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The Quarry Fund

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$692k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$3.2MInternational$2.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$574kHealth$555kReligion$450kYouth Development$157kRecreation & Sports$148kFood & Nutrition$109kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $692k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL$691,732
YALE DIVINITY COLLEGE$114,679
TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE$110,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
BOYS TOWN - OMAHA$40,000
PINNACLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,475
HEALING ARTS PROJECT INC (HAPI)$25,000
DORSET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$15,000
WELLESLEY CENTERS FOR WOMEN$10,000
HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION$10,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$10,000
PLEBEIAN HELPERS INC$10,000
ABILITY360$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PLEBEIAN HELPERS INC: $10k → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $500 → 7%PLEBEIAN HELPERS INC: $5k → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $500 → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $500 → 7%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $350 → 7%CHERISH CENTER: $600 → 7%CHERISH CENTER: $500 → 7%CHERISH CENTER: $200 → 7%ABILITY360: $10k → 11%ABILITY360: $8k → 11%ABILITY360: $5k → 11%ABILITY360: $5k → 11%ABILITY360: $5k → 11%ABILITY360: $2k → 11%ABILITY360: $2k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $250 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
VT
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 66 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

66 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
34

Total granted

$4.6M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+48%

Still filing today

52%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • WC
    Wellesley College
    8× · 2017–2025 · $208k · revenue +63%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $107k · revenue +31%
  • HA
    HEALING ARTS PROJECT INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION - FRONTLINE FAMILIES FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • SO
    SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS UCCC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • HH
    HEALTHY HOMES
    one grant, 2019 · $9k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

3
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
4
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
7
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
Multicare South King Health Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

9
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
12
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Okoboji 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDevelopmental Disabilities …Independent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsLocal History MuseumsCancer Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%41%35–55yr16%54%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/59
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,506

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.

04the grantee network

53 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 105 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
39/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Trustees of Hamilton College — $2,448,351 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton CollegeWellesley College — $208,242 · EducationWellesley College+5 more — $22,750 · EducationOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $2,023,732 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC …+2 more — $12,700 · InternationalAMERICAN RED CROSS — $573,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSYALE DIVINITY COLLEGE — $438,179 · OtherYALE DIVINITY COLLEGEPINNACLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $146,965 · OtherPINNACLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBOYS TOWN - OMAHA — $142,050 · OtherBOYS TOWN - OMAHADORSET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $139,200 · OtherDORSET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHYALE UNIVERSITY — $102,500 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY+61 more — $357,055 · Other+61 moreMAYO CLINIC — $350,000 · HealthHEALING ARTS PROJECT INC — $100,000 · Health+11 more — $16,850 · HealthHISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC — $112,994 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $11,350 · Arts & CulturePEARSON LAKES ART CENTER — $6,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $6,750 · Arts & CultureHELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION INC — $74,500 · Human ServicesABILITY360 INC — $36,979 · Human ServicesPLEBEIANHELPERS INC — $15,000 · Human Services+3 more — $3,400 · Human ServicesST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $107,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $450 · Food & Nutrition
Education$2,679,343International$2,036,432Other$1,899,449Health$466,850Arts & Culture$137,094Human Services$129,879Food & Nutrition$107,450

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $2,448,351 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $2,023,732 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $350,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $208,242 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC — $112,994 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $107,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING ARTS PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetHELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION INC — $74,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetABILITY360 INC — $36,979 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLEBEIANHELPERS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $11,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC — $7,850 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC — $7,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEARSON LAKES ART CENTER — $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM LATE NIGHT JAZZ INC — $3,500 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $3,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DORSET PLAYERS INC — $2,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTEAM OWEN FUND INC — $2,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetIOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION — $1,850 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALASKA RAPTOR REHABILITATION CENTER — $1,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE PHOENIX — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDORSET HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,350 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCHERISH CENTER — $1,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthshire Civic Center Inc — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HOUSING- MERCY OAKS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMUEL W TOWNSEND MEMORIAL TRUST FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Theatre Company — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTSDALE LEAGUE FOR THE ARTS — $500 over 1y, 21% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Valley — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Trustees of Hamilton College
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds Wellesley College
  • Who funds HISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
  • Who funds HEALING ARTS PROJECT INC
  • Who funds HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ABILITY360 INC
  • Who funds PLEBEIANHELPERS INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
  • Who funds EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC
  • Who funds ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL
  • Who funds PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER
  • Who funds TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC
  • Who funds HARLEM LATE NIGHT JAZZ INC

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.

Maser Family FoundationIA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maser Family Foundation · Perry & Teresa Pearson Foundation Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Quarry Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology35% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Neighbors in Need Inc3% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Quarry Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Quarry Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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