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Babbitt Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$400
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$175
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Food & Nutrition$11kEducation$7kHuman Services$6kInternational$5kCommunity Improvement$5kAnimals$5kArts & Culture$5kEmployment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25
Median grant
2
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Goodwill$175
AMVETS$125
CJSC Humo Bank$25
Individual grant recipient$25
Kashf Foundation$25
Individual grant recipient$25
02The need
03

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 US giving — 65% of grant dollars ($31k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 35% that went abroad ($16k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%The Conversation: $100 → 16%Omaha Jitterbugs: $4k → 12%The Deming Institute: $100 → 7%Foundation for Critical Thinking: $40 → 8%Kiva: $1k → 10%Corning Community Food Pantry: $3k → 13%AMVETS: $125 → 13%Second Time Around Thrift: $323 → 14%Megan Rathbun: $2k → 15%THE GULLAH MUSEUM: $1k → 15%Goodwill of Greater Washington DC: $118 → 14%Goodwill: $175 → 8%Alliance for Better Nonprofits: $56 → 12%Zidisha: $4k → 4%Goodwill Industries of Kentucky: $1k → 15%Omaha Jitterbugs: $150 → 12%Kiva: $100 → 10%Corning Community Food Pantry: $3k → 13%Goodwill of Western New York: $72 → 13%The National Soaring Museum: $220 → 15%Zidisha: $373 → 4%GOODWILL INC: $731 → 15%Sing Omaha: $3k → 12%KIVA: $76 → 10%Corning Community Food Pantry: $3k → 13%ZIDISHA: $53 → 4%Corning Community Food Pantry: $2k → 13%Corning Community Food Pantry: $289 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
NE
KY
VA
TN
SC
DC

Beyond the US — 35% of all-years giving ($16k)

8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$12k · 3 grants
Israel$4k · 1 grant
Philippines$50 · 1 grant
Ecuador$40 · 1 grant
Sierra Leone$25 · 1 grant
Pakistan$25 · 1 grant
Tajikistan$25 · 1 grant
Liberia$25 · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 15% of Babbitt Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Babbitt Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 30% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22k · 4 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +126% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
22

Total granted

$22k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+126%
+36%

Still filing today

25%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

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

  • CC
    Corning Community Food Pantry
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +126%
  • OB
    Old Brewery Mission
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k
  • ZI
    ZIDISHA INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $4k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • OJ
    OMAHA JITTERBUGSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +60%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $4k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Kobo Inc

Kobo's mission is to empower individuals and organizations to generate insights and make informed decisions that drive positive change around the world.

International
2
Internet Archive

Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build an Internet library with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format including texts, audio, movies,…

Human Services
3
Musopen

Musopen is a 501c3 non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, music applications and educational materials to the public for free,…

Arts & Culture
4
Global Investigative Journalism Network Inc

To support the training and sharing of information among journalists worldwide in investigative and computer-assisted reporting.

Arts & Culture
5
Kinosaito Inc

Kinosaito inc has undertaken the responsibility, purpose and mission of stimulating, promoting and developing the interest of the american public in the fine arts as well as dramatic and ther performance arts.

Arts & Culture
6
Knowledge Standards Foundation

Make the encyclosphere the universal network of encyclopedias. the encylosphere is a network of encyclopedias presently existing and future, large and small. encyclopedia articles are to the encylosphere what blog posts are to the…

Education
7
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
8
International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation

The ifrs foundation's mission is to develop ifrs standards that bring transparency, accountability and efficiency to capital markets around the world. our work serves the public interest by fostering trust, growth and long-term financial…

Community Improvement
9
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
10
Nanban Foundation

Nanban foundation strives to provide free, high-quality financial education for all. the organization functions with the support of volunteers united by one common goal: knowledge sharing. embracing online education, we invite people of…

Education
11
Microfinance Opportunities
Education
12
Disinformation Index Inc

Disinformation index is a nonpartisan organization that combats disinformation both in the united states and globally through the creation of public ratings of media sources that assess their disinformation risk using objective criteria.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Critical Thinking. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Old Brewery Mission — $6,650 · OtherOld Brewery MissionIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $4,493 · OtherIndividual grant recipientZIDISHA INC — $4,005 · OtherZIDISHA INCIndividual grant recipient — $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE GULLAH MUSEUM — $1,299 · OtherGOODWILL INC — $906 · Other+16 more — $1,741 · Other+16 moreCorning Community Food Pantry — $10,314 · Food & NutritionCorning Community Food P…OMAHA JITTERBUGS — $4,501 · Arts & CultureOMAHA JITTERBUGSSINGOMAHA INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureSINGOMAHA INC+2 more — $260 · Arts & CultureGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC — $1,344 · EmploymentKIVA MICROFUNDS — $1,176 · InternationalDONORSCHOOSEORG — $841 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $100 · Education
Other$25,594Food & Nutrition$10,314Arts & Culture$7,761Employment$1,344International$1,176Education$941

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCorning Community Food Pantry — $10,314 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetOMAHA JITTERBUGS — $4,501 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetSINGOMAHA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC — $1,344 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS — $1,176 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $841 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SOARING MUSEUM — $220 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR BETTER NONPROFITS — $56 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CRITICAL THINKING — $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Corning Community Food Pantry
  • Who funds OMAHA JITTERBUGS
  • Who funds ZIDISHA INC
  • Who funds SINGOMAHA INC
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC
  • Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG
  • Who funds NATIONAL SOARING MUSEUM
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR BETTER NONPROFITS
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CRITICAL THINKING

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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