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Stephenson Pope Babcock Foundation at a glance

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Stephenson Pope Babcock 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.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$231kEnvironment$148kArts & Culture$141kHealth$133kHuman Services$109kInternational$103kYouth Development$89kPhilanthropy$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $121k
$8,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ON COURSE FOUNDATION$17,000
IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES$15,000
ROOTS AND WINGS$15,000
WINSTON SALEM STREET SCHOOL$12,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATOIN OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$11,000
HAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH$11,000
THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE$10,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$10,000
SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY$10,000
THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST$10,000
KULA FOR KARMA$9,000
OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND$8,000
NC COASTAL FEDERATION$8,000
ARENA THEATER$8,000
CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CHILDRENS ROOM: $1k → 8%OPERATION HOME: $5k → 12%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $10k → 9%SPECTRUM FOR LIVINGS DEVELOPMENT INC: $1k → 7%SAIL TO WIN: $1k → 7%SPECTRUM FOR LIVINGS DEVELOPMENT INC: $1k → 7%ROOTS AND WINGS: $15k → 11%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 16%SYDNEY PAIGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%ROOTS AND WINGS: $15k → 11%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $5k → 9%ROOTS AND WINGS: $10k → 11%ROOTS AND WINGS: $8k → 11%VALLEY GUARDIANS INC: $1k → 11%ROOTS AND WINGS: $8k → 11%ROOTS AND WINGS: $1k → 11%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE & RECREATIONAL CENTER: $10k → 7%THE RETREAT: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
MN
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
OK
TX
FL
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$817k · 41 repeat orgs$421k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
84

Total granted

$817k
$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+24%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentHealthArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PM
    PROJECT MOST INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +93%
  • RA
    Roots and Wings Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +94%
  • HC
    HAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +383%

Funded once

  • W
    WILDCOAST
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
  • BO
    BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +214%
  • CD
    COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
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
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
2
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
3
The Bridge Project Inc

The bridge project, inc. (the organization") is a non-profit organization that seeks to solve child poverty in the united states. launched in june 2021 by the monarch foundation, it is new york's first consistent unconditional cash…

Philanthropy
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
7
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
8
Opportunity Partners

Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…

Employment
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
11
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
12
Hunger Solutions New York Inc

We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Educational Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Community Development Foundation. 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

106 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. 106 of the 142 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/106
Grantees still filing
65/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $45,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INCFOLDS OF HONOR: $39,000 · OtherFOLDS OF HONORAFTEE: $28,000 · OtherBINATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE C: $24,000 · OtherTHE FEATHER FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY: $22,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE INC: $20,000 · Other+69 more: $390,500 · Other+69 morePROJECT MOST INC: $83,000 · EducationPROJECT MOST INCBOOKMARKS INC: $17,000 · EducationBOOKMARKS INCKula for Karma New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: $15,000 · EducationKula for Karma Ne…BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $12,000 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PR…COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $12,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE DIRECT…WINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL: $12,000 · EducationWINSTON-SALEM STR…PAVE SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationMADE IN DURHAM: $8,000 · Education+10 more: $12,000 · Education+10 moreHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $46,000 · Arts & CultureHAMPTONS CO…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I: $38,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S …OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureOLA OF EAST…IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureIYRS SCHOOL…+3 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureRoots and Wings Inc: $57,000 · Human ServicesRoots and…THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTE…Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesBridgeham…FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesRetreat Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION HOME INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSydney Paige Foundation: $5,000 · Human Services+6 more: $7,000 · Human Services+6 moreFISH REEF PROJECT: $27,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · EnvironmentWILDCOAST: $12,000 · EnvironmentTHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentFOREVER MARYLAND INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentCommunity Greening Corp: $7,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Environment+3 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentInternational Community Development Foundation: $58,000 · InternationalFLYING KITES INC: $10,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $5,000 · InternationalEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $4,000 · International+5 more: $5,000 · InternationalCity Squash Inc: $31,000 · Recreation & SportsADVANTAGE CLEVELAND TENNIS AND EDUCATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsA WALK ON WATER INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsURBANSURF4KIDS: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$590,500Education$191,000Arts & Culture$130,000Human Services$104,000Environment$89,000International$87,000Recreation & Sports$59,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT MOST INC: $83,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetInternational Community Development Foundation: $58,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetRoots and Wings Inc: $57,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $46,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I: $38,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFISH REEF PROJECT: $27,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetBINATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE C: $24,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE FEATHER FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY: $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOOKMARKS INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPUT ME IN INC: $17,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetINSPIRATIONAL TRIATHLON RACING INTERNATIONAL CORP: $16,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKula for Karma New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGLOBAL PEARLS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWILDCOAST: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEAD Girls of NC Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPAVE SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVANTAGE CLEVELAND TENNIS AND EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOpen Table Ministry Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetOCEAN INSTITUTE: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMADE IN DURHAM: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOREVER MARYLAND INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Greening Corp: $7,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPY PRODIGIES: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetA WALK ON WATER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The New York Communit…Yaffa Foundation IncReynolds American Fou…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Winston-Salem Fou…The Edward T Haberman…Muchnic FoundationPledgeling FoundationOrange County Communi…The Clamshell Foundat…Hamptons Invitational…Halsey Family Foundat…
The New York Community TrustNY20.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Yaffa Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Edward T Habermann & Susan B Koehn Foundation · Muchnic Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Clamshell Foundation Inc · Hamptons Invitational Charitable Fund Inc · Halsey Family Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stephenson Pope Babcock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephenson Pope Babcock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc: 27% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Community Greening Corp: 5% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Stephenson Pope Babcock Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stephenson Pope 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.

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 142 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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