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Babcock Charitable Trust

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2020
17
Grants FY2020
15
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$250,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$500,000
States reached, FY2020
4
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Babcock Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Allegheny County Parks Foundation$500,000131%
Audubon Society of Western Pa$500,000137%
Grove City College$350,00010%
Friends of Boca Grande Community Center Inc$250,000118%
Pittsburgh Youth Leadership$250,000174%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$250,00011%
Family House Inc$130,00014%
Reading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh$105,000110%
Gasparilla Isl Conser & Improve Assn$75,00014%
Second Harvest$75,00014%
Cr Jrs Chip$16,66711%
Merakey Allegheny Valley School$10,00010%
Fort Ligonier Association$10,00011%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($750k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Babcock Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAllegheny County Parks Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetAudubon Society of Western Pa: $500,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetGrove City College: $350,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Boca Grande Community Center Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPittsburgh Youth Leadership: $250,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFamily House Inc: $130,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetReading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh: $105,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetGasparilla Isl Conser & Improve Assn: $75,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSecond Harvest: $75,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCr Jrs Chip: $16,667 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMerakey Allegheny Valley School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFort Ligonier Association: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Hillman Family FoundationsPA21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Courtney Babcock Borntraeger Foundation · The Simpson Family Foundation U/A Dtd 10/19/1999 · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · Allegheny Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Grable Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Babcock Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Babcock Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Babcock Charitable Trust

How much does Babcock Charitable Trust give?
Babcock Charitable Trust reported 17 grants totaling $3,771,667 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Babcock Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Animals (20%), Philanthropy (20%), Environment (15%).
Who are Babcock Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Allegheny County Parks Foundation ($500k), Audubon Society of Western Pa ($500k), Grove City College ($350k).
Does Babcock Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Babcock Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Richard King Mellon Foundation.
Where is Babcock Charitable Trust based?
Babcock Charitable Trust is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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