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Quaker City 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$269k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.8MAnimals$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.0MArts & Culture$1.0MPhilanthropy$723kEnvironment$638kHealth$182kReligion$168kOther$0
02FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k54 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $348k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $528k
  • $250k+1 grant · $269k
$1,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HOUNDS FOUNDATION$268,504
MONTGOMERY SCHOOL$156,542
BOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA$115,872
WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST$85,630
BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY$60,000
RADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION$60,000
SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY$50,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$48,750
THE HAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW$45,000
UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW$40,000
Individual grant recipient$38,038
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PA$32,815
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIF$28,875
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$25,000
BELIEVE AND ACHIEVE FOUNDATION$15,000
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 (FY17–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%CARIDAD CENTER: $500 → 11%SAVEOURALLIES: $525 → 13%CARIDAD CENTER: $500 → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $500 → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $500 → 11%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%CARIDAD CENTER: $500 → 11%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%CARIDAD CENTER: $500 → 11%CARIDAD CENTER: $500 → 11%HARK ALS: $57k → 5%HARK-ALS: $21k → 5%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 14%FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE: $200 → 22%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100 → 14%BELIEVE AND ACHIEVE FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%BELIEVE AND ACHIEVE FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%CARE2 FUND AT USLI INC: $1k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%ALL 4 PAWS RESCUE: $100 → 6%PROJECT HOME: $500 → 22%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
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 131 repeat orgs$773k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

131 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

131
138

Total granted

$8.7M
$743k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+17%

Still filing today

66%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TH
    THE HOUNDS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +4% · 92% of their budget
  • BL
    BOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +79%
  • HS
    Historical Society of Pennsylvania
    8× · 2017–2024 · $443k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • RH
    RADNOR HOUNDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $247k
  • U
    USET
    one grant, 2017 · $108k
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL HORSE
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
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.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
2
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…

Environment
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
10
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Andalusia Foundation. 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

165 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 165 of the 288 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/165
Grantees still filing
115/165
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO: $1,070,145 · EducationBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHAR…MONTGOMERY SCHOOL: $394,391 · EducationMONTGOMERY SCHOOLPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $380,267 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $264,092 · EducationSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEM…LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGEDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $115,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITY: $101,500 · Education+20 more: $191,465 · Education+20 moreHistorical Society of Pennsylvania: $442,520 · OtherHistorical Society of Pennsylvani…USET FOUNDATION: $283,500 · OtherUSET FOUNDATIONRADNOR HOUNDS FOUNDATION: $246,832 · OtherRADNOR HOUNDS FOUNDATIONRyerss Farm for Aged Equines: $153,000 · OtherRyerss Farm for Aged EquinesST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $150,500 · OtherUSET: $107,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $103,580 · OtherSEWANEE THE UNIV OF THE SOUTH: $102,250 · OtherLAFAYETTE ANNUAL FUND: $102,000 · Other+122 more: $1,137,287 · Other+122 moreTHE HOUNDS FOUNDATION: $1,513,604 · PhilanthropyTHE HOUNDS FOUNDATIONHAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC: $366,100 · PhilanthropyHAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE …+6 more: $26,760 · PhilanthropyRADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION: $266,376 · Recreation & SportsRADNOR HUN…THE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATION: $197,037 · Recreation & SportsTHE DEVON …UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC: $146,680 · Recreation & SportsUPPERVILLE…Washington International Horse Show: $91,000 · Recreation & SportsWashington…PENNSYLVANIA NAT'L HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION: $84,150 · Recreation & SportsPENNSYLVAN…LPHSA INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsLPHSA INC+5 more: $51,000 · Recreation & Sports+5 moreWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $342,295 · EnvironmentNatural Lands Trust Inc: $118,164 · EnvironmentBRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE: $117,990 · Environment+6 more: $31,913 · EnvironmentBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $306,215 · Arts & CultureChester County Historical Society: $84,356 · Arts & Culture1883 FOUNDATION: $75,485 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $45,300 · Arts & CultureFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $206,375 · Community Improvement+1 more: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Education$2,666,860Other$2,828,969Philanthropy$1,906,464Recreation & Sports$886,243Environment$610,362Arts & Culture$511,356Community Improvement$209,375

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HOUNDS FOUNDATION: $1,513,604 over 7y, 92% of budgetBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO: $1,070,145 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania: $442,520 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY SCHOOL: $394,391 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $380,267 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC: $366,100 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $342,295 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $306,215 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetRADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION: $266,376 over 5y, 46% of budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $264,092 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $206,375 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATION: $197,037 over 4y, 11% of budgetRyerss Farm for Aged Equines: $153,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC: $146,680 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $118,164 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE: $117,990 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $101,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWashington International Horse Show: $91,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetChester County Historical Society: $84,356 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA NAT'L HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION: $84,150 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetHARK-ALS INC: $77,720 over 2y, 5.6% of budget1883 FOUNDATION: $75,485 over 4y, 47% of budgetLPHSA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $49,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $36,840 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE & ACHIEVE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $29,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHARITY BALL: $24,600 over 6y, 16% of budgetTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRUBICON TRAIL FOUNDATION: $18,340 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE DEVON HORSE SHOW & COUNTRY FAIR INC: $18,275 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $16,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $16,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMFHA Foundation: $15,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRED HILLS HORSE TRIALS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRADNOR HUNT PONY CLUB INC: $12,500 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetTHE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA: $12,045 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH RX INC: $12,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $11,491 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,675 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE PLACID LAND CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE HOUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO ↗
  • Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC ↗
  • Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds RADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC ↗
  • Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Washington International Horse Show ↗
  • Who funds Chester County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA NAT'L HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARK-ALS INC ↗
  • Who funds 1883 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LPHSA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗

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.

E Murdoch Family Foun…Chester County Commun…Hamilton Family Found…The Philadelphia Foun…Connelly FoundationThe William Penn Foun…Le Vine Family Founda…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Barra Foundation …The Snider FoundationHankin FoundationUnited Way of Greater…
E Murdoch Family FoundationPA49.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: E Murdoch Family Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Le Vine Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Snider Foundation · Hankin Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Caridad Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
29report 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 Quaker City Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Quaker City 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.

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 288 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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