New England Biolabs Foundation
Historical FunderIpswich, Massachusetts · EIN 04-2776213 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$1.1M
Organizations funded117
Typical grant$3,000
Total assets$0
Half of its grants to organizations were between $2,000 and $8,000.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | JESSICA L BROWN |
|---|---|
| Address | 240 COUNTY ROAD, IPSWICH MA 01938 |
| Phone | 9789987990 |
| Form and materials | REFER TO THE FOUNDATION'S WEBSITE, WWW.NEBF.ORG, FOR COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS. |
| Deadlines | APPLICATIONS ARE REVIEWED TWICE A YEAR. |
| Restrictions | REFER TO THE FOUNDATION'S WEBSITE, WWW.NEBF.ORG, FOR COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS. |
Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
41% of grants went outside Massachusetts.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Action Institute | Ipswich, MA | Core operating support and capacity building | $234,500 |
| Cultural Survival | Cambridge, MA | Supporting indigenous-led grantmaking | $100,000 |
| American Bird Conservancy | The Plains, VA | Conserving LA moskitia's wildlife and improving livelihoods through agroforestry cacao systems and capacity-building in honduras | $25,000 |
| Global Greengrants Fund | Boulder, CO | The agroecology fund | $25,000 |
| Grassroots International | Boston, MA | Territorial defense, food sovereignty, and peasant feminisms in honduras | $25,000 |
| Amazon Watch | Oakland, CA | Women defenders of the amazon | $20,000 |
| Ecologic Development Fund | Watertown, MA | Community organizations in northern honduras lead forest conservation and improve their livelihoods | $20,000 |
| Essex County Greenbelt Association | Essex, MA | Land conservation technology and planning project | $20,000 |
| Fauna & Flora International | UK | Strengthening the sustainability and resilience of livelihoods in agricultural landscapes and the biodiversity of the ometepe island… | $20,000 |
| Groundswell International | Washington, DC | Youth storytellers in guatemala: enabling participation through local media in favor of agroecology | $20,000 |
| Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund | Huntington, VT | Supporting community-based marine conservation in golfo de santa | $20,000 |
| Ipswich River Watershed Association | Ipswich, MA | Expanding irwa environmental education programs | $20,000 |
| Madre | New York, NY | Harvesting hope in nicaragua | $20,000 |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc (Mass Audubon) | Lincoln, MA | North shore coastal islands monitoring and outreach | $20,000 |
| Pachamama's Path | St Augustine, FL | Living the andean legacy: the kusi kawsay school, kusi nan organic farm, and nawpa nan andean cultural sustainability (two-year grant) | $20,000 |
| Salem Sound Coastwatch (Sscw) | Salem, MA | Staffing to build stewardship capacity | $20,000 |
| Maralliance | San Francisco, CA | Monitoring management effectiveness of belizes turneffe atoll marine reserve through the long-term study of marine megafauna (two-year… | $15,000 |
| El Porvenir | Broomfield, CO | Watershed restoration in waslala, nicaragua and staff training | $13,000 |
| Andes Amazon Conservancy (Aac) | Montague, MA | Indigenous-Led conservation land-use planning | $12,000 |
| Mesoamerican Development Institute (Mdi) | Lowell, MA | Community participation in a carbon removal and validation program to restore forest habitat on coffee farms in the headwaters of the yoro… | $12,000 |
| Organization for Gender Civic Engagement and Youth Development (Ogceyod) | CM | Green city theatre road-show - douala edition | $12,000 |
| Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (Pasa) | Portland, OR | Protecting cameroons new wall-mbargue wildlife refuge through sustainable agroforestry and community conservation patrols | $12,000 |
| Rainforest Trust | Warrenton, VA | Save the amazon: protect half a million acres in southern peru | $12,000 |
| Semillas Del Oceano Ong | GT | Conservando los pastos marinos y sus especies asociadas, en bahia LA graciosa, refugio de vida silvestre punta de manabique, a traves de LA… | $12,000 |
| Sekakoh | Bamenda, CM | Advancing community-driven conservation of the ebo forest reserve, an important site for the conservation of africa's most endangered… | $10,800 |
| New England Aquariumanderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life | Boston, MA | Support through indigenous-led & pooled funds | $10,000 |
| Geoyachaq | Callao, PE | Ancestral and productive knowledge in the rural community of pichirhua | $8,800 |
| Asociacion Red de Mujeres Rurales Chabelita Castro (Remuric) | NU | Cuidando el agua, cuido mi vida y mi futuro en LA reserva de biosfera isla de ometepe, nicaragua/by taking care of the water, i take care… | $8,000 |
| Boston University | Boston, MA | Restoring eelgrass in the great marsh, massachusetts | $8,000 |
| Centre for Women and Food Security (Cewafs-Ghana) | Sunyani, GH | Nature's guardians: indigenous women pioneering conservation leadership, climate resilience, and livelihood empowerment | $8,000 |
| Crusaders for Environmental Protection & Ozone Watch | Bamenda, CM | Catalyzing community-driven conservation of the cross river gorilla (gorilla gorilla diehli) along the cross river headwater area in… | $8,000 |
| Leap for Education | Salem, MA | Introducing the workforce of tomorrow to renewable energy | $8,000 |
| Raw Art Works | Lynn, MA | Womxn artist muralists (wamx) | $8,000 |
| Tusk Trust Ltd | Gillingham, UK | Herp conservation ghana | $8,000 |
| Clearwater Marine Aquarium | Clearwater, FL | Implementing conservation activities, habitat restoration, and youth outreach to benefit the endangered antillean manatee and communities… | $7,600 |
| Agro-Introductions Ghana (Aig) | Cantonments, GH | Eco-Link project: empowering communities for landscape integrity, nature-based solutions, and keeping ecosystems nurtured | $7,200 |
| Kestrel Educational Adventures | Beverly, MA | Conservation club spring and fall 2024 | $7,000 |
| The Environment and Community Development Assoc | Melong, CM | Community-Based restoration and alternative livelihoods development in the mount muanenguba forest area in cameroon | $6,800 |
| Aboyerd - Agriculture & Bioconservation Org | CM | Advancing community-led biodiversity conservation of great apes and elephants in one of cameroons most conflict-affected areas: the case of… | $6,400 |
| Community Agriculture and Environmental Protection Association Cameroon (Ca | CM | Mbororo women landscape restoration project | $6,400 |
| Community-Based Biosynergy Management (Cbbm) | CM | Trees for people and chimpanzees in the somie landscape, adamawa region, cameroon | $6,400 |
| Ecachayunain | Chiriaco, PE | "Promoviendo el conocimiento y LA crianza de peces amazonicos en LA cuenca del chiriaco (buchigkis) al noreste del peru en una comunidad… | $6,400 |
| Ecological Balance | CM | Valorizing non-timber forest products in communities of the mt. cameroon forest landscape (phase II) | $6,400 |
| Fundacion Defensores de LA Naturaleza | GT | Fostering gender-inclusive sustainable livelihoods in bocas del polochic wildlife refuge | $6,400 |
| Ilili | Miami, FL | Guardians of the blue: building support for shark and rays in the moskitia of honduras | $6,400 |
| Peruvian Association for Conservation of Nature (Apeco) | Buea, CM | Gobernanza y merese (mecanismo de retribucion por servicios ecosistemicos) para LA sostenibilidad de LA cordillera de colan: sitios piloto… | $6,400 |
| Sustainable Environment Ecotourism and Agricultural Development Organizatio | CM | Promoting community-based actions for ecosystem restoration and alternative livelihoods in the santchou wildlife reserve, cameroon | $6,400 |
| The Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development | Marshall, MI | Lacco valley initiative (lvi): economic development and conservation | $5,000 |
| Backyard Growers | Gloucester, MA | Strengthen and deepen essential programs, fresh food access and food systems education for students and low-income residents (A two-year… | $5,000 |
| Land Is Life | Brooklyn, NY | Advancing indigenous-led grantmaking to promote agroecology in sub-saharan africa and support peoples living in voluntary isolation and… | $5,000 |
| Oceana | Washington, DC | Securing current and future protections for belizes marine environment | $5,000 |
| Communaute Et Developpement Durable (Coded) | CM | Community integration in the conservation of the ebo forest in the cameroon littoral region | $4,800 |
| Essex National Heritage Comm | Salem, MA | Teacher professional development in place-based civic learning | $4,800 |
| Green Beverly | Beverly, MA | Bridging food insecurity with food rescue | $4,000 |
| Cace - Center for Amazon Comm Ecology | Lemoyne, PA | Sustainable harvest and marketing of value-added non-timber forest products (ntfps) with native communities in the northern peruvian amazon… | $3,000 |
| Fundacion Mundo Azul | GT | Strengthening communities' beekeeping capacity for the conservation of mangrove ecosystems | $3,000 |
| Fundacion Propeten | GT | Gobernanza para LA conservacion del lugar sagrado y parque arqueologico naj tunich/recovery of native potato varieties and adaptation to… | $3,000 |
| Instituto de Derecho Ambiental (Idamho) | HO | Centinelas del agua por LA restauracion del rio chamelecon/the sentinels of water for the restoration of the chamelecon river | $3,000 |
| Oneplanet | Burke, VA | Empowering maijuna communities to protect their ancestral territory and biocultural resources - year 2 of two-year grant | $3,000 |
| Pachamama Alliance | San Francisco, CA | Amazon sacred headwaters initiative | $3,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 117 grants to organizations.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,060,635 | 117 |
| 2023 | $1,464,221 | 234 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 14, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202513189349104741
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 04-2776213
- Profile updated Nov 5, 2026
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