How much does Babbitt Family Charitable Trust give?

Babbitt Family Charitable Trust reported 44 grants totaling $277,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Babbitt Family Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (17%), Crime & Legal (10%).

Who are Babbitt Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kent Library Association Inc ($284k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($85k), Robin Hood Foundation ($80k).

Does Babbitt Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Babbitt Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Babbitt Family Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kent Presents Inc, The Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation, Charles & Jane Klein Family Fund.

Where is Babbitt Family Charitable Trust based?

Babbitt Family Charitable Trust is based in NY.

Babbitt Family Charitable Trust

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· 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.

$278k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$55k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$557kArts & Culture$333kCrime & Legal$190kInternational$155kPhilanthropy$112kEnvironment$103kHealth$89kFood & Nutrition$85kOther$0

02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k37 grants · $123k
$10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$50k–250k2 grants · $105k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
KENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION	$55,000
WESTBRIDGE RECOVERY FUND	$50,000
WQXR	$10,000
Doctors Without Borders	$10,000
Robin Hood Foundation	$10,000
WNET	$10,000
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND	$10,000
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER	$7,500
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY	$7,500
NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPM	$5,500
KENT LAND TRUST	$5,000
Aclu Foundation	$5,000
Refuge International	$5,000
Citymeals-on-Wheels	$5,000
City Harvest	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 61 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+102%

Still filing today

66%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

KL
KENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $284k · revenue +457%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +89%
RH
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +36%

Funded once

NS
NY STEM CELL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $10k
LE
LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICAgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +145%
KM
KEMPERER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
one grant, 2024 · $10k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

New York University

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.

Education

American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture

Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture

The Architectural League of New York

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…

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Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Nyu Langone Hospitals

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…

Health

Municipal Art Society of New York

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…

Arts & Culture

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; 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.

04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/53

Grantees still filing

39/53

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$860,854Education$433,663Arts & Culture$245,937Philanthropy$122,000International$89,000Food & Nutrition$85,000Environment$82,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kent Presents IncCT15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Babbitt Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Babbitt Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home