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Quest 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.

$7.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
173
Grants FY2024
168
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
144 to 189
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$110M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Quest Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving172$7.5M12%
FY2023168$7.3M9%
FY2022186$7.8M10%
FY2021171$7.1M11%
FY2020189$7.4M22%
FY2019182$6.7M29%
FY2018171$6.9M61%
FY2017144$5.3Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$21MYouth Development$13MHuman Services$5.2MHealth$3.9MArts & Culture$3.6MCrime & Legal$2.6MRecreation & Sports$1.6MHousing & Shelter$1.1MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of the Children-Portland$1,095,00082%
Teach for America Inc$1,050,00070%
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area$936,00077%
College Track$838,10271%
Reading Partners$800,00071%
New Leaders Inc$785,00061%
Fresh Lifelines for Youth Inc$698,00081%
Summer Search$685,32571%
Aim High for High School$650,00072%
The Athenian School$606,92871%
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All grantees of Quest Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of the Children-Portland$1,095,00082%
Teach for America Inc$1,050,00070%
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area$936,00077%
College Track$838,10271%
Reading Partners$800,00071%
New Leaders Inc$785,00061%
Fresh Lifelines for Youth Inc$698,00081%
Summer Search$685,32571%
Aim High for High School$650,00072%
The Athenian School$606,92871%
Eastside College Preparatory School Inc$602,00071%
Kipp Socal Public Schools$600,00040%
Down Syndrome Connection of the Bay Area$600,000716%
The Oakland Public Education Fund$599,70071%
Teen Esteem$505,000628%
The Northwest Academy$496,20071%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma-Marin$450,00061%
There With Care of the Bay Area$436,00075%
Mission Graduates$422,25062%
Ace Charter School$421,27570%
College is Real Inc$410,000718%
Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project Inc$406,76474%
Springboard Collaborative$400,00061%
Center for Early Intervention on Deafness$400,00083%
Lincoln Park Zoological Society$399,20080%
De la Salle North Catholic High School$395,0008n/a
Peer Health Exchange Inc$387,10261%
Bay Area Community Resources Inc$383,63150%
Urban Initiatives Inc$372,47972%
Elevate Oregon$371,00079%
Friends of the Children- New York$367,50043%
Breakthrough Silicon Valley$365,00064%
Ujima Family Recovery Services$365,00053%
Discovery Counseling Center$360,00074%
First Graduate$350,00064%
Mindful Life Project$339,98674%
Cristo Rey San Jose High School$338,08570%
Asante Africa Foundation Inc$335,79576%
Childrens Center$300,00062%
Covenant House California$300,00050%
Safe & Sound$300,00031%
St Marys Academy$300,0006n/a
Child Advocates of Silicon Valley Inc$300,00062%
Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc$300,00061%
Shelter Inc$295,00051%
Girlventures$280,00078%
Collegespring Inc$280,00062%
CASA of San Mateo County$275,15572%
Upward Roots Inc$271,000727%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$270,80050%
Envision Education Inc$270,30050%
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill$270,00070%
Tandem Partners in Early Learning$260,00072%
Spark$260,000534%
Challenge Day Fund$258,546628%
Urban Prep Academies$250,00051%
El Sistema Usasalinas Inc$250,000514%
Off the Street Club$250,00063%
California Academy of Sciences$249,00050%
Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc$245,00052%
Naturebridge$243,00051%
Super Stars Literacy Inc$240,00034%
Juma Ventures Inc$240,00061%
Chapter 510 Ink$235,00077%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools$233,37550%
Cantare Con Vivo$230,00085%
Bay Area Discovery Museum$227,29651%
Kipp Bay Area Schools$225,00030%
Onegoal$225,00060%
Sacred Heart Nativity School$220,00053%
Global Glimpse$216,00062%
School of Imagination Inc$215,00042%
Youthpower365$210,00032%
Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development$210,00061%
Field Museum of Natural History$209,51740%
The Fit Kids Foundation Inc$204,00075%
The Tech Interactive$200,00050%
Oakland Promise$200,00041%
Vida Verde Nature Education$200,00053%
Natural High$200,000710%
Assistance League of Omaha Nebraska Inc$200,00079%
Parenting Now$197,22253%
Friends of the Children - Lane County$195,000310%
San Francisco CASA$195,00052%
Ronald McDonald House Charities in Omaha Inc$195,00053%
Monterey Jazz Festival$195,00052%
The Global Village Project Inc$191,00053%
Dovetail Learning Inc$187,594632%
Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream$185,90045%
Family Support Services$183,13061%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area$180,00051%
Bay Area Crisis Nursery$180,00063%
We Care Services For Children$175,00051%
Bridge Meadows$175,00024%
Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc$175,00072%
Wheel to Walk Foundation$175,000623%
Kindering Center$175,00060%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area$175,00052%
Mindful Schools$170,00062%
The People's Music School$170,00062%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$168,93750%
Diablo Ballet$160,00083%
Relief Nursery Inc$160,00041%
The Bay Area Urban Network Inc$160,00057%
Rancho Cielo Inc$159,95661%
East Oakland Youth Development Center$159,95041%
Hope Center for Kids Inc$155,00052%
Assistance League of Diablo Valley$155,00064%
Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative$155,00064%
Berkeley Music Group$155,00061%
Aspire Education Project$153,98069%
Community School for Creative Education$153,35161%
New Day for Children$152,86555%
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation$150,00060%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley$150,00032%
Junior Achievement of Northern California$148,00042%
Oakland Lacrosse Club$147,08065%
Childhaven$146,95050%
Seneca Family of Agencies$145,60150%
Point Reyes Bird Observatory$145,00060%
Serendipity Center Inc$145,00022%
San Francisco Jazz Organization$145,00050%
Aspire Public Schools$142,50040%
If Given a Chance$141,00058%
Genesys Works$140,0006n/a
Uaspire Inc$140,00050%
PathLight International Inc$138,39344%
The Crayon Initiative$138,078413%
Rocketship Education$137,50030%
Partnership 4 Kids Inc$136,00072%
San Francisco Education Fund$132,50041%
Safe Passages$132,00040%
The Ruth Bancroft Garden Inc$130,00061%
Bring Change 2 Mind$130,00042%
I Can Do That Theatre Company$130,00033%
Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc$125,06651%
Partners Fore Golf Inc The First Tee Tri-Valley$125,00046%
Compass Family Services$125,00050%
PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc$123,000519%
Seraphic Fire Inc$120,50061%
East Bay Childrens Law Offices Inc$120,00061%
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County$120,00041%
Grief's Journey the Collective for Hope$120,00047%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula$120,00040%
Street Soccer USA Inc$119,27641%
San Leandro Boys and Girls Club Inc$117,56041%
Rhythmix Cultural Works$115,27377%
Tutoring Chicago$115,00062%
Lighthouse Community Public Schools$115,00011%
Life Learning Academy$114,95331%
Matriculate Inc$112,00041%
St Francis Center of Redwood City$109,42651%
Kid Scoop News$107,640514%
Community Arts Foundation$105,150440%
Camp Phoenix$105,000519%
Environmental Traveling Companions$104,00062%
The Teaching Well Inc$102,02546%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area$100,00021%
Lane Thomas Foundation$100,000411%
San Ramon Valley School Age Child Care Alliance$100,00030%
Richmond Promise Inc$100,00043%
The Art of Yoga Project$100,00054%
Safehome Inc$100,00041%
YES Nature to Neighborhoods$100,00021%
Oakland School for the Arts$99,80040%
Assistance League of Eugene$99,00048%
Montalvo Association$95,48931%
New Door Ventures Fka Golden Gate Community Inc$95,00031%
Hidden Genius Project$95,00041%
Grateful Gatherings$90,00035%
Living Yoga$88,750413%
The Mosaic Project$86,00042%
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc$85,00030%
Shine Together Inc$82,00041%
K to College Dba Supplybankorg$80,00031%
No Limits Foundation D/B/A Camp No Limits$80,00044%
Leap Arts in Education Fka Leap Imagination in Learning$79,00063%
Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation$75,00030%
Spark Promise$75,00016%
Music In Schools Today$75,000410%
Laurel Learning Center$75,00032%
zSharp$75,000311%
Todays Youth Matter$75,00035%
Ignatian Corporation Saint Ignatius High School$75,0003n/a
Mentor Tutor Connection$74,50058%
The Practice Space Inc$73,00034%
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund$71,50022%
East Bay Asian Youth Center$70,00031%
San Francisco Friends School$70,00030%
Luna Kids Dance Inc dba Luna Dance Institute Luna Dance & Creativity$70,00052%
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts$68,00031%
Redlands Symphony Association$66,56933%
Portland State University Foundation$61,08030%
Kate's Club Inc$60,00022%
Reach for the Future$60,0004n/a
Waterside Workshops$60,00024%
Sanford$60,0002n/a
Playworks Education Energized$60,00010%
The Prentice School$60,00060%
Oakland Unified School District$58,7242n/a
Urban Montessori$57,21030%
East Bay Innovation Academy$54,80030%
March of Dimes Inc$53,85320%
Girls on the Run of the Bay Area Inc$53,37942%
Coaching Corps$53,20031%
Emerald Kidsports$52,67922%
Completely Kids$52,25140%
Alameda Education Foundation$52,23552%
Cristo Rey de la Salle East Bay High School Inc$50,0002n/a
De la Salle Academy Inc$50,0002n/a
Chartwell School$50,00011%
Child Advocates of Contra Costa County$50,00013%
Court Appointed Special Advocates$50,00019%
College Summit Inc$50,00012%
Aurum Preparatory Academy Inc$46,30031%
Healthy Moves$45,00059%
COPE Family Support Center Inc$45,00032%
Bay Area Urban Debate Commission$42,00023%
Original Scraper Bike Team Inc$40,000214%
Hanna Boys Center$40,0001n/a
The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated$40,00020%
Direction Service$39,00011%
Youth Homes Inc$38,50020%
Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco$36,80010%
Ngozi Educational and Healthcare Foundation$36,00027%
Lend a Hand Foundation$34,79642%
Future Citizens Foundation Dba the First Tee of Monterey County$34,00021%
Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem$32,50021%
Mercy Housing Inc$31,10710%
Reel Stories dba Camp Reel Stories$30,00025%
Youth Transporation Organization$30,00027%
Special Olympics Northern California Inc$30,00010%
United Way of Lane County$30,00010%
Metropolitan Family Service$30,00020%
Sanford Health Foundation$30,00010%
Boys Club of Napa Inc Boys & Girls Club of Napa Valley$29,00011%
Omena Inc$25,000212%
Parentchild Inc$25,00010%
Jumpstart for Young Children Inc$25,00010%
Game Theory Academy$25,00018%
Yellow Roof Foundation$25,00013%
Alameda Boys & Girls Club Inc$25,00012%
The Winston Preparatory School$25,00010%
Lead Liberated$25,00011%
The Partners Program$25,00025%
The Peninsula Bridge Program$25,00010%
Reflection Foundation$25,0001n/a
Santa Barbara Education Foundation$25,00011%
Suitup Incorporated$25,00011%
Redwood City Education Foundation$25,00013%
Behavioral Health Crisis Services$25,00011%
Alliance for Compassion and Educational Development - Aced$24,00013%
Voices of Hope of Lincoln Inc$23,75221%
Student Program for Academic & Athletic Transition$21,00022%
Assistance League of Kansas City$20,00012%
Seany Foundation$20,00012%
St Anne's Family Services$20,00010%
Next Level Sports Foundation Inc$20,00021%
Fugees Family Inc$19,25312%
Blueprint Schools Network Inc$18,3751n/a
The Charlie Cart Project$16,41712%
Alternatives in Action$16,39010%
Bay Area Teacher Training Institute$15,00014%
Oakland Literacy Coalition Inc$15,00011%
Release Inc$15,00011%
Friends of the Oakland Public Schools Libraries$15,000221%
Salesian Boys and Girls Club$15,00011%
Camp Common Ground$15,000118%
Meridian Park Medical Foundation$13,61510%
Community Alliance for Learning Dba Writercoach Connection$13,50014%
Young Musicians Choral Orchestra$13,00012%
Ising Silicon Valley$12,50011%
Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco$12,02120%
Women's Center for Advancement$10,00010%
Crossroads Ministries$10,0001n/a
Parent Services Project$10,00013%
Arise High School$9,92310%
Loaves Fishes & Computers Inc$9,45521%
Contra Costa Kops for Kids$7,500112%
Friends of the Children$3,97910%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 134 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Quest Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of the Children-Portland: $1,095,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,050,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area: $936,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetCollege Track: $838,102 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetReading Partners: $800,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNew Leaders Inc: $785,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFresh Lifelines for Youth Inc: $698,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSummer Search: $685,325 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAim High for High School: $650,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetThe Athenian School: $606,928 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetEastside College Preparatory School Inc: $602,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetKipp Socal Public Schools: $600,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDown Syndrome Connection of the Bay Area: $600,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetThe Oakland Public Education Fund: $599,700 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTeen Esteem: $505,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetThe Northwest Academy: $496,200 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma-Marin: $450,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetThere With Care of the Bay Area: $436,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetMission Graduates: $422,250 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAce Charter School: $421,275 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCollege is Real Inc: $410,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetBig Sky Youth Empowerment Project Inc: $406,764 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetSpringboard Collaborative: $400,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Early Intervention on Deafness: $400,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetLincoln Park Zoological Society: $399,200 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPeer Health Exchange Inc: $387,102 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBay Area Community Resources Inc: $383,631 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUrban Initiatives Inc: $372,479 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetElevate Oregon: $371,000 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetFriends of the Children- New York: $367,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetBreakthrough Silicon Valley: $365,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetUjima Family Recovery Services: $365,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetDiscovery Counseling Center: $360,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetFirst Graduate: $350,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetMindful Life Project: $339,986 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCristo Rey San Jose High School: $338,085 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAsante Africa Foundation Inc: $335,795 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetChildrens Center: $300,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCovenant House California: $300,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSafe & Sound: $300,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetChild Advocates of Silicon Valley Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHuckleberry Youth Programs Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetShelter Inc: $295,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGirlventures: $280,000 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetCollegespring Inc: $280,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCASA of San Mateo County: $275,155 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetUpward Roots Inc: $271,000 over 7y, 27% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $270,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

East Bay Community FoundationCA73.3× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Golden State Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · The Barrios Trust · The San Francisco Foundation · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · June & Julian Foss Foundation · Tipping Point Community

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.

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How do I get to Quest Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Quest 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.

About Quest Foundation

How much does Quest Foundation give?
Quest Foundation reported 173 grants totaling $7,523,675 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 144 and 189 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Quest Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Youth Development (23%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Quest Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of the Children-Portland ($1.1M), Teach for America Inc ($1.1M), Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area ($936k).
Does Quest Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Quest Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Quest Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation, Golden State Community Foundation.
Where is Quest Foundation based?
Quest Foundation is based in CA.

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 416 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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