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Quad Family Foundation

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.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$249,953
Largest grant, FY2024
$751,915
Organizations funded a year
11 to 20
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$63M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Quad Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$4.3M33%
FY202320$5.3M60%
FY202215$3.7M53%
FY202111$1.7M55%
FY202020$2.8Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$12MPhilanthropy$7.5MHealth$1.1MRecreation & Sports$210kYouth Development$185kEmployment$105kScience & Tech$75kPublic Benefit$70kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Leveraged Foundation$6,250,0005100%
Zeta Charter Schools Inc$2,377,00048%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$1,501,9152n/a
Nyu Langone Hospitals$850,45430%
The Hun School of Princeton$565,70821%
Community Funds Inc$500,0001n/a
Robin Hood Foundation$301,50130%
Mott Haven Academy Charter School$270,00031%
Education Reform Now Inc$150,00021%
Studentsfirst New York Inc$100,00025%
Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of Quad Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Leveraged Foundation$6,250,0005100%
Zeta Charter Schools Inc$2,377,00048%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$1,501,9152n/a
Nyu Langone Hospitals$850,45430%
The Hun School of Princeton$565,70821%
Community Funds Inc$500,0001n/a
Robin Hood Foundation$301,50130%
Mott Haven Academy Charter School$270,00031%
Education Reform Now Inc$150,00021%
Studentsfirst New York Inc$100,00025%
Year Up Inc$100,00020%
Thread Inc$100,00021%
The School for Ethics and Global Leadership$79,65321%
Studentsfirst New York Institute Inc$50,00014%
New Heights Youth Inc$50,00021%
The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc$50,00022%
Good Plus Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Seton Education Partners$20,00010%
Up Education Network$20,00010%
Uplift Education$20,00010%
Braven Inc$20,00010%
The Greathearts Foundation Inc$20,0001n/a
The Brotherhood Sister Sol Inc$15,00020%
Teach for America Inc$10,00010%
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Inc$10,00010%
Yale University$10,0001n/a
Council on Foundations Inc$7,50010%
Summer Search$5,00010%
Eyelliance Inc$5,00010%
Georgetown University$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Quad Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeveraged Foundation: $6,250,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetZeta Charter Schools Inc: $2,377,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetNyu Langone Hospitals: $850,454 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hun School of Princeton: $565,708 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $301,501 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMott Haven Academy Charter School: $270,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetEducation Reform Now Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetStudentsfirst New York Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetYear Up Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThread Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership: $79,653 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetStudentsfirst New York Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNew Heights Youth Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Friends of Foundation Academy Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGood Plus Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSeton Education Partners: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUp Education Network: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUplift Education: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBraven Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brotherhood Sister Sol Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCouncil on Foundations Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSummer Search: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEyelliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgetown University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Walton Family Foundation IncAR17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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.

Compare Quad Family Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Quad Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Quad Family 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.

About Quad Family Foundation

How much does Quad Family Foundation give?
Quad Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $4,686,593 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Quad Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Philanthropy (35%), Health (5%).
Who are Quad Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Leveraged Foundation ($6.3M), Zeta Charter Schools Inc ($2.4M), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($1.5M).
Does Quad Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Quad Family Foundation 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 Quad Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walton Family Foundation Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund.
Where is Quad Family Foundation based?
Quad Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 52 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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