· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
(see schedule o)
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.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 STUDENTSFIRST NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds The School for Ethics and Global Leadership ↗
- Who funds STUDENTSFIRST NEW YORK INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds UP EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Quad Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quad Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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