· Private foundation
Susan a & Donald P Babson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $187k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHRIST CHURCH | $27,284 |
| BAGLY INC | $14,500 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC | $10,000 |
| POINT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL INC | $10,000 |
| MEENAKSHI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CENTER IN WHEATON | $7,500 |
| WORLD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $7,000 |
| ZOO NEW ENGLAND | $6,000 |
| GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
94 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 10 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BAGLY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +102%- PFPOINT FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +108%
- PTPATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- IBINTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CENTERone grant, 2023 · $15k
- BIBAGLY INC (BOSTON ALLIANCE OF GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER YOUTHone grant, 2024 · $14k
- IBINTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CENTER IN WHEATON MARYLANDone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
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…
Ibis reproductive health drives change through bold, rigorous research and principled partnerships that advance sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices and health worldwide.
How this is measured
114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 155 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 AMERICAN FUND FOR EMMANUEL ↗
- Who funds BAGLY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds MEENAKSHI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Christ Church Inc ↗
- Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds Crotched Mountain Foundation ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bay State Performing Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GALA CHORUSES I INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds South Bronx United Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Susan a & Donald P Babson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan a & Donald P Babson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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