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Quimby Colony Inc

Quimby colony has been organized to be a supporting organization to the maine college of art, a tax-exempt publicly supported school described in section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii) located in portland, maine.

$305k
Granted FY2017
8
Grants FY2017
8
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$212,294
States reached, FY2017
1

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Maine College of Art and Design$212,29411%
Quimby Family Foundation$30,00012%
Maine Academy of Modern Music$13,00014%
Quoddy Tides Foundation$10,00012%
Vienna Union Hall Association$10,0001n/a
Kennebec Valley Art Association$10,00019%
Frenchman Bay Research Boating$8,00015%
Friends of Lincoln Park Inc$6,0001n/a

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Davis Family FoundationME13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davis Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Quimby Colony Inc 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.

About Quimby Colony Inc

How much does Quimby Colony Inc give?
Quimby Colony Inc reported 8 grants totaling $304,794 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Quimby Colony Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Education (71%), Arts & Culture (14%), Philanthropy (10%).
Who are Quimby Colony Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Maine College of Art and Design ($212k), Quimby Family Foundation ($30k), Maine Academy of Modern Music ($13k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Quimby Colony Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Davis Family Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Quimby Colony Inc based?
Quimby Colony Inc is based in ME.

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 8 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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