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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.

$299k
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$244kHuman Services$148kInternational$146kYouth Development$88kCivil Rights$68kReligion$63kArts & Culture$60kHealth$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k59 grants · $187k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $112k
$3,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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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.

area typical 10%SIRIUS INC: $3k → 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%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $1k → 12%SIRIUS INC: $2k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $2k → 17%MIRIAMS KITCHEN: $2k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $2k → 14%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $6k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1k → 7%THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%SIRIUS INC: $2k → 14%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION: $2k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN INC: $2k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $2k → 14%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $6k → 14%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SIRIUS INC: $2k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $1k → 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 INC: $1k → 17%MIRIAM S KITCHEN: $2k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $1k → 14%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%NEADS INC: $1k → 11%HILLTOWN VILLAGE INC: $1k → 12%NEADS INC: $1k → 11%NEADS INC: $1k → 11%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $10k → 8%NEADS INC: $1k → 11%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $10k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $10k → 8%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $1k → 17%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC: $10k → 8%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
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

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 94 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
47

Total granted

$1.2M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-12%

Still filing today

86%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BAGLY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +102%
  • PF
    POINT FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +108%
  • PT
    PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • BI
    BAGLY INC (BOSTON ALLIANCE OF GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CENTER IN WHEATON MARYLAND
    one 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.

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
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
International Center for Research On Women

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.

International
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
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
11
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
12
Ibis Reproductive Health Inc

Ibis reproductive health drives change through bold, rigorous research and principled partnerships that advance sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices and health worldwide.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/114
Grantees still filing
67/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAGLY INC: $52,500 · OtherBAGLY INCOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 · OtherOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONALNIPPONZAN MYOHOJI-NEW ENGLAND SANGHA: $36,588 · OtherNIPPONZAN MYOHOJI-NEW ENGLAND SANGHAHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $25,000 · OtherMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc: $24,000 · Other+88 more: $464,022 · Other+88 moreAMERICAN FUND FOR EMMANUEL: $64,000 · EducationAMERICAN FUND FOR EMMAN…POINT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationPOINT FOUNDATIONMEENAKSHI FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationMEENAKSHI FOUNDATION IN…American Friends of Christ Church Inc: $27,284 · EducationAmerican Friends of Chr…PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $23,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE …Emory University: $20,000 · EducationEmory UniversityUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA …+9 more: $38,500 · Education+9 morePATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAY TO POS…GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesGIFT OF ADOPTI…Crotched Mountain Foundation: $23,500 · Human ServicesCrotched Mount…REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesREACH BEYOND D…MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $10,500 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCH…SIRIUS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSIRIUS INCNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW AMERICAN P…WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $9,000 · Human Services+11 more: $18,038 · Human Services+11 moreHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $51,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $21,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRA…UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIO…International Rescue Committee INC: $14,860 · InternationalInternationa…The Arms Control Associations: $9,000 · InternationalThe Arms Con…SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $6,500 · International+9 more: $25,500 · International+9 moreBay State Performing Arts Inc: $13,000 · Arts & CultureGALA CHORUSES I INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PARK THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureME2 ORCHESTRA INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NOLUMBEKA PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthWORLD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $13,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $9,000 · HealthFeeding America: $29,500 · Food & NutritionWHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$642,110Education$292,784Human Services$179,038International$148,360Arts & Culture$52,000Health$47,500Food & Nutrition$34,500

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 budgetAMERICAN FUND FOR EMMANUEL: $64,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBAGLY INC: $52,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $51,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMEENAKSHI FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $29,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Christ Church Inc: $27,284 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc: $24,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCrotched Mountain Foundation: $23,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $21,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Peace Action Education Fund: $20,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA): $17,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $14,860 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBay State Performing Arts Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGALA CHORUSES I INC: $12,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $12,232 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Bronx United Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $10,656 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSIRIUS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARK THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER: $9,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arms Control Associations: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $6,838 over 5y, 0.0% 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.

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

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 155 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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