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Mary E Babcock Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$138k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,889
Largest grant, FY2025
$104,526
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Mary E Babcock Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$138k38%
FY20245$131k0%
FY20236$150k17%
FY20228$126k63%
FY20215$100k60%
FY20207$129k57%
FY20198$112k50%
FY20187$102k43%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$508kEducation$350kArts & Culture$63kRecreation & Sports$48kEnvironment$40kPublic Benefit$34kCommunity Improvement$14kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mary E Babcock Library Inc$147,0004n/a
The Works - Ohio Center for History Art & Technology$37,24040%
Johnstown Youth Athletic Association Inc$35,000213%
Friends of Cornell School$15,8001n/a
Otterbein University$3,00020%
Hartford Township Fire Department$2,7601n/a
Northridge Local School District$2,4002n/a
The Electrical Trades Center$1,50010%
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology$1,50010%
Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra$1,20011%
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All grantees of Mary E Babcock Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mary E Babcock Library Inc$147,0004n/a
The Works - Ohio Center for History Art & Technology$37,24040%
Johnstown Youth Athletic Association Inc$35,000213%
Friends of Cornell School$15,8001n/a
Otterbein University$3,00020%
Hartford Township Fire Department$2,7601n/a
Northridge Local School District$2,4002n/a
The Electrical Trades Center$1,50010%
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology$1,50010%
Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra$1,20011%
Build of Lickng County$1,000110%

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($830k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation IncOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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Find your warmest path to Mary E Babcock Foundation 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 Mary E Babcock Foundation

How much does Mary E Babcock Foundation give?
Mary E Babcock Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $138,275 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mary E Babcock Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Education (32%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Mary E Babcock Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mary E Babcock Library Inc ($147k), The Works - Ohio Center for History Art & Technology ($37k), Johnstown Youth Athletic Association Inc ($35k).
Does Mary E Babcock Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary E Babcock Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary E Babcock Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc.
Where is Mary E Babcock Foundation based?
Mary E Babcock Foundation is based in OH.

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 28 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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