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Sqa Foundation Inc

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.

$433k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$169k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$850kArts & Culture$847kReligion$663kEducation$617kYouth Development$245kRecreation & Sports$195kPublic Safety & Disaster$170kHealth$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $289k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SQA EDUCATION INC$169,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$70,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
FRIENDS SEMINARY$20,000
LADIES EMPOWERMENT & ACTION PROGRAM$20,000
PUBLIC THEATRE$20,000
TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL$10,000
DOCTOR'S WITHOUT BORDERS USA$10,000
LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE$10,000
SMILE TRAIN$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
MAMADELE FOUNDATION$6,000
SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $13k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 36 repeat orgs$599k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
46

Total granted

$3.1M
$532k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+43%

Still filing today

69%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HS
    Hope Stone Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $210k · revenue +12%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2017–2023 · $170k · revenue +46%
  • LM
    LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • CS
    CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES
    one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +24%
  • LL
    LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +42%
  • USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +60%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
5
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
6
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Berggruen Institute
Education
10
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
12
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barnes Foundation; the most unlike its peers is O Street Museum Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 88 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
52/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SQA EDUCATION INC: $825,489 · OtherSQA EDUCATION INCFRIENDS SEMINARY: $532,805 · OtherFRIENDS SEMINARYIndividual grant recipient: $207,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $115,000 · OtherPUBLIC THEATRE: $110,000 · OtherECOLE BILINGUE DBA ECOLE BILINGUE DE BERKELEY: $100,000 · Other+34 more: $524,970 · Other+34 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $340,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE U…CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $80,000 · EducationCROSSROADS SCHOOL…DELRAY BEACH YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION COR: $74,000 · EducationDELRAY BEACH YOUT…STARTINGBLOC NFP: $45,000 · EducationSTARTINGBLOC NFPThe New School: $25,066 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $25,000 · Education+4 more: $27,000 · EducationHope Stone Inc: $210,000 · Arts & CultureHope Stone In…LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureLA MAMA EXPER…MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+20 more: $125,142 · Arts & Culture+20 moreTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $100,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 · InternationalDIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL: $7,000 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $170,000 · Human ServicesRISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $12,696 · Human ServicesLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · HealthNORTH SALEM VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE COR: $20,000 · HealthBLAIR COUNTY SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $10,500 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE: $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsGainesville Area Community Tennis Association: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR FUND: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,415,264Education$616,066Arts & Culture$475,142International$187,100Human Services$182,696Health$100,500Recreation & Sports$63,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $340,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHope Stone Inc: $210,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $170,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $120,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetECOLE BILINGUE DBA ECOLE BILINGUE DE BERKELEY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELRAY BEACH YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION COR: $74,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetLADIES EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION PROGRAM INC: $62,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARTINGBLOC NFP: $45,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $25,066 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Steady Buckets: $25,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SALEM VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE COR: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIATA COLLEGE: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGainesville Area Community Tennis Association: $16,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR FAMILIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $12,696 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $11,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLAIR COUNTY SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $10,500 over 3y, 87% of budgetMIAMI BEACH POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAMADELE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetO STREET MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Open Society InstituteCalifornia Community …Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Open Society Institute · California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sqa Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sqa Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sqa Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sqa Foundation Inc 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.

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 88 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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