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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $980k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | $751,915 |
| LEVERAGED FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| LEVERAGED FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON | $534,708 |
| LEVERAGED FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS DBA NYU LANGONE HEALTH - PARENT CORPS | $400,000 |
| THE LINSLY SCHOOL (WHEELING WV) | $249,953 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL - UNC ATHL STUDENT-ATHLETE CAREER | $200,051 |
| HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION - CERTIFICATE IN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT & L | $199,983 |
| HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION - FAMILY TEACHING & TEACHER LEADERSHIP | $179,995 |
| NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS DBA NYU LANGONE HEALTH - TRUSTEE DEAN'S FUND | $100,000 |
| STUDENTS FIRST NEW YORK | $50,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL - GENERAL | $19,988 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LFLEVERAGED FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +301% · 100% of their budget
- ZCZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +756%
- NLNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS3× · 2020–2024 · $850k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ZCZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC - MT EDEN SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $750k
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k
- CFCOMMUNITY FUNDS INCone grant, 2020 · $500k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seton Education Partners and the most unlike its peers is Leveraged Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LEVERAGED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTT HAVEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTSFIRST NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The School for Ethics and Global Leadership ↗
- Who funds STUDENTSFIRST NEW YORK INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UP EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Quad Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Up Education Network — 22% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Hun School of Princeton — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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