanding Horizons: Growing EV’s Successful Afterschool Program
Emmanuel Gospel Center Inc.
$3,000 – Boston Church-School Partnership Project
Foundation for Metrowest
$5,000 – Fund for Wellesley (year 4 of 5)
Franklin Park Coalition
$7,500 – Youth Engagement & Conservation
Generations Incorporated
$5,000 – General Operations
Haley House, Inc.
$4,000 – Thornton Farm: Urban Agriculture Learning Lab
Haven Project, Inc.
$4,000 – Haven Project
Historic Boston Incorporated
$7,500 – Rehabilitation of the Fowler-Clark-Epstein Farm in Mattapan
Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
$4,000 – Paths to College and Careers Program (PCCP)
Institute for Policy Studies
$5,000 – Program on Inequality and the Common Good
Inversant Inc.
$4,000 – Expanding program presence and technology outreach
Investors’ Circle Foundation
$2,000 – Boston Local Network
Julie’s Family Learning Program Inc.
$5,000 – Adult and Children’s Services
La Piñata
$3,000 – General Operating Support
Madison Park Development Corporation
$5,000 – Dudley Square: From Food Desert to Food Oasis
Massachusetts Foundation For The Humanities
$1,000 – Clemente Course in the Humanities – Dorchester and Brockton
More Than Words, Inc.
$4,000 – Social Enterprise Youth Development Program
Mystic Learning Center, Inc.
$3,000 – Books Of Hope
New England Center for Arts & Technology
$5,000 – Culinary Arts Job Training Program
Playworks Education Energized
$5,000 – Education Energized
Raw Art Works
$5,000 – Workforce Readiness Programming for Underserved High School Teens
Sociedad Latina
$5,000 – Workforce Development Expansion
Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
$7,500 – 2016 Hyde Park Green Team
Strong Women, Strong Girls Inc.
$4,000 – Mentoring program for elementary & junior high girls
Summer Search
$6,000 – Summer Outdoor Adventure or Academic Trips
Tent City Corporation
f/b/o South End Technology Center
$10,000 – Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Program
Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center
$5,000 – Connections: STEM Learning to Empower Urban Youth
uAspire
$5,000 – Boston High School Advising Program
United Nations Association of Greater Boston Inc
$4,000 – Model UN/Education Programs
Urban Farming Institute of Boston
$7,500 – Urban Farming Institute of Boston, Inc.
Victory Programs, Inc.
$5,000 – ReVision Urban Farm Food Insecurity Reduction and Nutrition Education Initiative
Year Up
$3,000 – Year UP Boston
YMCA of Greater Boston
$10,000 – Boston Police Department Campership Fund
ZUMIX
$6,000 – Hands-On Youth Development Program
TOTAL 2015 COMPETITIVE: $295,500
Memberships
Associated Grant Makers
Boston, MA
$2,500 – Membership
Council on Foundations
Washington, DC
$1,440 – Membership
Exponent Philanthropy
Washington, DC
$1,500 – 2015 & 2016 Membership
TOTAL MEMBERSHIPS: $5,440
The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists
Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
$12,565
Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,210 – Northeastern Regional Auditions
Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,872 – Lindemann Young Artist Development Program
TOTAL SABOFEA: $30,647
Discretionary Grants
350.ORG
$1,000 – Strategic campaigns to force politicians to rise to the challenge of our time
Achieve
$1,500 – General Operating Support
Alzheimer’s Association
$1,000 – For Research
American Cancer Society
$1,000 – Operating Support
American Friends of Christ Church
$8,000 – the Annual Fund operating costs
$4,000 – the Moritz Heyman Fund
American Friends Service Committee
$1,000 – Operating support
American Fund for Emmanuel
$12,000 – divided as needed between the Support Fund, the Gerard Evans Fund, and the Fund for Overseas Research.
Americans for Oxford, Inc.
f/b/o Wolfson College, University of Oxford, England
$2,000 – Graduate scholarships
Arlington Street Church
$5,000 – Building & grounds
Babson College
$1,000 – Operating Support of the Archive
$2,500 – PRIDE Alliance
$2,500 – OUT Network
BAGLY
$10,000 – To help meet $100,000 challenge match from the Kraft family’s foundation
Bay State Performing Arts
d/b/a Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
$10,000 – General Operating
$10,000 – Endowment
$1,500 – Travel Scholarships
Boston Arts Academy
$1,000 – Youth Scholarship “General Fund”
Boston Healthcare for the Homeless
$2,000 – Provision of essential resources to homeless families
Boston Public Library Foundation
$1,000 – Homework Programs at Branch Libraries
Boston Symphony Orchestra
$1,000 – Youth Programs
British Schools and Universities Foundation
f/b/o The Uppingham School, Rutland
$2,500 – Operating Support
Charles River Watershed Association
$1,000 – Clean-up of the river and kids programs
Children’s Aid Society
$1,000 – for the New York Times Neediest Families
Children’s Defense Fund
$1,000 – Freedom School programs
Clare College Cambridge
$2,000 – for studentships (for graduates) in honor of Professor Tony Badger’s retirement, Emeritus Master and Paul Mellon Professor of American History.
Corporate Angel Network
$2,000 – Provide children with cancer with transportation to and from treatment facilities
Cradles to Crayons
$2,000 – Operating
Crittenton Women’s Union
$2,000 – Horizon’s Transitional Housing Program
Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center
$2,000 – CMARS Program & Operating Support
Dana Hall School
$6,000 – Annual Fund
Deerfield Academy
$1,000 – Native American Alliance
Defenders of the Black Hills
$1,000 – Operating Support
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
$1,000 – General Operating Support
Elizabeth Stone House
$1,000 – Parent and Child Center
Emory University
$5,000 – Emory-Tibet Partnership (Operating support)
$1,000 – Undergraduate Scholarships
Environmental Defense Fund
$5,000 – Land, Water and Wildlife Program, Catalyst Group level
Five Colleges
$2,500 – Program on Peace and World Security Studies
Esplanade Association
$1,000 – Planning and Support
Fonkoze USA
$2,000 – Haiti Relief
Friends of Copley Square
$1,000 – Operating Support
Friends of the Public Garden, Inc.
$1,000 – Operating Support
Friendship Home
$1,000 – General Operating Support
From the Top
$2,000 – Radio Program
Fund for Southern Communities
$1,500 – Grant Fund Pool
$1,000 – General Operating Support
Generations Inc.
$1,000 – Read to Succeed
Grassroots International
$2,000 – Operating Support
Haymarket People’s Fund
$5,000 – Grant fund pool
Historic Deerfield/SAB Fund
$3,000 – Children’s Programs
Human Rights Watch
$1,000 – Lois Whitman Fund
$3,000 – Childrens Rights Division
$2,000 – Disability Rights Division
$2,000 – Women’s Rights Division
Huntington Theatre Company
$1,500 – August Wilson Monologue competition
International Buddhist Center
$2,000 – Educational work in the US and Sri Lanka
International Rescue Committee (NYC)
$2,000 – Work with disabled refugees worldwide
International Rescue Committee (UK)
$1,000 – Work with Syrian refugees
La Piñata
$1,500 – Operating support
London School of Economics
$1,500 – LSE Centennial Fund
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
$2,000 – Operating Support
MA Center for Native American Awareness
$5,000 – Youth enrichment and empowerment program 2020 Focus
Massachusetts General Hospital
$500 – Alan D. Hilgenburg, MD, Lecture in Thoracic Aortic Disease
$500 – Thoracic Aortic Disease research
Massachusetts Historical Society
$2,000 – The Peter Gomes Memorial Book Prize fund
Miami University Foundation
$10,000 – The Ann Louise Wilkinson Scholarship
Mt. Toby Monthly Meeting
$1,000 – General Operating support
Museum of Fine Arts
$1,000 – Youth Programs
Museum of Science
$1,000 – Camp-in Program
Mystic Seaport
$1,000 – Children’s Education Programs
Natural Resources Defense Council
$5,000 – The campaign to stop the killing of elephants for the ivory trade, and work on water and climate change issues (in honor of President Frances Beinecke ‘s retirement)
NC FIELD Inc.
$1,000 – Campaign to eliminate child labor in tobacco
New England Buddhist Vihara & Meditation Center
$1,000 – General Support
$1,000 – The Meditation Building Fund
$500 – Parking Lot Maintenance
New England Disabled Sports
$1,000 – N.E. General Operations (as needed)
New Hampshire Public Television
$2,000 – Operating Support
Newton Cultural Alliance
$1,000 – Restoration of the historic Nathaniel Allen House in West Newton
Nipponzan Myohoji USA
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Leverett
$500 – Peace Pagoda, London
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Sri Lanka
$2,000 – Operating support
Nonviolent Peace Force
$1,000 – Protection of children in South Sudan
Oxfam America
$1,000 – General Operating Support
Partners Homecare & Hospice
$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
Phillips Academy
$5,000 – the Richard Babson ’76 Fund
Purple Hearts Homes
$1,000 – Veterans Home Ownership Program
Reach Out and Read
$1,000 – Boston Programs
Red Tomato
$1,000 – Operating support
Rosie’s Place
$1,000 – Shelter/Job Training
Sarvodaya USA
$1,000 – Sarvodaya Orphanage
$500 – Playgrounds
$500 – Permanent Housing
$1,500 – Sarvodaya Children’s Orphanage
School Year Abroad
$1,000 – General Operating
South Hadley Public Library
$2,500 – The Building Fund
Special Olympics
$2,000 – General Operations for programs in NE and NH
Stanford University
$10,000 – the President’s Fund
$5,000 – the Stanford Endowment Fund for Undergraduate Scholarships
Sunburst Youth Academy Foundation
$1,000 –Sunburst Cadets in the Sunburst Program
University of Virginia
$1,000 – Jefferson Literary & Debating Society for their endowment of Room #7
University of Virginia Law School Foundation
$2,500 – Operating Support
Veteran’s Education Project
$5,000 – Operating support
Visual Art Library, Inc.
$1,000 – General Operating Support
Walnut Hill School
$1,000 – Operating
Washington Buddhist Vihara
$1,000 – Educational work in Sri Lanka and in the U.S.
Wellesley Scholarship Foundation
$1,000 – P&E Scholarship Endowment
$1,000 – S&D Scholarship Endowment
WGBH
$2,000 – Children’s Programming
Zing Foundation
f/b/o Arts Rising
$2,000 – Operating support
TOTAL 2015 DISCRETIONARY: $230,000
2015 GRAND TOTAL: $561,587