· Private foundation
Worldquant 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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $199k
- $250k+2 grants · $5.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLDQUANT UNIVERSITY | $5,560,101 |
| MILKEN INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL CORP | $198,700 |
| CASA VERDE HOME OF HOPE | $30,000 |
| STUDENT ADVOCACY | $25,000 |
| ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WUWORLDQUANT UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $35M · revenue +98% · 88% of their budget
- TCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $999k · revenue +51%
- AAACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA2× · 2022–2023 · $300k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- WCWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $2.0M
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2021 · $370k
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH INCone grant, 2020 · $320k
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 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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
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…
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)
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.
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…
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…
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Worldquant Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Worldquant Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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