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Kevin & Amy Quinlivan Family 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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of KEVIN & AMY QUINLIVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100
Median grant
3
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUFFALO HARBOR MUSEUM$500
FRIENDS OF THE NIGHT PEOPLE$380
CITY HONORS SCHOOL- HOCKEY$150
Individual grant recipient$117
CLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK$100
BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH$75
WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION$60
TELFAIR MUSEUMS$25
BOSTON COLLEGE$25
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WATER WITH BLESSINGS: $125 → 15%WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100 → 13%MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $476 → 13%MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $425 → 13%MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $370 → 13%MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $285 → 13%MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $250 → 13%MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $220 → 13%MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $213 → 13%MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $113 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9k · 10 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$9k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

20%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $682 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
Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthEducationOther

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

  • MM
    MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue -14%
  • RT
    RESPONSE TO LOVE CENTER
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1k
  • BH
    BUFFALO HARBOR MUSEUM
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1k

Funded once

  • IA
    IRISH AMERICAN ARTS & CULTURE
    one grant, 2023 · $250
  • WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE
    one grant, 2024 · $250 · revenue 0%
  • MC
    MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION-CLEAN AIR COALITION
    one grant, 2023 · $241

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

04Your field

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.

1
Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.

Environment
2
Breast Cancer Network of Western New Yorkinc

Our mission is to support the well being of all western new yorkers impacted by breast cancer.

Health
3
Western Ny Coalition of Farmworker Serving Agencies Inc

To promote justice, dignity, and equity for migrants and farmworkers through advocacy, education, outreach, and direct services. We empower our communities to achieve self-sufficiency by fostering collaboration among partners.

Human Services
4
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
5
Invest Buffalo Niagara Foundation Inc

Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.

Community Improvement
6
Ralph Wilson Park Conservancy Inc

The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…

Recreation & Sports
7
New York Section American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety and welfare through improvements in the quality and quantity of water delivered to the public and the development and furtherance of understanding of the issues related thereto.

Public Benefit
8
Community Blood Bank of Erie County

To provide a safe, adequate supply of voluntarily donated blood for patients seeking medical services in northwestern pennsylvania and western new york hospitals.

Health
9
Zoological Society of Buffalo Inc

Building community; creating connections; saving wildlife through a collaboration for change: the buffalo zoo will be a center of conservation excellence, providing leadership to secure a future where wildlife thrives. we embody our…

Animals
10
Wmc-New York Inc

Wmc new york, inc. shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(b) and 501(c)(3) of the code, and for the purpose of engaging in various activities…

Health
11
Watershed Alliance of York (Way) Inc

The mission of the watershed alliance of york (way) is to improve york county's water, making it cleaner and healthier for all.

12
The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo

The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of Boston College. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
5/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RESPONSE TO LOVE CENTER — $1,400 · OtherRESPONSE TO LOVE CENTERBUFFALO HARBOR MUSEUM — $1,300 · OtherBUFFALO HARBOR MUSEUMUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO & JOHN R OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $1,100 · OtherUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO & JOHN R OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITALLOWER LAKES MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,050 · OtherLOWER LAKES MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETYST LOUIS CHURCH OF PITTSFORD N Y — $525 · OtherST LOUIS CHURCH OF PITTSFORD N YFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC — $380 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHEDRAL — $325 · OtherCITY HONORS SCHOOL- HOCKEY — $300 · Other+14 more — $1,473 · Other+14 moreMARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND — $2,352 · Human ServicesMARIA M LOVE CONVALESCEN…Water By Women — $125 · Human ServicesWNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $100 · Human ServicesFILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER INC FAAR — $253 · Arts & CultureWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION — $60 · Arts & CultureTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC — $25 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC — $150 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $140 · EnvironmentWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE — $250 · Public Safety & DisasterROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $200 · PhilanthropyTHE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INC — $50 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION — $150 · Health
Other$7,853Human Services$2,577Arts & Culture$338Environment$290Public Safety & Disaster$250Philanthropy$250Health$150

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND — $2,352 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER INC FAAR — $253 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWater By Women — $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRRALLIANCE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION — $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The John R Oishei FoundationNY15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John R Oishei Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Marks Family Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Baird Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good

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 Kevin & Amy Quinlivan Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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