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Lawrence T Babbio Jr Foundation at a glance

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Lawrence T Babbio Jr Foundation

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.

$781k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$460k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Science & Tech$1.4MEducation$1.0MHealth$304kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$13kRecreation & Sports$5kReligion$400Other$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $203k
  • $250k+1 grant · $460k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stevens Institute of Technology$460,000
Saint Peter's Preparatory School$152,500
New York-Presbyterian Hospital$50,000
Lehigh University$35,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center$25,000
Gettysburg College$25,000
Collegiate School$25,000
The Fund for Park Ave$5,000
American Museum of Natural History$1,000
The Museum of Modern Art$1,000
Mayo Clinic$1,000
National September 11 Memorial & Museum$500
St Patrick's Cathedral$100
The New York Landmarks Conservancy$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mayo Clinic: $1k → 9%Gettysburg College: $25k → 9%Lehigh University: $35k → 11%The Hun School of Princeton: $50k → 11%Stevens Institute of Technology: $460k → 14%Loyola University: $25k → 19%Mayo Clinic: $1k → 9%Gettysburg College: $25k → 9%Lehigh University: $25k → 11%The Hun School of Princeton: $40k → 11%Stevens Institute of Technology: $445k → 14%Loyola University: $25k → 19%Mayo Clinic: $1k → 9%Gettysburg College: $25k → 9%Lehigh University: $25k → 11%Stevens Institute of Technology: $435k → 14%Mayo Clinic: $1k → 9%Gettysburg College: $25k → 9%Saint Peter's Preparatory School: $153k → 14%Central Park Conservancy: $5k → 17%Saint Peter's Preparatory School: $153k → 14%The Fund for Park Ave: $5k → 17%Saint Peter's Preparatory School: $153k → 14%The Fund for Park Ave: $5k → 17%Stevens Institute of Technology: $76k → 14%The Fund for Park Ave: $5k → 17%Saint Peter's Preparatory School: $53k → 14%The Fund for Park Ave: $5k → 17%SEE ATTACHMENT: $439k → 17%SEE ATTACHMENT: $373k → 17%SEE ATTACHMENT: $350k → 17%Metropolitan Museum of Art: $1k → 17%Metropolitan Museum of Art: $1k → 17%Metropolitan Museum of Art: $1k → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $25k → 17%Museum of Modern Art: $1k → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $25k → 17%Museum of Modern Art: $1k → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $25k → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $25k → 17%New York-Presbyterian Hospital: $50k → 17%New York-Presbyterian Hospital: $50k → 17%New York-Presbyterian Hospital: $50k → 17%New York-Presbyterian Hospital: $50k → 17%Collegiate School: $70k → 17%Collegiate School: $70k → 17%Collegiate School: $25k → 17%Collegiate School: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 16 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
1

Total granted

$2.8M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $190k · revenue +38%
  • GC
    GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON
    2× · 2022–2023 · $90k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +17%
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.

1
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
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
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
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
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Stevens Institute of Technology: $1,415,800 · OtherStevens Institute of TechnologySaint Peter's Preparatory School: $510,000 · OtherSaint Peter's Preparatory SchoolNew York-Presbyterian Hospital: $200,000 · OtherNew York-Presbyterian HospitalMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $100,000 · Other+5 more: $72,800 · OtherCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $190,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL …GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGETHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $90,000 · EducationTHE HUN SCHOOL OF …LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $85,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYMuseum of Modern Art: $4,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMAYO CLINIC: $4,000 · Health
Other$2,298,600Education$465,000Arts & Culture$11,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Health$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lawrence T Babbio Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence T Babbio Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Hun School of Princeton: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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