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Worldquant Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5.6M
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 FY20172024.

Education$35MPhilanthropy$6.8MReligion$5.3MHealth$3.1MArts & Culture$1.0MInternational$445kSocial Science$300kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $199k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.9M
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLDQUANT UNIVERSITY$5,560,101
MILKEN INSTITUTE$300,000
CARNEGIE HALL CORP$198,700
CASA VERDE HOME OF HOPE$30,000
ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION$25,000
STUDENT ADVOCACY$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%Orphaned Starfish Foundation: $25k → 17%ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$42M · 9 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$42M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+316%

Still filing today

78%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • WU
    WORLDQUANT UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $35M · revenue +98% · 88% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $999k · revenue +51%
  • AA
    ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $300k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M
  • CL
    CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CONNECTICUT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $370k
  • CL
    CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $320k

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
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
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
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
4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Worldquant University. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORLDQUANT UNIVERSITY — $34,813,851 · EducationWORLDQUANT UNIVERSITY+2 more — $45,000 · EducationM Y KEREN HASHLUCHIM INC — $4,600,000 · OtherM Y KEREN HASHLUCHI…WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE — $2,000,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDIC…CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CONNECTICUT INC — $370,000 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH INC — $320,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $300,000 · OtherPCF HAMPTON'S GALA PLEDGE — $300,000 · Other+2 more — $30,000 · OtherPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,110,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $998,700 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $300,000 · InternationalCASA VERDE HOME OF HOPE INC — $50,000 · InternationalOrphaned Starfish Foundation Inc — $125,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH — $30,000 · Youth Development
Education$34,858,851Other$7,920,000Philanthropy$1,110,000Arts & Culture$1,008,700International$350,000Human Services$125,000Youth Development$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLDQUANT UNIVERSITY — $34,813,851 over 8y, 88% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,110,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $998,700 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrphaned Starfish Foundation Inc — $125,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCASA VERDE HOME OF HOPE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 WORLDQUANT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
  • Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA
  • Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc
  • Who funds CASA VERDE HOME OF HOPE INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH
  • Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY INC
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY15.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Worldquant 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Worldquant Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Worldquant 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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