· Private foundation
Earl and Eugenia Quirk Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLACIAL COMMUNITY YMCA | $115,000 |
| WATERTOWN HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF JEFFERSON & WAUKESHA COUNTIES | $20,000 |
| ROCK RIVER COALITION | $14,285 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC | $9,091 |
| WATERTOWN FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC | $7,500 |
| WATERTOWN FAMILY AID ASSOCIATION INC | $6,000 |
| HERITAGE MILITARY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC | $5,935 |
| WATERTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| CITY OF WATERTOWN - PUBLIC WORKS | $4,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +148% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GCGLACIAL COMMUNITY YMCA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $362k · revenue +205%
- WHWATERTOWN HUMANE SOCIETY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue +106%
- RRROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC4× · 2021–2024 · $59k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- WAWATERTOWN AREA CARES CLINIC INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce is to connect members with one another and provide resources that foster growth and sustainability.
To Promote Intellectual Improvement and Social Culture; and to Establish and Maintain a Library for Residents and Taxpayers of the Town of Watertown, Connecticut.
To provide the residents of the Town of Watertown, Massachusetts access to cable channels that promote talents, culture, ideas and community concerns.
Chamber of commerce
The Museum supports and promotes the unique history and culture of the Town of Waterford and surrounding area of NYS. Collections and Exhibits are on display fro public viewing, in addition,
The primary goal of the society is to preserve watertown history and to strengthen the community's connection to teh past, to each other & to the future.
The foundation commenced operations on december 29, 2003. the foundation has been organized to support educational and other non-profit organizations in the town of watertown.
Providing a pathway out of homelessness
It is a primary goal of the library that access to such materials and programs will promote personal, family and community enrichment for the residents of our chartered service area
Maintain a senior center with activities and programs for senior citizens
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Watertown Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GLACIAL COMMUNITY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Jefferson County Literacy Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Watertown Family Connections Inc ↗
- Who funds Rock River Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds Watertown Historical Society ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN AREA CARES CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Watertown Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN MAIN STREET PROGRAM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Joseph and Sharon Darcey Foundation · The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc · Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Earl and Eugenia Quirk Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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