· Private foundation
Quo Vadis-Gavell Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERIAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY | $30,800 |
| INTERNATIONAL GUGAK JAZZ INSTITUTE | $18,000 |
| MEDICAL U OF WARSAW SCHOLARSHIP FOR VISITING DOCTOR | $16,719 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $15,000 |
| BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $13,000 |
| FRIENS OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KOREA | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| BOSTON CONSERVATORY | $5,000 |
| SLOW FOOD USA | $5,000 |
| WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES | $5,000 |
| PALESTINIAN CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $2,500 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $841 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Quo Vadis-Gavell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC2× · 2023–2024 · $33k · revenue +9%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +36%- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation3× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC GALAone grant, 2021 · $10k
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC AC GAVELL THRIVE SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2022 · $5k
- DMDENVER MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
American college of occupational and environmental medicine (acoem) provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces and environments by: educating health professionals and the public; stimulating research;…
To provide for education, scholarships and other charitable purposes related to the culinary profession
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
The Foundation's mission is to provide ophthalmology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Promoting excellence, education, professionalism and collegiality in the culinary profession
The Organization operates exclusively for the benefit of the charitable purposes of Boston Children's Hospital (the Hospital) and the affiliated Foundations. It works jointly with the Hospital and the Foundations in developing and…
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds SLOW FOOD USA INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DENVER FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Quo Vadis-Gavell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quo Vadis-Gavell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Korean Cultural Society of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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