The Pegasus Fund provides a summer camp experience at Four Winds to young adults selected by the best local and national education/ leadership programs in the country. 

Last year, Jonathan Tucker and alumni from the Thacher School started The Pegasus Fund. The Thacher school is one of the top ten boarding schools in the country, and equips it's students (30% on financial aid) with the same four tools it has since its founding in 1889: honesty, fairness, kindness, and truth.


The school also made clear to us, the duty that comes with higher education, forcing us to ask ourselves how we can help others up that difficult ladder.

The Pegasus Fund addresses a fundamental problem we found with private secondary schools and in turn with social mobility and minority leadership in this country. Scholarship students who arrive at the campuses of our finest high schools are unprepared for their new and foreign social environment, often struggling to make the adjustment. Many times, the students feel alienated from both their peers at school and their friends/family when they return home: their academics suffer; their experiences don't fully materialize until they feelcomfortable in their own skin, which can take months or years or not at all. Robert Anson's "Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry" inspired this effort and continues to drive us today.

Our goal is to bridge that social gap. We select two of the finest sixth graders from the KIPP schools in lynn, ma and san francsico, ca -- two kids who are already succeeding against terrific adversity, who already have the best grades, who already are leading their peers, who will be the candidates for high school and college scholarships in the years to come -- and we commit to sending them to the Four Winds camp in the puget sound for three consecutive summers. In this non-academic and truly holistic camp on orcas island, our pegasus campers have THRIVED, taking risks, fostering new friendships, and making a facile adjustment into a completely new group of people in an utterly different place. they travel alone, on an airplane, and stay away from their families/friends/home for four weeks, warming all the parties involved, if you will, to the idea of a boarding school experience.

We provide everything for the Four Winds camp experience. This year Lacoste and Puma pitched-in with gear. We also are working to get our two Pegasus scholars computers for christmas, as they desperately need them if they are going to compete in their high schools. We would to get them into ssat tutoring this spring, a full year before they will take the entrance exam so that they will be accepted into their prospective schools not just because they are racially, or economically, or geographically diverse, but because they are academically qualified. We mentor them, check their grades, and help with random requests or needs. We will be guiding them through the secondary school application process. We think it takes three years to get these students "up to speed" if they are going to succeed in high school.