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Susan a & Donald P Babson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$289k
Granted FY2024still arriving
76
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$244kHuman Services$148kInternational$146kYouth Development$88kCivil Rights$68kReligion$63kArts & Culture$60kHealth$49kOther$0
02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k68 grants · $205k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $84k
$3,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAGLY INC (BOSTON ALLIANCE OF GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH$14,250
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$10,000
POINT FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION$10,000
MEENAKSHI FOUNDATION INC$10,000
INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CENTER IN WHEATON MARYLAND$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - SERPENTINE SOCIETY$10,000
PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE$10,000
AMERICAN FUND FOR EMMANUEL$8,000
OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL$8,000
THE WASHINGTON BUDDHIST VIHARA$7,800
Individual grant recipient$7,500
NIPPONZAN MYOHOJI NEW ENGLAND PEACE PAGODA$7,000
BOSTON PREPARATORY CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL$6,000
HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND$6,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $1k → 12%SIRIUS INC: $2k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 9%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION: $3k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $3k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $3k → 14%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $8k → 14%UNLOCKING FUTURES INC: $1k → 7%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $2k → 22%SIRIUS INC: $2k → 14%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION: $2k → 17%MIRIAMS KITCHEN: $2k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $2k → 14%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $6k → 14%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%SIRIUS INC: $2k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $2k → 17%MIRIAMS KITCHEN: $2k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $2k → 14%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $6k → 14%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%SIRIUS INC: $1k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $1k → 17%MIRIAM S KITCHEN: $2k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $2k → 14%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%NEADS INC: $1k → 11%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $10k → 8%NEADS INC: $1k → 11%HILLTOWN VILLAGE INC: $1k → 12%NEADS INC: $1k → 11%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $10k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $10k → 8%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $1k → 17%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $10k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
DC
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$905k · 85 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.

85 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
36

Total granted

$905k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-24%

Still filing today

91%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +21%
  • PF
    POINT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +108%
  • PT
    PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -55%
  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
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
8
Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc

The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and…

Human Services
9
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
10
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders Inc

The gnwp is a coalition of more than 100 womens rights groups and other civil society organizations continued on schedule o

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund and the most unlike its peers is World Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Domestic Violence ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…School District FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal Food System Organizat…Community College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Immigrant Worker SupportCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Development ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Food Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/111
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,454

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 144 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/108
Grantees still filing
65/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BAGLY INC — $38,000 · OtherBAGLY INCNIPPONZAN MYOHOJI-NEW ENGLAND SANGHA — $36,588 · OtherNIPPONZAN MYOHOJI-NEW ENGLAND SANGHAOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL — $30,000 · OtherOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONALUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $20,000 · OtherHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC — $20,000 · OtherMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $20,000 · Other+79 more — $343,170 · Other+79 moreAMERICAN FUND FOR EMMANUEL — $59,000 · EducationAMERICAN FUND FOR EM…POINT FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationPOINT FOUNDATIONMEENAKSHI FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EducationMEENAKSHI FOUNDATION…PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $18,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR T…UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · EducationEmory University — $10,000 · Education+8 more — $25,500 · Education+8 morePATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAY TO POSS…GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $24,000 · Human ServicesGIFT OF ADOPTIO…Crotched Mountain Foundation — $21,500 · Human ServicesCrotched Mounta…REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesREACH BEYOND DO…NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesNEW AMERICAN PA…MIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $8,500 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHE…WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S REFUGEE…SIRIUS INC — $7,000 · Human Services+10 more — $16,038 · Human Services+10 moreHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $41,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS …UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · InternationalUNITED NATION…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $14,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL…International Rescue Committee INC — $12,860 · InternationalInternational…The Arms Control Associations — $9,000 · InternationalThe Arms Cont…SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC — $4,500 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR LSE — $4,500 · International+8 more — $21,000 · International+8 moreBay State Performing Arts Inc — $13,000 · Arts & CultureGALA CHORUSES I INC — $9,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PARK THEATRE INC — $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureME2 ORCHESTRA INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NOLUMBEKA PROJECT INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 · HealthWORLD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $13,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $4,500 · HealthFeeding America — $25,500 · Food & NutritionWHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$507,758Education$202,500Human Services$148,038International$127,360Arts & Culture$43,000Health$38,000Food & Nutrition$30,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN FUND FOR EMMANUEL — $59,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEENAKSHI FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetBAGLY INC — $38,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $24,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCrotched Mountain Foundation — $21,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Peace Action Education Fund — $15,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA) — $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBay State Performing Arts Inc — $13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $12,860 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $9,656 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGALA CHORUSES I INC — $9,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetThe Arms Control Associations — $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Bronx United Inc — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER — $8,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARK THEATRE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSIRIUS INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC — $6,948 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC — $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDC SCORES — $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $5,054 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Paul & Edith Babson F…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Irene E and Georg…The Beveridge Family …Tides FoundationAgnes M Lindsay TrustCummings Foundation G…The Winky Foundation …Peoples United Commun…Rockland Trust Charit…
Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA26× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Paul & Edith Babson Foundation 106846-000 · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co · Peoples United Community Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Susan a & Donald P Babson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Pathway to Possible Inc — 84% of income from government
  • Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc — 55% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
  • South Africa Partners Inc — 42% of income from government
  • The Performance Project Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Homework House Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
  • The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
  • Hilltown Village — 7% of income from government
  • The Nolumbeka Project Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Bay State Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • ME2 Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Susan a & Donald P Babson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Susan a & Donald P Babson 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 144 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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