· Private foundation
Babbitt Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $55,000 |
| WESTBRIDGE RECOVERY FUND | $50,000 |
| WQXR | $10,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $10,000 |
| WNET | $10,000 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $10,000 |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $7,500 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $7,500 |
| NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPM | $5,500 |
| NY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| City Harvest | $5,000 |
| Citymeals-on-Wheels | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
61 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- KLKENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $284k · revenue +457%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +89%- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- KMKEMPERER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTone grant, 2024 · $10k
- LELEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +145%
- NSNY STEM CELL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Kent Center School Scholarship Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KENT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Educational Innovation Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUGE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds HARLEM RBI INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS ON THE GREEN ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA TILLY RETTLER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Kent Presents Inc · The Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation · Charles & Jane Klein Family Fund · The Karlson Family Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · Weingarten Family Foundation · H & L Family Foundation Inc · The Jeff and Erica Keswin Family Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Babbitt Family Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- The Equus Effect Inc — 16% of income from government
- Civic Life Project Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.