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The Quercus Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $10,000 |
| UNRWA USA National Committee | $10,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $10,000 |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solan | $10,000 |
| Catholic Charities of Diocese Oakla | $10,000 |
| William J Brennan Jr Center For Jus | $5,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA | $5,000 |
| Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project | $5,000 |
| International Rescue Committe | $2,500 |
| Bay Area Crisis Nursery | $2,500 |
| Intercept Media Inc | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +55%
- BABAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +10%
- RLRESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +54%
Funded once
United States Association for UNHCRone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -62%- NPNonviolent Peaceforcegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +47%
- TITHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · 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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Refugees international advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crisis.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
Irap is a global legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge. everyone should have a safe…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 26 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 FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI California ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Nonviolent Peaceforce ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds THE INTERCEPT MEDIA 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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Quercus 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.
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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