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Quill.org

By building free, online tools that use AI to automatically evaluate student writing, Quill provides 4th through 12th grade students with immediate feedback and coaching.

New York City, NY   |  http://www.quill.org

Mission

Quill’s mission is to help more than 10 million low-income students each year become strong writers, readers, and critical thinkers. Teachers are busier than ever and have little to no time to provide individual writing feedback to their students. By building free online tools that use AI to automatically evaluate student writing, Quill provides 4th through 12th-grade students with immediate feedback and coaching. This enables students to revise their work immediately and quickly build their literacy skills.

Ruling year info

2014

Executive Director

Peter Gault

Main address

41 E 11th St Fl 11

New York City, NY 10003-4602 USA

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EIN

46-2736440

NTEE code info

Student Services and Organizations (B80)

IRS filing requirement

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Quill.org aims to serve all low-income K-12 students in the United States. Low-income students frequently do not receive sufficient feedback on writing, and have the most to gain through personalized writing instruction. As of 2012, there are 31 million low-income K-12 students in the United States, defined as students eligible for Free or Reduced Price Lunch. 88% of these students struggle with writing, which is one of the biggest hurdles low-income students face on their path to work, post-secondary training, and higher education. Never has this deficit been more pronounced or its downstream effects more devastating. In order to get a job, gain entry into a technical training program, or matriculate and succeed at college, students need to write emails, answer questions on digital applications, and write essays.

Our programs

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What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Quill Reading for Evidence

Quill.org's mission is to build critical thinking skills through reading and writing activities that focus on current events, 21st-Century issues, STEM curriculum, and ELA topics. Quill.org's newest tool, Quill Reading for Evidence, presents students with a newspaper article or reading passage for students to analyze through a series of writing prompts. Each prompt is connected to Quill's AI-powered feedback system, which coaches students on how to correct inaccurate information and strengthen vague ideas. Each activity (one learning module) provides one news article, three writing prompts, and up to 15 cycles of coaching and feedback. This AI-powered approach to learning mimics a tutor in the classroom sitting next to the student and coaching the student on how to best understand and express the ideas from the source text, enabling students to receive the real-time, immediate support they need to build comprehension of the ideas they are reading about.

Population(s) Served

Assesses student writing and measures growth.

Population(s) Served

Combines sentences using conjunctions like but, because, and so.

Population(s) Served

To practice grammar and mechanics.

Population(s) Served

To edit passages.

Population(s) Served

To lead direct instruction.

Population(s) Served

Where we work

  • Global

External assessments

Evaluated via the Impact Genome Project (2018)

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Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of users on daily, monthly and annual basis

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Number of active Quill students per year

Our Sustainable Development Goals

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Goals & Strategy

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Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

Since launching in September 2014, Quill.org has impacted over 12 million K-12 students from over 42,000 schools across all 50 states, with 66% of our students attending Title-1 eligible schools. These students have written and received feedback on over 3 billion sentences. Within the next five years, we aim to help 10 million low-income students per year improve their writing and thinking skills.

Quill helps students become strong readers and writers by using research-validated literacy strategies.

Quill’s first five tools focus on strengthening student writing skills: Quill Proofreader, Quill Grammar, Quill Diagnostic, Quill Lessons, and Quill Connect. Quill’s latest tool, Quill Reading for Evidence, focuses on building student reading comprehension through writing.

Using Quill Reading for Evidence, students read a non-fiction text and answer AI-powered writing prompts about the text while their AI tutor gives feedback on their responses in real-time. Far more powerful than multiple choice, Quill Reading for Evidence provides students the opportunity to engage in deeper thinking about a text and receive immediate feedback on their written answers to textual evidence questions.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Quill.org

Board of directors
as of 04/16/2026
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Benjamin Sussman DIRECTOR

Heejae Lim DIRECTOR

Matthew Rodriguez DIRECTOR

Paul Walker

Stephanie Cohen DIRECTOR

Tony Sebro DIRECTOR

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? no