Maryland · Private foundation
Solar Quest Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $380k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 30
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Solar Quest Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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 | 22 | $380k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $396k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $345k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $270k | 74% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $668k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| N Street Village Inc | $220,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Some Inc | $210,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Environmental and Energy Study Institute | $100,000 | 5 | 3% |
| House of Ruth | $95,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Better Basics Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
| All Faiths Food Bank Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Healthy Harvest Food Bank Inc | $68,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dawning Family Services Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Nourishphx | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kids in Need Foundation | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($568k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Solar Quest Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Marni & Morris Propp II Family Foundation Inc · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Good360 · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Solar Quest Foundation Inc
- How much does Solar Quest Foundation Inc give?
- Solar Quest Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $380,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 30 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Solar Quest Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (24%), Human Services (17%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
- Who are Solar Quest Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: N Street Village Inc ($220k), Some Inc ($210k), Environmental and Energy Study Institute ($100k).
- Does Solar Quest Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Solar Quest Foundation Inc 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 Solar Quest Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marni & Morris Propp II Family Foundation Inc, Give Lively Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Solar Quest Foundation Inc based?
- Solar Quest Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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