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Quinn Emanuel 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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
92
Grants FY2025
92
Organizations funded FY2024
46%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$18,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$160,000
Organizations funded a year
61 to 92
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
17
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Quinn Emanuel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $561k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving92$2.3M37%
FY202492$1.9M46%
FY202388$1.9M56%
FY202261$1.7M52%
FY202161$1.4M44%
FY202083$1.7M64%
FY201973$1.8M55%
FY201875$1.3M57%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$3.9MEducation$3.2MHealth$2.3MHuman Services$1.2MCivil Rights$1.0MPhilanthropy$980kInternational$631kArts & Culture$513kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 276 grantees
All grantees of Quinn Emanuel Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Legal Aid Society$458,00090%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$410,00080%
Fordham University$250,00010%
Alzheimers Greater Los Angeles$245,95051%
826 National Inc$233,62583%
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc$220,75251%
Equal Justice Works$217,50060%
Pro Bono Partnership Inc$201,50082%
Direct Relief$200,00010%
Bet Tzedek$194,46861%
Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart)$180,50033%
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc$180,25040%
Blood Cancer United Inc$179,00060%
University of Michigan$178,500155%
American Heart Association Inc$173,25060%
The Honorable Tina Brozman Fdtn Inc$167,50063%
Matthews Wish Foundation Inc$165,2506n/a
Border Solidarity$163,350363%
Legal Services NYC$160,70060%
United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County$160,00010%
The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation)$150,00018%
American Immigration Council$150,00012%
Joan Marie Williams Foundation Inc$146,200538%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$140,00060%
American Brain Tumor Association$136,80032%
Her Justice Inc$135,00050%
National Center for Law and Economic Justice Inc$133,75034%
The Books for Kids Foundation$117,50063%
Associated Catholic Charities Inc$115,50080%
Coordinated Advice & Referral Program for Legal Services$111,50041%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$111,35010%
Keaton's Child Cancer Alliance$109,0001n/a
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc$107,50060%
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley$105,50050%
The Historical Society of the New York Courts$101,50085%
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund$101,00031%
Freefrom$96,12541%
The Dragonfly Home Inc$93,50025%
Federal Bar Council$92,50091%
The Children's Village Inc$92,25060%
Team Rubicon Inc$91,25040%
New York County Lawyers Association$88,70042%
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc$88,00060%
Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund$84,25011%
Western Justice Center Foundation$82,83241%
Hillel Foundation of Ithaca College$80,000214%
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law$78,78030%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$77,50020%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$75,00030%
Independent School Alliance for Minority Affairs$71,350110%
Advocates for Children of New York$71,25050%
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Inc$70,05047%
New York City Urban Debate League Inc$69,50041%
Children's Flight of Hope$69,00032%
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc$65,00020%
Roivant Social Ventures Inc$60,000211%
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights$60,00020%
United Way of Southeast Louisiana$59,50010%
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley$56,50040%
Glaad Inc$56,00020%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$51,55010%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$51,55010%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$51,55010%
American Friends of Leket Israel Inc$51,55010%
Legal Services Corporation$51,0001n/a
Volunteer Lawyers for Justice In$50,00012%
Access Justice Brooklyn Inc$50,00013%
Business Council for International Understanding Inc$50,0001n/a
Criminal Justice Reform Foundation$50,00010%
Greater New York Councils Boy Scouts of America$50,00040%
Bridges from School to Work Inc$48,50030%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$46,00010%
Creo College Preparatory Charter School$44,00021%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$42,00010%
Office of the Appellate Defender$41,50040%
Model Alliance Inc$40,375310%
The Tyler Clementi Foundation Inc$40,00044%
United States Ski Team Foundation$38,50020%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$35,50040%
Hackensack Meridian Health Inc$35,5001n/a
International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Inc$35,00021%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$35,00010%
Pro Bono Institute$35,00020%
Partnership for a Drug-Free America$33,50011%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$33,30030%
Urban Justice Center$33,25020%
Ready to Succeed$33,00023%
Lifeline Center for Child Development$32,36011%
Beach Futbol Club$32,00020%
Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc$32,00040%
Equal Justice Initiative$31,67820%
Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund Inc$30,00020%
Junior Achievement of Greater Washington$30,00011%
Catholic Charities Ny Second Century Fund$30,0001n/a
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc$30,00030%
Human Rights Watch Inc$30,00020%
Holy Trinity Neighborhood Center In$29,4502n/a
Law Rocks Inc$27,50032%
Legal Momentum$26,50011%
National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center$26,500222%
The Innocence Project Inc$26,00020%
Redf$26,00010%
The Rise Partnership Inc$25,500216%
Gideons Promise Inc$25,25040%
Street Law Inc$25,00011%
NJ LEEP Inc$25,00011%
Nazareth Housing Inc$25,00011%
Red Door Community Inc$25,00011%
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation$25,00010%
Raiders Foundation$25,0001n/a
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$25,00010%
New York Edge Inc$25,00010%
Futures and Options Inc$25,00030%
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association Inc$25,00030%
Father's Daymother's Day Council Inc$25,00012%
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc$25,00011%
Texas Tech Law School Foundation$25,00010%
The Neuromuscular Disease Foundation$24,75011%
Teach for America Inc$22,50020%
Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert Inc$22,50022%
American Jewish Committee$21,25020%
Maple Street School$20,50011%
Citizens Committee for New York City Inc$20,00030%
Pratham USA$20,00020%
The Cove School Inc$20,00010%
The Jewish Museum$20,00010%
Determined to Succeed$20,00021%
Hillel Hebrew Academy$20,0002n/a
Mhc Academic Foundation$20,0001n/a
The Social Giving Network$20,00020%
Lincoln Presidential Foundation$20,00021%
Make a Difference Leadership Foundation$20,00023%
Garden of Dreams Foundation$18,00010%
Jazz Foundation of America Inc$17,00010%
Disability Rights Advocates$17,00010%
Federal Bar Foundation$16,50013%
Cathedral High School$15,2501n/a
Kind Inc$15,00010%
The American Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Professional Training$15,00011%
National Building Museum$15,00010%
Federal Problem-Solving Court Foundation$15,000114%
National Women's Law Center$15,00010%
Glsen Inc$15,00010%
Indego Africa Project$15,0001n/a
Keep a Child Alive Inc$15,00021%
Volunteers of Legal Service Inc$15,00011%
Black Lives Matter Foundation$14,95215%
Trevor Project Inc$14,86610%
Ithaca College$14,25010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$13,00010%
Acting Company Inc$12,500112%
The Supreme Court Historical Society$12,50010%
American Jewish Congress Inc$12,50021%
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc$12,10010%
Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans$11,00010%
Blue School$11,00010%
The Bail Project Inc$10,75310%
High Rise Day Rehabilitation Center$10,50019%
National Lesbian and Gay Law Association$10,50012%
San Diego County Bar Foundation$10,50013%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts Inc$10,50020%
Anti-Defamation League$10,16230%
The Broad Institute Inc$10,15010%
Youth Renewal Fund$10,0001n/a
Vote Solar$10,00010%
American Irish Historical Society Inc$10,00012%
Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc$10,00010%
Equality Now Inc$10,00010%
Only Make Believe Inc$10,00011%
Environmental Law Institute$10,00010%
Active Minds Inc$10,00020%
Madison Square Park Conservancy Inc$10,00010%
Rutgers University Foundation$10,00010%
United States Soccer Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Inner City Law Center$10,00010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles$10,00010%
Child Mind Institute Inc$10,0001n/a
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc$10,00010%
AABA Law Foundation$10,00025%
Jewish Graduate Student Initiative$10,00010%
Legal Aid Chicago$10,00010%
Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation$10,00012%
Yaffed Inc$10,00012%
Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc$10,00020%
Guatemala Sana Children's Project Inc$10,00012%
College Summit Inc$10,00020%
National Legal Aid and Defender Association$10,00010%
New York University$10,00010%
American Council on Germany Inc$10,00010%
Selfhelp Community Services Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Balif Foundation$9,500227%
Madraigos Inc$8,60020%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$8,50010%
And Justice for All$8,20010%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$8,00010%
The Chicago Bar Foundation$8,00020%
Water Buffalo Club Inc Dba We Benefit Children$7,83711%
The Midnight Mission$7,83710%
Haverford School$7,50010%
Jewish Women International$7,50011%
Juntos Regalando Sonrisas Inc$7,5001n/a
Lesbian & Gay Law Association Foundation of Greater NY Inc$7,50012%
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption$7,50010%
Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc$7,00010%
Progeria Research Foundation Inc$7,00010%
Aidans Red Envelope Foundation$7,000115%
Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children$6,75010%
Black Women Lawyers Association Scholarship Fund$6,000110%
The Quad Preparatory School$6,00020%
Wharton Graduate Association$6,00010%
Fund for Animal Cruelty Treatment of Suffolk Inc$6,000175%
Colel Chabad$5,4001n/a
Northwestern University$5,00010%
Pluralistic School Inc$5,00010%
National Ability Center$5,00010%
Newark Public Radio Inc$5,00010%
Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc$5,00010%
The Rescue Train$5,00011%
Brain Tumor Foundation$5,00013%
Far Hills Country Day School$5,00010%
Appellate Project Inc$5,00011%
Education Success Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall$5,00010%
Lawyers Alliance for New York$5,00010%
United Friends of the Children$5,00010%
Logos Inc$5,00010%
Jericho Ministries Inc$5,00011%
The New York Bar Foundation$5,00010%
Charity Global Inc$5,00010%
Liberty Science Center$5,00010%
Academy Eleven Ghana Inc$5,0001n/a
Nassau County Police Department Foundation Inc$4,90110%
When We All Vote$4,90110%
Kabanc Foundation$4,6002n/a
The Daniel Anderl Judicial Protection Project$4,5001n/a
The Council of Urban Professionals Institute$4,50010%
Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault$4,10010%
OneJustice$4,00010%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$3,70810%
Reelabilities International Inc$3,50011%
Lawyers for Good Government Inc$3,50011%
Boys Hope Girls Hope of NY Inc$3,26310%
AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area$3,00010%
Teen Cancer America Inc$3,00010%
BISSELL Pet Foundation$3,00010%
American Kidney Fund Inc$3,00010%
The Humane Society of the Nature Coast Inc$3,00010%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc$2,84910%
Curepsp Inc$2,75010%
Year Up Inc$2,50010%
The National Judicial College$2,50010%
Kidside Inc$2,5001n/a
Central City Boxing & Barbell Inc$2,40111%
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc$2,40110%
Federal Defenders of New York Inc$2,40010%
Big Oak Ranch Inc$2,35010%
Friends of the Peace Parks Inc$2,20015%
Latinos Progresando$2,10010%
Los Angeles House of Ruth$2,00010%
Southern Center for Human Rights$2,00010%
Woodson Center$2,00010%
The American Antitrust Institute Inc$1,95010%
Wilkie D Ferguson Jr Bar Foundation Inc$1,5001n/a
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$1,50010%
The Hasty Pudding - Institute of 1770 Inc$1,50010%
The Bronx Defenders$1,50010%
International We Love U Foundation East Coast Region Inc$1,25010%
Tri-County Scholarship Fund$1,25010%
Neighborhood House INC$1,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
New Rochelle Young Men's Christian Association Inc$1,00010%
Lynching Sites Project of Memphis$1,0001n/a
National Trans Bar Association$75012%
Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund$10010%
Social Justice Learning Institute$4010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 108 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Quinn Emanuel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Legal Aid Society: $458,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $410,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFordham University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimers Greater Los Angeles: $245,950 over 5y, 1.1% of budget826 National Inc: $233,625 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc: $220,752 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetEqual Justice Works: $217,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPro Bono Partnership Inc: $201,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetDirect Relief: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBet Tzedek: $194,468 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSchools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart): $180,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMarine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc: $180,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $179,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $178,500 over 1y, 55% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $173,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Honorable Tina Brozman Fdtn Inc: $167,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetBorder Solidarity: $163,350 over 3y, 63% of budgetLegal Services NYC: $160,700 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of San Antonio and Bexar County: $160,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation): $150,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetAmerican Immigration Council: $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJoan Marie Williams Foundation Inc: $146,200 over 5y, 38% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $136,800 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHer Justice Inc: $135,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNational Center for Law and Economic Justice Inc: $133,750 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetThe Books for Kids Foundation: $117,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetAssociated Catholic Charities Inc: $115,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCoordinated Advice & Referral Program for Legal Services: $111,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $111,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc: $107,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLaw Foundation of Silicon Valley: $105,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Historical Society of the New York Courts: $101,500 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetAsian American Legal Defense and Education Fund: $101,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFreefrom: $96,125 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Dragonfly Home Inc: $93,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFederal Bar Council: $92,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetThe Children's Village Inc: $92,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $91,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew York County Lawyers Association: $88,700 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLegal Action Center of the City of New York Inc: $88,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetShawn Carter Scholarship Fund: $84,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWestern Justice Center Foundation: $82,832 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHillel Foundation of Ithaca College: $80,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $78,780 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $77,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent School Alliance for Minority Affairs: $71,350 over 1y, 9.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Sidley Austin FoundationIL78.7× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sidley Austin Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · Weil Gotshal & Manges Foundation Inc · Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · Perkins Coie Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson 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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How do I get to Quinn Emanuel Foundation?

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

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About Quinn Emanuel Foundation

How much does Quinn Emanuel Foundation give?
Quinn Emanuel Foundation reported 92 grants totaling $2,345,252 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 92 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Quinn Emanuel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (25%), Education (20%), Health (15%).
Who are Quinn Emanuel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Legal Aid Society ($458k), William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc ($410k), Fordham University ($250k).
Does Quinn Emanuel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Quinn Emanuel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Quinn Emanuel Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sidley Austin Foundation, United Way Miami Inc, The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation.
Where is Quinn Emanuel Foundation based?
Quinn Emanuel Foundation is based in CA.

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 393 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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