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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 FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$3.4MPhilanthropy$3.4MHuman Services$2.1MHealth$560kCommunity Improvement$555kEducation$362kReligion$284kHousing & Shelter$221kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $289k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $714k
  • $250k+3 grants · $800k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY$300,000
CLIMATE ACTION CAMPAIGN$250,000
BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION INSTITUTE SAN DIEGO$250,000
MAAC$175,000
THE CHILDRENS INITIATIVE$150,000
MAAC$150,000
SAN YSIDRO HEALTH$81,363
BETHEL AME SAN DIEGO SOLAR$57,816
CASA FAMILIAR$50,000
SANDIEGO350$50,000
GOFUNDMEORG$25,000
KOINONIA FARM INC$25,000
SHERMAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
OAKHURST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
SHARIA'S CLOSET$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Life Services Alternatives: $25k → 8%INSPIRATION TRANSPORTATION: $19k → 19%Area Residential Care: $25k → 11%EKVN YEFOLECVLKE: $25k → 18%Funders Together to End Homelessness: $58k → 16%Inspiration Transportation: $5k → 19%LIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES: $23k → 8%YMCA of San Diego County Grant for Lincoln Apartments: $300k → 11%Charity Global: $40k → 17%Regional Taskforce on the Homeless: $30k → 11%Casa Familiar: $350k → 11%CASA FAMILIAR: $50k → 11%Casa Familiar Inc: $23k → 11%MAAC: $316k → 11%MAAC: $175k → 11%MAAC: $150k → 11%MAAC: $141k → 11%MAAC: $100k → 11%MAAC: $50k → 11%South Bay Community Services: $171k → 11%SHARIA'S CLOSET: $25k → 11%Casa de Amparo: $45k → 11%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

NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of B Quest’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 62%.

B Questlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 23 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
53

Total granted

$7.8M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+13%

Still filing today

74%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $479k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthScience & TechEducationOther
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

  • CA
    CLIMATE ACTION CAMPAIGN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +34%
  • MA
    Metropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty of San Diego County Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $931k · revenue +55%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $900k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +15%
  • YO
    YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +74%
  • SC
    SBCS CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $171k · revenue +80%
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
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
6
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
7
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
8
Climate Access Fund Corporation

The Climate Access Fund develops and finances community solar products that serve low to moderate income households

Environment
9
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
10
Policy & Innovation Center

The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…

Philanthropy
11
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
12
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Well. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 89 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
40/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLECTIVESUN FOUNDATION: $1,214,646 · EnvironmentCOLLECTIVESUN FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY: $900,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGR…CDP NORTH AMERICA INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentCDP NORTH AMERICA INCSANDIEGO350: $110,000 · Environment+6 more: $132,324 · EnvironmentMetropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty of San Diego County Inc: $931,193 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Area Advi…CASA FAMILIAR INC: $422,835 · Human ServicesCASA FAMILIAR INCYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $300,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUN…SBCS CORPORATION: $170,805 · Human ServicesSBCS CORPORATION+12 more: $419,309 · Human Services+12 moreIndividual grant recipient: $813,616 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBUILDING ELECTRIFICATION INSTITUTE SAN DIEGO: $250,000 · OtherBUILDING ELECTRIFICATION INSTIT…The Well: $190,000 · OtherThe WellCatalyst of SD and Imperial: $140,000 · OtherINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $250,000 · OtherINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNIT…THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $175,000 · OtherTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATIONMOHUMAN: $150,000 · Other+44 more: $1,164,322 · Other+44 moreTHE CHILDRENS INITIATIVE INC: $635,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDRENS…THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $550,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO…GOFUNDMEORG: $125,000 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG+3 more: $18,000 · PhilanthropyCLIMATE ACTION CAMPAIGN: $1,190,765 · Public Safety & DisasterCLIMATE ACT…VISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $361,252 · HealthCENTRO DE SALUD DE LA COMUNIDAD DE SAN YSIDRO INC: $106,099 · HealthNew Earth Recovery: $19,625 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $400,000 · International+1 more: $7,875 · International
Environment$2,506,970Human Services$2,244,142Other$3,132,938Philanthropy$1,328,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,190,765Health$486,976International$407,875

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLLECTIVESUN FOUNDATION: $1,214,646 over 4y, 100% of budgetCLIMATE ACTION CAMPAIGN: $1,190,765 over 5y, 20% of budgetMetropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty of San Diego County Inc: $931,193 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY: $900,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS INITIATIVE INC: $635,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $550,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCASA FAMILIAR INC: $422,835 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $400,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $361,252 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $250,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetThe Well: $190,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSBCS CORPORATION: $170,805 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCDP NORTH AMERICA INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMOHUMAN: $150,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANDIEGO350: $110,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetCENTRO DE SALUD DE LA COMUNIDAD DE SAN YSIDRO INC: $106,099 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $57,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY INC: $50,750 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetINFO LINE OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDATA SCIENCE ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetLIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INC: $48,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $44,809 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL TASK FORCE ON THE HOMELESS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA CONNER LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMichigan Advocacy Program: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSharias Closet: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMAKE PROJECTS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSherman Heights Community Center Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetArea Residential Care Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVERNON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetKOINONIA FARM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFEEDING GREENE INC - THE FOOD PANTRY OF GREENE COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRATION TRANSPORTATION: $24,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Parks Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLAND'S SAKE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

The San Diego Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…The Conrad Prebys Fou…The Parker FoundationPrice Philanthropies …Alliance Healthcare F…The Cushman FoundationLeichtag FoundationCalifornia Community …Jacobs & Cushman San …Sempra FoundationThe Energy Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA35× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 B Quest funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B Quest. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Land's Sake Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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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How do I get to B Quest?

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.

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 89 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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