· Private foundation
Mary E Babcock Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION | $104,526 |
| JOHNSTOWN MONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,500 |
| MARY BABCOCK LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| APPLE BLOSSOM FLOWERS LANDSCAPING | $6,889 |
| HARTFORD TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPT | $2,760 |
| THE ELECTRICAL TRADES CENTER | $1,500 |
| GA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BURSAR OFFICE | $1,500 |
| NORTHRIDGE LOCAL SCHOOLS | $600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Mary E Babcock Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 84%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +65% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTHE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY4× · 2017–2020 · $37k · revenue +69%
- JYJOHNSTOWN YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +106%
- OUOtterbein University2× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $19k
- FOFRIENDS OF CORNELL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $16k
- MTMONROE TOWNSHIP TRUSTEESone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
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.
To provide training to electrical apprentices in mahoning and trumbull counties, and through that training to provide skilled workers to area employers.
Through an engagement with the liberal arts, transylvania university prepares its students for a humane and fulfilling personal and public life by cultivating independent thinking, open-mindedness, creative expression and commitment to…
The westerville symphony at otterbein university provides symphonic performances to audiences in central ohio and music education in westerville and the surrounding communities.
Defiance College graduates students to lead distinctive lives in their chosen professions through a spirit of service by preparing them to Know, To Understand, To Lead, and To Serve.
The mission of the johnstown symphony orchestra is to enable a broad audience in our geographic region to experience live performances of high quality classical orchestral music.
Johnson college provides real-world, hands-on learning in a caring environment and prepares graduates to enter into or advance in their careers.
Rensselaer educates the leaders of tomorrow for technologically based careers. We celebrate discovery and the responsible application of technology to create knowledge and global prosperity.
The University of Northwestern Ohio's vision is to be a premier provider of high-quality education through innovative and experiential learning environments. The University strives to develop empowered graduates who think critically and…
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTOWN YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Otterbein University ↗
- Who funds THE ELECTRICAL TRADES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds NEWARK-GRANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds BUILD OF LICKNG COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary E Babcock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary E Babcock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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