· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO & BEXAR COUNTY | $160,000 |
| KEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE | $109,000 |
| NEW YORK LAWYERS FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST | $100,752 |
| BORDER SOLIDARITY (SHELTERS FOR HOPE) | $88,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $87,500 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC (CLASI) | $79,500 |
| SMART | $60,000 |
| THE DRAGONFLY HOME | $56,500 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $53,500 |
| LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION | $51,000 |
| COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL | $50,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $830k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
125 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $781k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $458k · revenue +66%
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +206%- AGALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES5× · 2017–2024 · $246k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- FUFordham Universityone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +15%
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +8%- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2021 · $179k · revenue +96% · 55% of their budget
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.
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.
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To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.
The mission of new york law school is to provide its students with knowledge, skills and ethical values needed for a career in law.
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How this is measured
277 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. 277 of the 393 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds 826 National Inc ↗
- Who funds New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HONORABLE TINA BROZMAN FDTN INC ↗
- Who funds BORDER SOLIDARITY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES NYC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Joan Marie Williams Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds HER JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSS RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Quinn Emanuel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quinn Emanuel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
- Bridges from School to Work Inc: 33% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in: 9% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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