California · Private foundation
B Quest
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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $35M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations B Quest funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $624k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $1.8M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $1.8M | 75% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $1.4M | 64% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $2.6M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $3.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collectivesun Foundation | $1,214,646 | 4 | 100% |
| Climate Action Campaign | $1,190,765 | 5 | 20% |
| Metropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty of San Diego County Inc | $931,193 | 5 | 1% |
| Center for Climate Integrity | $900,000 | 3 | 7% |
| The Childrens Initiative Inc | $635,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Casa Familiar Inc | $422,835 | 3 | 4% |
| Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development | $400,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Vista Community Clinic | $361,252 | 2 | 1% |
| YMCA of San Diego County | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Innovation Network for Communities Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
B Quest supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank · Sempra Foundation · The Energy Foundation
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to B Quest 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.
About B Quest
- How much does B Quest give?
- B Quest reported 28 grants totaling $1,827,297 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does B Quest fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Philanthropy (30%), Human Services (19%).
- Who are B Quest's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Collectivesun Foundation ($1.2M), Climate Action Campaign ($1.2M), Metropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty of San Diego County Inc ($931k).
- Does B Quest fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does B Quest accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as B Quest?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, The Conrad Prebys Foundation.
- Where is B Quest based?
- B Quest is based in CA.
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