Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc
Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc is a private foundation based in Secaucus, New Jersey. It supports health and wellness initiatives, including efforts to prevent, detect, monitor, and treat disease and address health disparities in underserved populations.
Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc at a glance
In short: Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc gave $6.7M across 14 grants in 2025 (avg $480K), top state Pennsylvania. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990-PF.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $6,715,868
- -22.2% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 14
- -30.0% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $479,705
- +11.2% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $322,139
- Total assets
- $53,269,207
- -11.7% vs 2024
- Primary geography
- Pennsylvania (34% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990-PF, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990-PF, 2025; updated October 2026.
How to apply to Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc
- Accepts unsolicited proposals
- Yes
- How to Apply
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The Foundation does not typically accept unsolicited requests and regularly invites applications through targeted requests for proposals. For the current Priority Community opportunity, applicants begin with an eligibility screener, followed by a short proposal if eligible; selected applicants are invited to submit a full proposal. Supporting materials may include a project budget, audited financial statements, and letters of support. Priority Community applicants are encouraged to apply as multi-sector coalitions and must align their work with the area’s most recent Community Health Needs Assessment. The Foundation’s stated award restrictions are to promote healthcare and wellness, disease prevention and care, public and professional education on healthcare issues, and a more level playing field for health disparities in underserved populations.
- Review Cycle
- The 2025 filing lists deadlines as available upon request. No specific deadline for the current Suffolk County opportunity is stated here.
- Deadline
- The 2025 filing lists deadlines as available upon request.
- Contact
Application contact: Tax Department
Mailing address: 500 Plaza Drive, Secaucus, NJ 07094
Phone: (800) 222-0446
Website: https://questdiagnostics.com
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Who Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 10 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Choose Healthy Life ($2.3M). Together the top 10 received $6.5M.
Organizations only. It also paid 1 grant to individuals ($135,829), which are not listed by name.
Grant Size Distribution
79 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was in the $100–250K range: 20 grants of 79 (25%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
The Foundation’s website identifies Suffolk County, Massachusetts, as its next priority community for intentional funding, with a focus on maternal and cardiometabolic care through local community-clinical linkages. It also describes ongoing work in Chicago’s West Side, Houston, Baltimore, and Paterson, where it says grants since 2022 have supported collective-impact councils and coalitions, community health workers and doulas, and preventive health education.
The 2025 filing reports grant dollars across recipient states as follows: Pennsylvania 34%, New Jersey 21%, Illinois 18%, Maryland 13%, and Texas 7%.
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 14 itemized grants.
States
Cities
How Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc gives
- 79% of 2025 grantees were also funded in 2024. Method
- Giving fell 24% from 2022 to 2025. Method
- In 2025 it paid out 999% of its IRS minimum distribution (the 5% rule). Method
Estimate from itemized grant lists in IRS Form 990-PF filings (2025). Recipient names are matched across years, so a renamed or misspelled grantee can look new; grants to individuals are left out. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2020 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $1.5M (2020) to $13.2M (2023). In 2025 it made 14 grants totaling $6.7M.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Choose Healthy Life East Stroudsburg, PA | The purposes of this grant agreement are as follows: (I) to enable grantee to provide black church public health navigators and health navigator supervisors and maintain hubs in newark, detroit, atlanta, and washington in accordance with phases v, vi, and vii of the choose healthy life black church plan and (II) to secure both short-term and long-term funding to sustain grantee and strengthen and grow the choose healthy life black church plan. | $2,316,382 |
| Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL | Grantee will use the grant to develop through west site united ("wsu"), a project currently fiscally sponsored by grantee, a collaborative network of community-based organizations ("cbos") in west side chicago to develop and deliver programs to these cbos to help them build capacity, and assist these cbos with their programing to make it more effective at addressing social determinants of health and health needs. | $1,200,637 |
| St Josephs Hospital & Med Ctr Fndtn Inc Paterson, NJ | To expand the sjh network of community health workers, improve diabetes care, improve maternal/infant health care. | $651,213 |
| The Y in Central Maryland Baltimore, MD | To formalize "the y of druid hill health equity coalition and develop and implement key community impact programming, focusing on four key areas: care coordination, mental/behavioral health, chronic disease prevention and management, and violence prevention. | $489,198 |
| American Heart Association Dallas, TX | Expansion of the hbcu scholars program; establishment of a scholars program at institutions of higher learning serving hispanic students; covid-19 relief through federally qualified health centers (each an "fqhc"); and hypertension relief and management through fqhcs. | $450,000 |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Edison, NJ | The grant will enable grantee to fund the expansion in paterson, New Jersey of the som human dimensions program (the "hd program"), which is a three-year longitudinal course designed to provide community-engaged medical education and workforce and improve healthcare in underserved and marginalized populations, including by addressing social determinants of health ("sdoh"). | $434,273 |
| Baltimore Connect Inc Baltimore, MD | To enable grantee to foster a future in which health care entities, social service organizations and people in the community work together seamlessly to achieve optimum health and well-being for all in baltimore city and Baltimore county, Maryland (collectively "baltimore"), focusing on mental health/behavioral health, care coordination, and youth engagement, for underserved/underinsured black and hispanic/latinx persons in poverty in baltimore (the "target population"). | $395,490 |
| Health Coalition of Passaic Paterson, NJ | Reduce maternal mortality and improve maternal and infant health outcomes by supporting health improvement, chronic disease management and connection to appropriate healthcare before pregnancy. | $248,788 |
| March of Dimes Arlington, VA | Over two years to support the implementation of local maternal child health focused initiatives through community-based collective impact councils benefiting communities in the houston, miami, and chicago local areas. The goals of this grant: increase the presence of community health workers, recruit and train a diverse doula workforce, and build health education awareness in communities with high preterm birth and maternal mortality rates. | $183,470 |
| 1 grant to individuals Recipients not named | — | $135,829 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Qualifying Distributions | Net Investment Income | Distributable Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $53,269,207 | — | $824,856 | $6,715,868 | 14 | $364,856 | — | $36,509 |
| 2024 | $60,321,263 | — | $16,777,291 | $8,628,843 | 20 | $2,719,026 | — | $43,248 |
| 2023 | $69,366,783 | $305,000 | $11,837,483 | $13,195,995 | 19 | $5,548,489 | — | $35,586 |
| 2022 | $82,745,541 | $91,470,131 | $14,146,299 | $8,852,107 | 13 | $9,341,082 | — | $45,355 |
| 2021 | $616,494 | $6,287,634 | $8,021,193 | $6,954,135 | 13 | $7,459,638 | $201 | $73,586 |
| 2020 | $1,787,633 | $3,101,065 | $4,327,886 | $1,453,017 | 2 | — | $980 | $32,527 |
Under IRS private-foundation payout rules, Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc reported a distributable amount of $37K for 2025 — the minimum it must pay out in qualifying distributions.
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated October 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
The Foundation’s stated purpose is “Working together to create a healthier world, one life at a time.” Its funding supports community health, disease prevention and care, and efforts to reduce health disparities. The Foundation’s website identifies three core areas: strengthening the community health workforce, addressing social drivers of health, and promoting disease prevention and early detection through diagnostic testing.
Recent grants have supported community health workers and doulas, maternal and infant health, chronic disease prevention and management, care coordination, mental and behavioral health, and community-based health education. The Foundation’s website says its place-based grants are intended to support coalitions and community-driven programs aligned with the relevant area’s most recent Community Health Needs Assessment.
Its grantees include healthcare institutions and community organizations. For example, Rush University Medical Center describes its mission as improving health through patient care, education, research, and community partnerships. Choose Healthy Life describes its work as equipping Black churches with resources, training, and support to address health disparities through health services and community wellness programs.
Grantmaking
In filing year 2025, the Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $6,715,868. The grants ranged from $20,000 to $2,316,382, with a median grant of $322,139.
The largest 2025 award was $2,316,382 to Choose Healthy Life for Black church public health navigators, supervisors, and hubs, as well as efforts to sustain and expand its program. Rush University Medical Center received $1,200,637 for a West Side Chicago network of community-based organizations working on organizational capacity and social determinants of health. Other notable grants included $651,213 to St. Josephs Hospital & Medical Center Foundation for community health workers and diabetes and maternal-infant health care; $489,198 to The Y in Central Maryland for a health equity coalition; and $450,000 to the American Heart Association for programs including HBCU and Hispanic-serving-institution scholars programs and hypertension initiatives.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
The 2025 filing lists Michael J. Deppe as vice president and trustee; Sean Mersten as secretary; Cecilia McKenney and Michael Prevoznik as vice chairs; Alain Bernard as a trustee as of September 5, 2025; and William J. O’Shaughnessy Jr. as assistant secretary until December 31, 2025.
Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc's 2025 filing lists 6 officers; none of the 6 officers listed in 2025 report compensation.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Michael J. Deppe
Vice President & Trustee
Vice President & Finance → Vice President & Trustee, 2021
On filings since 2020
1.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Alain Bernard
Trustee
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Cecilia McKenney
Vice Chair
President & Trustee → Vice Chair, 2025
On filings since 2020
1.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Michael E. Prevoznik
Vice Chair
Trustee → Vice Chair, 2025
On filings since 2020
5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
William J. O'Shaughnessy Jr.
Assistant Scretary
Secretary & Assistant Secretary → Assistant Secretary & Trustee, 2024
Assistant Secretary & Trustee → Assistant Scretary, 2025
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Sean Mersten
Secretary
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (5)
- Former: Ebony D. David (2020–2024) — Trustee
- Former: Ruth M. Clements (2021–2022) — President
- Former: Jing-Kai Syz (2020) — Assistant Secretary
- Former: Lindsey Greenberger (2020) — Senior Manager Corporate Social Responsibility
- Former: Sandip Patel (2020) — Vice President & Treasurer
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2020–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Frequently asked questions about Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc
How much does Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc give each year?
Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc gave $6.7M across 14 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990-PF. In 2024 it gave $8.6M across 20 grants.
What is Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc's typical grant size?
Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc's median grant in 2025 was $322,139, and its average grant was $479,705, across 14 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990-PF.
Where does Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc give grants?
Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc's top state is Pennsylvania, with 34% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990-PF. The next largest states were New Jersey (21%) and Illinois (18%). The most frequent recipient cities were Paterson, NJ (2 grants) and Baltimore, MD (2 grants).
Does Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc give general operating support?
Not in 2025: none of the 14 grants with a stated purpose on Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc's 2025 IRS Form 990-PF were described as general or operating support.
Who are Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc's largest 2025 grantees include Choose Healthy Life ($2,316,382), Rush University Medical Center ($1,200,637) and St Josephs Hospital & Med Ctr Fndtn Inc ($651,213), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990-PF. It also paid 1 grant to individuals ($135,829), which are not listed by name. Together they received 62% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc?
Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc reported $53.3M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990-PF. It paid out $365K in qualifying distributions that year, against a required minimum of $37K (roughly 5% of its investment assets).
What does Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc fund?
The Foundation’s stated purpose is “Working together to create a healthier world, one life at a time.” Its funding supports community health, disease prevention and care, and efforts to reduce health disparities. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc?
The Foundation does not typically accept unsolicited requests and regularly invites applications through targeted requests for proposals. Eligibility and process details are in the grantmaking section of this profile. See how to apply ↑
What is Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc's EIN?
Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 22-3093807. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2020–2025.
Does Quest Diagnostics Foundation Inc accept unsolicited proposals?
Yes, according to Grantable's research on the foundation's published guidelines. See how to apply ↑
Data last updated October 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990-PF filings. Research dossier generated October 2026.
Data update history
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When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Added Form 990-PF for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS June 29, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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