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Quinn 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.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS$10,000
NOURISHING HOPE LAKEVIEW FOOD PANT$10,000
GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL$7,500
LINCOLN PARK ZOO$5,000
GOODMAN THEATRE$5,000
SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLANDS FUTURE$5,000
IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO$4,000
ART INSTITUTE CHICAGO$3,000
FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
MARY MEYER SCHOOL$2,500
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$2,500
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIAT$2,500
BROWN UNIVERSITY$2,500
DEBORAHS PLACE$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $3k → 16%HEWITT SCHOOL: $2k → 17%CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS: $10k → 15%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%BREBUFF JESUIT PREPERATORY SCHOOL: $3k → 16%LINCOLN PARK ZOO: $5k → 14%JUILLILARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $3k → 17%KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL: $1k → 16%GIARDANO DANCE COMPANY: $1k → 14%PUBLIC INTEREST LAW INITIATIVE: $2k → 14%DEBORAHS PLACE: $3k → 14%ART INSTITUTE CHICAGO: $3k → 14%TIMELINE THEATER COMPANY: $2k → 14%NOURISHING HOPE LAKEVIEW FOOD PANT: $10k → 14%FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%FIRST TEE: $2k → 14%IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $4k → 14%MARY MEYER SCHOOL: $3k → 14%SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLANDS FUTURE: $5k → 14%CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIAT: $3k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE: $5k → 14%JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDTION: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
3
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
4
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
5
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
6
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
7
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
8
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
9
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
10
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
11
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
12
Lincoln Park Conservancy

The mission of the lincoln park conservancy is to preserve and enhance the inspiring beauty of chicago's largest and most visited park for current and future generations. we believe that beauty matters. that it has the transformative power…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
5/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOURISHING HOPE LAKEVIEW FOOD PANT: $10,000 · OtherNOURISHING HOPE LAKEVIEW FOOD PANTMary Meyer School: $2,500 · OtherMary Meyer SchoolJUILLILARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $2,500 · OtherJUILLILARD SCHOOL OF MUSICIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherFOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBREBUFF JESUIT PREPERATORY SCHOOL: $2,500 · OtherBREBUFF JESUIT PREPERATORY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIAT: $2,500 · OtherCHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATFIRST TEE: $1,500 · OtherTHE HEWITT SCHOOL: $1,500 · OtherDEBORAH'S PLACE: $2,500 · OtherDEBORAH'S PLACEBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITYPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,500 · OtherPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONPublic Interest Law Initiative: $1,500 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureGRANT PARK ORCHESTR…CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GRO…TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $1,505 · Arts & CultureTIMELINE THEATRE CO…CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS: $10,000 · EnvironmentCHIKAMING OPEN …KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentKEEP INDIANAPOL…SKILLS FOR CHICAGO: $5,000 · EmploymentLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $3,000 · Education
Other$40,500Arts & Culture$14,005Environment$11,000Employment$5,000Animals$5,000Philanthropy$4,000Education$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary Meyer School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $1,505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Interest Law Initiative: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEWITT SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 Judelson Family F…The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Judelson Family FoundationNJ20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Judelson Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Quinn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quinn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% 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 · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 24 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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