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Rural Libraries
Multi-year operating support for branch libraries in communities of fewer than 8,000 people. Active in 14 counties across the United States.
Multi-year operating support for branch libraries in communities of fewer than 8,000 people. Active in 14 counties across the United States.
Direct partnerships with elementary schools and afterschool programs, focused on access to physical books at home. Begun in 2017.
Sustaining grants for small literary presses, with emphasis on translation, regional voices, and durable backlists. Working with six houses as of 2025.
Quillrook is a private foundation. We do not solicit donations and we do not accept unsolicited applications. Our work is conducted with partners we know personally, on cycles measured in years rather than fiscal quarters.
We believe sustained, unflashy support outlasts the news of it. The foundation has chosen, since its founding in 2014, to publish neither financial figures nor lists of trustees. Press inquiries are answered directly.
“It is increasingly rare to encounter a foundation that funds quietly and sticks around. Quillrook is one of those.”
“They have, over the better part of a decade, become a steady and unobtrusive presence in the small-press world.”
“What is most striking is the absence of branding.”