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Quadrivium

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.

$21M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$4.8M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$64MPublic Benefit$34MArts & Culture$14MCivil Rights$12MScience & Tech$12MEducation$3.7MHealth$3.0MPhilanthropy$1.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $930k
  • $250k+14 grants · $20M
$500,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$4,750,000
POTENTIAL ENERGY COALITION$3,000,000
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS$2,000,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENC$1,638,604
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$1,500,000
PEN AMERICA$1,250,000
UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE$1,250,000
CLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL$1,000,000
SECURE DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
CLIMATE CENTRAL INC$1,000,000
NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL$500,000
INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE$500,000
CORTICO CORPORATION$250,000
DEMOCRACY WORKS INC$250,000
MYRIAD USA INC$200,000
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 (FY19–20, $750k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $250k → 10%NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $250k → 16%NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $250k → 16%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

WA
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116M · 27 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
24

Total granted

$116M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+40%

Still filing today

89%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $990k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationScience & TechPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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

  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    6× · 2017–2024 · $25M · revenue +202%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +78%
  • AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • ED
    ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND FOR METHANESAT
    one grant, 2019 · $11M
  • PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +347%
  • MC
    Mercatus Center Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -33%
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 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
2
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
3
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
4
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
7
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
8
Voteamerica

The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.

Civil Rights
9
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
12
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; the most unlike its peers is Dia Center for the Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 62 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
34/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $25,091,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCOR…WINDWARD FUND: $9,400,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUNDCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $5,000,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INCNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,500,000 · Environment+2 more: $1,350,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND FOR METHANESAT: $11,000,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUN…Potential Energy Coalition Inc: $6,000,000 · OtherPotential Energy Coalitio…THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: $6,000,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSSECURE DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION: $2,225,000 · OtherSECURE DEMOCRACY FOUNDATI…Upstream USA Inc: $2,500,000 · OtherUpstream USA Inc+21 more: $5,417,133 · Other+21 moreANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $12,052,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION L…DEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $8,750,000 · Civil RightsDEMOCRACY WORKS I…PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $1,000,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $380,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $11,733,692 · Science & TechAMERICAN ASSO…CLIMATE CENTRAL INC: $5,500,000 · Science & TechCLIMATE CENTR…+3 more: $812,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN J…THE 19TH NEWS: $4,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 19TH N…PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $3,341,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERIC…DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $850,000 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER…AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $340,000 · Arts & CultureUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC: $8,298,000 · Public BenefitUNITE AME…RepresentUs Education Fund: $2,750,000 · Public BenefitRepresent…THE NISKANEN CENTER INC: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitTHE NISKA…+2 more: $250,000 · Public BenefitCODEORG: $1,500,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,000,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE-US: $500,000 · EducationCivic Nation: $500,000 · EducationCONTINA IMPACT: $400,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $285,000 · Education
Environment$42,341,000Other$33,142,133Civil Rights$22,182,000Science & Tech$18,045,692Arts & Culture$14,031,000Public Benefit$12,298,000Education$4,185,000

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 budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $25,091,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $12,052,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $11,733,692 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $9,400,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $8,750,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC: $8,298,000 over 6y, 70% of budgetPotential Energy Coalition Inc: $6,000,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC: $5,500,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $5,000,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $5,000,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $4,000,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $3,341,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $2,750,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetUpstream USA Inc: $2,500,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCODEORG: $1,500,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NISKANEN CENTER INC: $1,000,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $850,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWHEN WE ALL VOTE: $750,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHELENA GROUP FOUNDATION: $561,133 over 1y, 21% of budgetCORTICO CORPORATION: $500,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE-US: $500,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetAMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCivic Nation: $500,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $500,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCONTINA IMPACT: $400,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $300,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $285,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS: $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLISTEN FIRST PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetPACIFIC WILD ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVOTE RUN LEAD INC: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTHY DEMOCRACY FUND: $80,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $40,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The William & Flora H…The Rockefeller Found…Democracy Fund IncGreater Washington Co…Rockefeller Brothers …New Venture FundJewish Communal FundThe Chicago Community…Marin Community Found…Tides FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA29.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Quadrivium funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quadrivium. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cortico Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Quadrivium?

Find your warmest path to Quadrivium 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 62 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home