· Private foundation
The Quaker Houghton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Quaker Houghton Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Blackbaud Giving Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Quaker Houghton Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 43 organizations, $13k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINDING YOUR MIND | $1,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR HELPING INC | $1,000 |
| TREASURE COAST WILDLIFE HOSPITAL INC | $1,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH KINGS & QUEENS INC | $1,000 |
| WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $1,000 |
| DEXTER DIAMOND GROUP | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $865 |
| FOODLINK | $636 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $582 |
| WORLD VISION INC | $400 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $370 |
| BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT | $300 |
| PINE2PINK FOUNDATION | $250 |
| SAINT MICHAEL SCHOOL | $200 |
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 (FY21–24, $461) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
44 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- MTMONTGOMERY THEATER INC2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +15%
- UYURBAN YOUTH KINGS & QUEENS3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +273%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- ARARCHBISHOP RYAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $2k
- CHCROSSROADS HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +73%
- FOFriends of Radnor 284 Incone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue ×12
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is PINE2PINK 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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 133 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
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 THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH KINGS & QUEENS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Radnor 284 Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST WILDLIFE HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MINDING YOUR MIND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LYRIC ↗
- Who funds WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DEXTER DIAMOND GROUP ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds VEDAGITA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATRICIAN SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NORRISTOWN ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association ↗
- Who funds BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS DETROIT ↗
- Who funds SMILE FOR BROOKLYN ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Foundations Community Partnership · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Arcadia Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · Penn Community Bank Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Independence Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust
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 The Quaker Houghton 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sanford School — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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