· Private foundation
The Quarterdeck Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MESEUM | $140,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| MARION ART CENTER INC | $17,000 |
| CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD | $12,500 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| MARION ART CENTER INC | $6,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| DONORSCHOOSE | $5,000 |
| THE MARION INSTITUTE INC | $5,000 |
| KU ENDOWMENT | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2023 · $467k · revenue +2%
Old Dartmouth Historical Society8× · 2017–2024 · $383k · revenue +283%- MAMarion Art Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +184%
Funded once
- EFEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -9%
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +31%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +28%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
How this is measured
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 89 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Marion Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Sippican Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MARION COA INC ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds CLAGETT SAILING ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 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.
Open a dossier: The Ludes Family Foundation · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · Bascom Charitable Foundation · Miller Foundation · The Croll Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Norweb Foundation Mag · Rubenstein Family Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Quarterdeck Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Quarterdeck Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Friends of Jack Foundation Inc: 36% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
- Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Marion Art Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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