Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Quest for the Best
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $710k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 85
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,998
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 85
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Quest for the Best funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 64 | $703k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 85 | $641k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $551k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $491k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $343k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $325k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $210k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $284k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifetime Wells International | $554,968 | 8 | 15% |
| Norristown Zoological Society | $354,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Quest Therapeutic Services Inc | $168,144 | 7 | 3% |
| The Wetlands Institute | $134,833 | 4 | 2% |
| Williamson College of the Trades | $126,970 | 6 | 0% |
| La Salle University | $103,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Nurturing Minds Inc | $97,492 | 5 | 2% |
| Trellis for Tomorrow | $83,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc | $82,220 | 2 | 2% |
| Ann's Heart Inc | $71,030 | 3 | 7% |
Show all 139 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($594k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Quest for the Best supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 116 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Philabundance · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · United Way of Chester County Inc · Justamere Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Quest for the Best?
Find your warmest path to Quest for the Best 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 Quest for the Best
- How much does Quest for the Best give?
- Quest for the Best reported 68 grants totaling $709,744 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 85 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Quest for the Best fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (17%), Education (17%), Health (12%).
- Who are Quest for the Best's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lifetime Wells International ($555k), Norristown Zoological Society ($355k), Quest Therapeutic Services Inc ($168k).
- Does Quest for the Best fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Quest for the Best accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Quest for the Best?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, W W Smith Charitable Trust, The Gordon Charter Foundation.
- Where is Quest for the Best based?
- Quest for the Best is based in PA.
Play a game based on Quest for the Best’s filings →