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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 it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PLEBEIAN HELPERS INC$10,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ABILITY360$5,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK$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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+39%
+53%

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
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

  • 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
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,500 over 7y, 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 budgetNorthshire Civic Center Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $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 budgetHospice of the Valley: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 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.

  • 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Neighbors in Need Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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