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Quan Yin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Community Improvement$220kHousing & Shelter$31kEnvironment$23kFood & Nutrition$18kAnimals$16kReligion$15kHealth$15kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$789k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MARION FOUNDATION$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAFE FUTURES: $5k → 9%PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 9%PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $500 → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$107k · 10 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$107k
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+21%

Still filing today

90%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • SR
    STONE RIDGE ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $31k · revenue +11%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +26%
  • CF
    CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • OO
    OIC OF NEW LONDON
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • OC
    OCEAN COMMUNITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -1%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
4
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
5
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
11
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
12
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Himalaya Currents 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

17 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. 17 of the 29 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OIC OF NEW LONDON — $200,000 · OtherOIC OF NEW LONDONOCEAN COMMUNITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $20,000 · OtherOCEAN COMMUNITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCECONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $18,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC+11 more — $63,000 · Other+11 moreSTONE RIDGE ASSOCIATION INC — $30,500 · Housing & ShelterNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $11,000 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $2,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $1,000 · AnimalsPROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC — $500 · AnimalsPAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesSafe Futures Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC — $7,000 · PhilanthropyMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $5,000 · Civil RightsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 · HealthHIMALAYA CURRENTS INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$301,000Housing & Shelter$30,500Environment$23,000Animals$14,500Human Services$10,500Philanthropy$8,000Civil Rights$5,000Health$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTONE RIDGE ASSOCIATION INC — $30,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN COMMUNITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSafe Futures Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYA CURRENTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Quan Yin 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Safe Futures Inc15% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc5% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–25%
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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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