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K & J Quinn Foundation

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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$127kReligion$37kArts & Culture$17kHuman Services$2kRecreation & Sports$1kHealth$1kPhilanthropy$750Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOL$20,000
FRIENDS OF CAPE ARUNDEL$15,000
ST JOHN THE BAPTIST$6,000
SETON HALL$5,000
BILLY ZIMMERMANN FOUNDATION$2,000
BETTY ZIMMERMANN FOUNDATION$1,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
PA
NJ
VA
AZ
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137k · 4 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$137k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+145%

Still filing today

25%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +39%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
    5× · 2021–2025 · $16k
  • SP
    ST PAUL THE APOSTLE CHURCH
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k

Funded once

  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • EC
    EXCHANGE CLUB OF POMPANO BEACH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -55%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $750 · revenue -10%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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2
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
5
Providence College

See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.

Education
6
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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7
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
8
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
9
Saint Leo University Inc

Saint leo is an inventive global catholic liberal arts university thatfosters a personal & inclusive community which educates, prepares, &develops students for success, and consists of diverse learners whoboldly confront the challenges of…

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Simmons University

Simmons university is a community of higher learning that unites passion with purpose.

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Maine Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christ Church School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYChrist Church School Inc: $20,000 · EducationChrist Church School IncST JOHN THE BAPTIST: $16,000 · OtherST JOHN THE BAPTISTFRIENDS OF CAPE ARUNDEL INC: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CAPE ARUNDEL INCST PAUL THE APOSTLE CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherST PAUL THE APOSTLE CHURCHARCHBISHOPS CHARITY DRIVE: $5,500 · OtherARCHBISHOPS CHARITY DRIVESETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITY+7 more: $7,750 · Other+7 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · HealthSPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $500 · Human Services
Education$120,000Other$64,250Health$1,000Recreation & Sports$500Human Services$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Church School Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB OF POMPANO BEACH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization K & J Quinn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from K & J Quinn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to K & J Quinn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to K & J Quinn Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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