· Private foundation
Quest for the Best
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $154k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $435k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONAL | $70,998 |
| ANN'S HEART INC | $50,000 |
| WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES | $38,900 |
| HELPING HANDS INC | $35,000 |
| QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC | $33,000 |
| TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW | $30,000 |
| CHARLES A MELTON ARTS & EDUCATION CENTER | $30,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $27,548 |
| GREENHOUSE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES IND CTR | $23,630 |
| ALLEGHENY COUNTY CHIEFS OF POLICE ASSOC | $23,108 |
| HORIZONS AT GREENE STREET FRIENDS SCHOOL | $16,500 |
| MANNA | $15,000 |
| BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD | $15,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $554k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +23% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
81 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LWLIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2025 · $555k · revenue +67%
- NZNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +201%
- QTQUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $168k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- FPFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $53k · revenue +354%
- BCBULGARIAN CULTURAL CTR OF PANJDEone grant, 2017 · $40k
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $26k
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.
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
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Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Dignity Housing's mission is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty that confronts low-income families and individuals in the City of Philadelphia.
To end family homelessness through direct aid, direct services, and advocacy.
Philadelphia veterans comfort house was established to give homeless veterans a chance to start over and become productive members of society while providing the foundation on which veterans can begin to rebuild and maintain a support for…
People's place ii, inc. is dedicated to becoming the agency of choice to help people find their path to growth and independence. to this end, people's place ii, inc. identifies the social and mental health needs of delaware residents and…
Shelter services inc provides temporary shelter to the homeless from multiple counties and facilitates programs to prevent homelessness through various housing/rent/utility assistance services.
Mission: we listen, care and help. every day. vision: a community where anyone can achieve their full potential. programs: our services treat mental health issues; reduce substance use; shelter, feed, educate and seek permanent housing for…
How this is measured
127 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. 127 of the 184 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 LIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ANN'S HEART INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO ↗
- Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE WOMENS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (IUP) ↗
- Who funds ORION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES A MELTON ARTS & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE ↗
- Who funds BRINGING HOPE HOME ↗
- Who funds EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNTY CHIEFS OF POLICE ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Quest for the Best funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quest for the Best. Bigger dots raise more.
- Delaware Zoological Society Inc: 16% of income from government
- The Home of the Brave Foundation: 8% of income from government
- The Wetlands Institute: 2% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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