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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k105 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k66 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEEN ESTEEM | $200,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PORTLAND | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SF BAY AREA | $150,000 |
| COLLEGE TRACK | $125,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $120,000 |
| OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $115,000 |
| FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH | $100,000 |
| READING PARTNERS | $100,000 |
| SAFE AND SOUND (FKA SAN FRANCISCO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTER) | $100,000 |
| SUMMER SEARCH BAY AREA | $100,000 |
| THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL | $99,340 |
| BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $90,000 |
| NEW LEADERS | $85,000 |
| EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $84,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
276 repeat relationships — 152 still active in FY2024, 124 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $546k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +12%- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA7× · 2018–2024 · $936k · revenue +149%
- CTCOLLEGE TRACK7× · 2017–2024 · $838k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- LCLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $115k · revenue +88%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - NEW YORKone grant, 2021 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…
Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.
At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…
Our mission is to educate the whole child using a combination of innovative curriculum and instruction along with social/emotional education embedded in the program. students will be enabled to reach their innate intellectual, creative,…
To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Community Public Schools and the most unlike its peers is Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
272 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 272 of the 416 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Teen Esteem ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHWEST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds MISSION GRADUATES ↗
- Who funds ACE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds College is Real Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Early Intervention on Deafness ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE OREGON ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UJIMA FAMILY RECOVERY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Discovery Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
- Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Quest Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bridge Meadows — 36% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Elevate Oregon — 28% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Serendipity Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Parenting Now — 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Childrens Center — 0% of income from government
- Seraphic Fire Inc — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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