The Quarterdeck Foundation
Marion, MA · EIN 81-4060929. Reported 39 grants totalling $400,250 to 33 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Quarterdeck Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $6,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $140,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Bedford Whaling Meseum | New Bedford, MA | $140,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Bedford Whaling Museum | New Bedford, MA | $100,000 | 4 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sweet Briar Collage | Sweet Briar, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marion Art Center Inc | Marion, MA | $26,000 | 4 | 1 | 2024 |
| St George's School | Middletown, RI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound Education Center | Boston, MA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Donorschoose | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ku Endowment | Lawrence, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Sisters' School | New Bedford, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Marion Institute Inc | Marion, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston | Boston, MA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clagett Sailing | Portsmouth, RI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Jack Foundation | New Bedford, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rescued Friends Animal Santuary | Fort Collins, CO | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Fessenden School | Newton, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Buzzards Bay Musicfest Inc | Marion, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cobalt Abortion Fund | Denver, CO | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elizabeth Tabor Libary | Marion, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fmcoa | Marion, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marion Natural History Museum | Marion, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Bedford Star Kids Scholarship | New Bedford, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Beford Symphony Orchestra | New Bedford, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rocky Mountain Raptor Program | Fort Collins, CO | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sippican Historical Society | Marion, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sippican Lands Trust | Marion, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Wild Animal Sanctuary | Keenesburg, CO | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic | Woods Hole, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Zeiterion | New Bedford, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brunswick School | Greenwich, CT | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| MIT | Cambridge, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lloyd Center for the Environment | South Dartmouth, MA | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coast Guard Foundation | Stonington, CT | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 76% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Quarterdeck Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 576, Marion, MA, 02738. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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