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The Quaker Houghton Foundation at a glance

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The Quaker Houghton Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2023
58
Grants FY2023
20
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

56
’21
51
’22
43
’23
12
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$214kHealth$13kArts & Culture$7kYouth Development$7kEducation$5kAnimals$5kHuman Services$5kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2023 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
20
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$1,000
SOCIETY FOR HELPING INC$1,000
MINDING YOUR MIND$1,000
TREASURE COAST WILDLIFE HOSPITAL INC$1,000
URBAN YOUTH KINGS & QUEENS INC$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $150 → 14%DAYSTAR FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN INC: $100 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $125 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25 → 14%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $36 → 7%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

ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24k · 44 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
56

Total granted

$24k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+25%

Still filing today

82%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • MT
    MONTGOMERY THEATER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +15%
  • UY
    URBAN YOUTH KINGS & QUEENS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +273%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • AR
    ARCHBISHOP RYAN HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • CH
    CROSSROADS HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +73%
  • THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -19%
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
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
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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.

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5
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
6
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(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.

International
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
8
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
9
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

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…

Health
12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

92 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. 92 of the 133 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
69/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $214,334 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND+3 more: $404 · PhilanthropySAVE MICKEY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · OtherSAVE MICKEY…BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,810 · OtherBOY SCOUTS …ARCHBISHOP RYAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1,800 · OtherARCHBISHOP …TREASURE COAST WILDLIFE HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · OtherMEL BLOUNT YOUTH HOME: $1,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR HELPING INC: $1,000 · OtherA PROMISE OF LOVE: $1,000 · OtherTHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $1,000 · OtherHEIGHTENED HEARTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherDOROTHY DAY HOUSE: $1,000 · OtherVEDAGITA CENTER INC: $1,000 · Other+77 more: $13,311 · Other+77 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,300 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,150 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,080 · HealthCROSSROADS HOUSE: $1,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthMINDING YOUR MIND: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $623 · HealthSMILE FOR BROOKLYN: $500 · Health+14 more: $1,317 · HealthMONTGOMERY THEATER INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE LYRIC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureKIMMEL CENTER INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $270 · Arts & CultureURBAN YOUTH KINGS & QUEENS: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentFriends of Radnor 284 Inc: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentWashington and Lee University: $1,800 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,000 · EducationSANFORD SCHOOL: $400 · EducationEAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200 · EducationJohn Carroll University: $200 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $142 · Education+2 more: $90 · EducationDEXTER DIAMOND GROUP: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$214,738Other$26,921Health$9,970Arts & Culture$6,270Youth Development$4,000Education$3,832Recreation & Sports$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $214,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY THEATER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN YOUTH KINGS & QUEENS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREASURE COAST WILDLIFE HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEXTER DIAMOND GROUP: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LYRIC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVEDAGITA CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPATRICIAN SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NORRISTOWN: $810 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $636 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $623 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBryan Symphony Orchestra Association: $600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE FOR BROOKLYN: $500 over 1y, 19% of budgetSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS DETROIT: $500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $403 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANFORD SCHOOL: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $390 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $325 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJulias Grace Foundation: $300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYERTOWN AREA MULTI-SERVICE INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE2PINK FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetDISABILITY SERVICES RESOURCE CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $226 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARIOTS FOR HOPE INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $142 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $125 over 2y, 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 Philadelphia Foun…Connelly FoundationFoundations Community…The Patricia Kind Fam…Chester County Commun…United Way of Greater…The Arcadia FoundationGenuardi Family Found…Penn Community Bank F…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Independence Foundati…W W Smith Charitable …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA19.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Quaker Houghton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Quaker Houghton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report 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

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How do I get to The Quaker Houghton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Quaker Houghton Foundation 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 133 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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