- Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
- Culture, Education and Leadership Development
- Environment and Community Building
- The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists
- Memberships
- Discretionary Grants
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
ACCION
$9,000 – The Brazilian Business Initiative
Artists For Humanity
$8,000 – Youth Arts Enterprise Program
Center for Women and Enterprise
$10,000 – Scholarships for Low Income Women
Crittenton Women’s Union
$10,000 – Economic Mobility Initiative
More Than Words
$7,500 – General Operating Support
Year Up
$9,000 – General Operating Support
SUBTOTAL $53,500
Culture, Education, and Leadership Development
America Scores New England
$6,000 – Youth Development Program
American Indian College Fund (Nebraska)
$10,000 – Tribal Scholarship Program
Associated Grant Makers
$20,000 – Summer Fund
Babson College
$10,000 – The Posse Program Scholarship Fund
Bell Foundation
$10,000 – General Program Support
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
$10,000 – Support of the Early Access to College Program
Bird Street Community Center
$10,000 – Boys Glass Arts Entrepreneurship Program
Boston Partners in Education
$10,000 – Math Rules! Coaching/Mentoring Program
Bottom Line
$5,000 – Program costs, student workbooks, care packages, and occupancy expenses
Build – Greater Boston
$10,000 – Program Expenses
Cristo Rey Boston High School, Inc.
$7,000 – To fund one student work study position at a non-profit organization
Fund for Wellesley
$5,000 – Second of Five-Year Grant totaling $25,000
Generations, Inc.
$10,000 – General Operating Support
Let’s Get Ready
$10,000 – Program support to work with Boston Public Schools to raise SAT scores
Playworks Metro Boston
$10,000 – General Operating Support
South End Technology Center
$12,000 – Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Program
Summer Search
$7,000 – Support of the summer 3 week wilderness exploration program
Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center
$10,000 – Expanding and Refining the Connections Program
uAspire
$10,000 – Support of the College Advising Program
University of Massachusetts Foundation
$10,000 – Urban Scholars Program
Wellesley Historical Society
$25,000 – Capital Campaign
YMCA of Greater Boston
$15,000 – Summer programs
SUBTOTAL $222,000
Environment and Community Building
Boston Natural Areas Network
$10,000 – Youth Conservation Corps
Franklin Park Coalition
$15,000 – Summer programs
SUBTOTAL $25,000
TOTAL COMPETITIVE $250,500
The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists (recipients mandated by donor)
Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
$11,435
Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$4,714 – Northeastern Regional Auditions
Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$11,714 – Lindemann Young Artist Development Program
TOTAL SOBOFEA $27,863
Memberships
Associated Grant Makers
Boston, MA
$3,150 – 2013 Membership
Association of Small Foundations
Washington, DC
$625 – 2013 Membership
Council on Foundations
Washington, DC
$1,230 – 2013 Membership
TOTAL MEMBERSHIPS $5,005
Discretionary Grants
350.ORG
$1,000 – Strategic campaigns to force politicians to rise to the challenge of our time.
American Friends of Christ Church
$10,000 – Operating Support
American Friends Service Committee
$1,000 – Operating support
Alzheimer’s Association
$1,000 – For Research
American Cancer Society
$1,000 – Operating Support
Arlington Street Church
$5,000 – Repairs and Maintenance of the buildings and grounds.
Babson College
$1,000 – Operating Support of the Archive
$2,500 – Out Network
$2,500 – Prism Program
Bay State Performing Arts
$10,000 – General Operating Support
$10,000 – Endowment
Boston Arts Academy
$1,000 – Youth Scholarship “General Fund”
The Boston Foundation
$2,000 – For the Equality Fund
Boston Healthcare for the Homeless
$2,000 – Provision of essential resources to homeless families
Boston Public Library Foundation
$1,000 – Homework Programs at Branch Libraries
Boston Symphony Orchestra
$1,000 – Youth Programs
British Schools and Universities Foundation
$2,500 – The Uppingham School
Charles River Watershed Association
$1,000 – Clean-up of the river and kids programs
Children’s Aid Society
$1,000 – For the New York Time’s Neediest Families
The Children’s Defense Fund
$2,000 – Advocacy to End Child Poverty, and for the 40th Anniversary of CDF
Corporate Angel Network
$1,000 – Provide children with cancer with transportation to and from treatment facilities
Crittenton Women’s Union
$1,000 – Horizon’s Transitional Housing Program
Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center
$2,000 – CMARS Program & Operating Support
Dana Hall School
$6,000 – Annual Fund
Deerfield Academy
$1,000 – Native American Alliance
Defenders of the Black Hills
$1,000 – Operating Support
Elizabeth Stone House
$1,000 – Parent and Child Center
Emmanuel College
$10,000 – General Operating and Academic Support in Memory of Dr. Davies
Environmental Defense Fund
$5,000 – For the Land, Water, and Wildlife Program at the Catalyst Level
Esplanade Association
$1,000 – Planning and Support
Five College Program on Peace and World Security Studies
$2,500 – Operating support
Fonkoze USA
$2,000 – Haiti Relief
Friends of Copley Square
$1,000 – Operating Support
Friends of the Public Garden, Inc.
$1,000 – Operating Support
Friendship Home
$1,000 – General Operating Support
From the Top
$2,000 – Radio Program
Fund for Southern Communities
$1,500 – For the Grant Fund Pool
Grassroots International
$2,000 – Operating Support
Haymarket People’s Fund
$5,000 – Grant fund pool
Helen Keller International
$1,000 – Leadership Work to Prevent Blindness
Historic Deerfield/SAB Fund
$3,000 – Children’s Programs
Human Rights Watch
$1,000 – For the Lois Whitman Fund at the Children’s Rights Division
Human Rights First
$1,000 – New Project: Trafficking
InnerCity Weightlifting
$1,000 – General Operating Support
International Buddhist Center (Maryland)
$3,000 – To support educational work in the USA and Sri Lanka
International Rescue Committee – New York
$2,000 – For IRC relief work in the Philippines
International Rescue Committee – United Kingdom
$1,000 – For work with Syrian Refugees
La Piñata
$1,500 – Operating support
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
$2,000 – Operating Support
Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness
$5,000 – Youth enrichment and empowerment program “2020” Focus
Massachusetts General Hospital
$1,000 – For the Alan D. Hilgenberg, MD, Lecture in Thoracic Aortic Disease
Miami University Foundation
$5,000 – For the Ann Louise Wilkinson Scholarship
Mt. Toby Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends
$1,000 – Operating support
Museum of Fine Arts
$1,000 – Youth Programs
Museum of Science
$1,000 – Camp-in Program
Mystic Seaport
$1,000 – Children’s Education Programs
National Resources Defense Council, Inc.
$5,000 – For work on Water Issues and Climate Change
New England Buddhist Vihara & Meditation Center
$1,000 – General Support
$1,000 – The Meditation Building Fund
New England Disabled Sports
$1,000 – N.E. General Operations (as needed)
New Hampshire Public Television
$2,000 – Operating Support
Nipponzan Myohoji USA
$2,000 – Operating support
$1,000 – Peace Pagoda, Leverett
$500 – Peace Pagoda, London
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Sri Lanka
Nonviolent Peace Force
$1,000 – Protection of children in South Sudan
One Fund Boston
$10,000 – To aid the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings
Partners Homecare & Hospice
$1,000 – In Home Hospice Programs
Peace Action Education Fund
$2,500 – Support of the student network S.P.A.N.
Perkins School for the Blind
$1,000 – Early Intervention and Guide Dog Programs
Phillips Academy
$5,000 – Richard Babson ’76 Fund
Purple Hearts Homes
$1,000 – Veterans Home Ownership Program
Reach Out and Read
$1,000 – Boston Programs
Red Tomato
$1,000 – Operating support
Rosie’s Place
$1,000 – Shelter/Job Training
Sarvodaya USA (projects in Sri Lanka)
$500 – Sponsor a child
$500 – Permanent Housing
$500 – Playgrounds
$500 – Sarvodaya Orphanage
$1,500 – Sarvodaya Children’s Orphanage
School Year Abroad
$1,000 – General Operating Support
South Hadley Public Library
$2,500 – The Building Fund
Special Olympics
$1,000 – General Operations for programs in NE and NH
Sri Lanka Association of New England
$1,000 – Sri Lankan Dance & Drum tradition among Sri Lankan origin children
Stanford University
$10,000 – Stanford Endowment Fund, Undergraduate Scholarships, and the President’s Fund
Trustees of Phillips Academy
$3,000 – To the Addison Gallery of Art for the purchase of work by Martin Wong
UVA Fund
$1,000 – Jefferson Literary & Debating Society’s Room #7 Endowment Fund
UVA Law School
$2,500 – Operating Support
Veteran’s Education Project
$5,000 – Operating support
WGBH
$2,000 – Children’s Programming
Wellesley Free Library
$10,000 – Unrestricted Portion of the Centennial Fund
Wellesley Scholarship Foundation
$3,000 – P&E, S&D, & J. Michael Harding Scholarships Endowment
Zing Foundation
$2,000 – Operating Support
TOTAL DISCRETIONARY $223,000
2013 GRAND TOTAL $556,368