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Xq Institute

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$6.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$134MPhilanthropy$13MCommunity Improvement$1.9MArts & Culture$1.4MYouth Development$669kHealth$70kHuman Services$15kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $930
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $320k
  • $250k+8 grants · $14M
$323,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING$6,933,052
DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$2,403,959
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC$1,830,569
IOVINE AND YOUNG FOUNDATION$1,000,000
EDUCATION FOR CHANGE$643,875
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND (UNCF)$350,000
BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION$323,500
CROSSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC$250,000
THE 74 MEDIA INC$150,000
IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$70,200
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY$50,095
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDUCATION SYSTEMS CENTER$50,000
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY$38,000
SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL INC$930
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $464k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SNCC LEGACY PROJECT: $150k → 8%THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE: $10k → 17%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $3k → 15%SOCIALWORKS: $300k → 14%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

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IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
NM
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127M · 36 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
68

Total granted

$127M
$9.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+22%

Still filing today

75%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $795k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CH
    CROSSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +444% · 40% of their budget
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOR CHANGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +42%
  • NH
    New Harmony High Institute
    6× · 2017–2023 · $7.5M · revenue ×18 · 66% of their budget

Funded once

  • DP
    DIGITAL PROMISE
    one grant, 2017 · $2.0M
  • EF
    EDUCATION FORWARD DCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.8M · revenue +113%
  • DV
    Da Vinci Schoolsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.2M · revenue +112%
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
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
2
Citizen Schools Inc

In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…

Education
3
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
4
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
5
Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy
6
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
7
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
8
Great Public Schools Now

The organization invests in schools, organizations and initiatives that catalyze excellence in public education, convenes leaders and uplifts public understanding to advocate for great public schools.

Education
9
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
10
Partners in School Innovation

To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.

Philanthropy
11
Blue Engine Inc

Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.

Education
12
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Collaborative Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 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

88 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. 88 of the 115 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/88
Grantees still filing
52/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $12,184,222 · EducationDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $9,022,683 · EducationGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONCROSSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $7,959,850 · EducationCROSSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INCEDUCATION FOR CHANGE: $7,801,581 · EducationEDUCATION FOR CHANGENew Harmony High Institute: $7,517,170 · EducationNew Harmony High InstituteBROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $7,400,371 · EducationBROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOLS INCVISTA FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE LEARNING: $7,000,000 · EducationVISTA FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE LEARNINGDa Vinci Schools LA County: $6,037,822 · EducationDa Vinci Schools LA CountyIOVINE AND YOUNG FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 · EducationSUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3,451,505 · EducationPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $3,240,608 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3,048,665 · Education+22 more: $8,589,320 · Education+22 moreCARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING: $17,433,052 · OtherCARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCE…WASHINGTON LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $8,667,623 · OtherWASHINGTON LEADERSHIP ACADEMYTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $7,479,133 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCELIZABETHTON HIGH SCHOOL: $2,095,138 · OtherDESIGN THINKING ACADEMY INC: $2,090,424 · OtherDIGITAL PROMISE: $2,000,000 · OtherRISE CHARTER SCHOOL LLC: $1,600,000 · Other+38 more: $5,668,613 · Other+38 moreGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,169,257 · PhilanthropyGREATER HO…THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,833,250 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE …THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $1,170,228 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUN…+3 more: $270,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,482,278 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCE: $300,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $93,000 · Community ImprovementTHE 74 MEDIA INC: $600,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $62,500 · Arts & CultureSOCIALWORKS: $300,000 · Human ServicesSNCC LEGACY PROJECT: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE STEPHEN C ROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $14,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON GROUND FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAVING OUR DAUGHTERS INC: $20,000 · Youth Development+6 more: $18,000 · Youth Development
Education$87,253,797Other$47,033,983Philanthropy$13,442,735Community Improvement$1,875,278Arts & Culture$962,500Human Services$484,000Youth Development$338,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING: $17,433,052 over 3y, 35% of budgetDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $12,184,222 over 3y, 64% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $9,022,683 over 5y, 59% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,169,257 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCROSSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $7,959,850 over 7y, 40% of budgetEDUCATION FOR CHANGE: $7,801,581 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetNew Harmony High Institute: $7,517,170 over 6y, 66% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $7,479,133 over 4y, 11% of budgetBROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $7,400,371 over 4y, 13% of budgetVISTA FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE LEARNING: $7,000,000 over 4y, 75% of budgetDa Vinci Schools LA County: $6,037,822 over 3y, 64% of budgetIOVINE AND YOUNG FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 over 3y, 80% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,833,250 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3,451,505 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $3,240,608 over 6y, 18% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3,048,665 over 6y, 23% of budgetDESIGN THINKING ACADEMY INC: $2,090,424 over 2y, 17% of budgetEDUCATION FORWARD DC: $1,792,400 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,482,278 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetDa Vinci Schools: $1,215,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $1,170,228 over 5y, 14% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $1,041,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FUND: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $1,000,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPOWDERHOUSE STUDIOS LIMITED: $909,137 over 2y, 93% of budgetThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $700,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetINNOVATEEDU INC: $660,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE 74 MEDIA INC: $600,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCompass Academy: $438,790 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $400,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $350,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS: $300,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMON GROUND FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCE: $300,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetCENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSNCC LEGACY PROJECT: $150,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $150,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWATERFIRE PROVIDENCE: $126,776 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIdaho State University Foundation Inc: $70,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BORIS LAWRENCE HENSON FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

Walton Family Foundat…Gates FoundationCarnegie Corporation …New Schools FundWK Kellogg FoundationCharles and Lynn Schu…The William & Flora H…Charles and Helen Sch…Silicon Valley Commun…Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Great Public Schools …Michael & Susan Dell …
Walton Family Foundation IncAR29.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · New Schools Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Great Public Schools Now · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Center for Collaborative Education Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Youth Services of Tulsa Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Xq Institute?

Find your warmest path to Xq Institute 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 115 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home