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Quinsey Family 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.

$184k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$504kEnvironment$467kHealth$208kPhilanthropy$116kFood & Nutrition$97kArts & Culture$54kRecreation & Sports$43kAnimals$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CONSERVATION CENTER$50,000
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY$36,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER$10,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
GROWING GARDENS$8,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA$5,700
TRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON$5,000
ADOPT ONE BLOCK$5,000
PORTLAND TOUCH RUGBY$5,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$5,000
ECO - ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS$3,000
DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN$2,000
OREGON FOOD BANK$1,500
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 (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NINTY-NINE GIRLFRIENDS: $2k → 12%NINETY-NINE GIRLFRIENDS: $2k → 12%NINETY-NINE GIRLFRIENDS: $2k → 12%NINETY-NINE GIRLFRIENDS: $1k → 12%NINTY-NINE GIRLFRIENDS: $1k → 12%NINTY-NINE GIRLFRIENDS: $1k → 12%NINTY-NINE GIRLFRIENDS: $1k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $1k → 12%NINTY NINE GIRL FRIENDS: $1k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $1k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $1k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $10k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $8k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $4k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $3k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $3k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $3k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $1k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $1k → 12%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 26 repeat orgs$440k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
22

Total granted

$1.1M
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+1%

Still filing today

81%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +91%
  • WR
    WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER
    7× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +47%
  • TL
    THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • PS
    PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -20%
  • TF
    TEAMIZZY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +36%

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
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
2
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
3
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
4
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
5
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
6
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
7
The Wetlands Conservancy Inc

Founded in 1981, the wetlands conservancy is dedicated to working in partnership with communities statewide to permanently protect, conserve and restore oregon's greatest wetlands.

Environment
8
Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

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9
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
10
Rainforest Trust

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

International
11
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcdowell Sonoran Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Teamizzy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr13%11%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%9%<5yr13%6%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr12%9%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
11%
2,771/25,390

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

39 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 56 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
25/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHSU FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherOHSU FOUNDATIONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $132,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CONSERVATION CENTER — $90,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CONSERVATION CENTEROREGON FOOD BANK — $60,500 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY — $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · Other+23 more — $132,800 · Other+23 moreWILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER — $130,000 · EnvironmentWILLAMETTE RIVERKEEP…Adopt One Block — $52,000 · EnvironmentAdopt One BlockTRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON — $37,500 · EnvironmentTRAILKEEPERS OF OREG…BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC — $27,000 · EnvironmentBIRD ALLIANCE OF ORE…Human Access Project — $13,500 · EnvironmentDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentFREE GEEK — $10,000 · Environment+3 more — $15,500 · EnvironmentOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationOREGON HEAL…Inclusive Entrepreneurs Foundation FKA TiE Oregon Foundation — $10,000 · EducationInclusive E…+2 more — $6,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIBRA…PORTLAND CENTER STAGE — $35,100 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND …Portland Actors Conservatory — $12,000 · Arts & CulturePortland …OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $6,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Cancer Association — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTEAMIZZY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $25,000 · InternationalGrowing Gardens — $32,000 · Human ServicesNINETY-NINE GIRLFRIENDS — $11,100 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND — $3,000 · Human Services
Other$831,300Environment$297,500Education$166,000Arts & Culture$134,100Philanthropy$100,000International$50,000Human Services$46,100

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 budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $132,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER — $130,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEAMIZZY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $60,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt One Block — $52,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetTRAILKEEPERS OF OREGON — $37,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetPORTLAND CENTER STAGE — $35,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGrowing Gardens — $32,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC — $27,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $15,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Access Project — $13,500 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetPortland Actors Conservatory — $12,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNINETY-NINE GIRLFRIENDS — $11,100 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Tryon Creek — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFREE GEEK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInclusive Entrepreneurs Foundation FKA TiE Oregon Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY — $7,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA — $5,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTune In To Nature org — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTSDALE ARTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge — $1,000 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 Collins FoundationThe Oregon Community …The Autzen FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Jackson FoundationThe Reser Family Foun…Rose E Tucker Charita…Juan Young TrustHillman Family Founda…Braemar Charitable Tr…The Starseed Foundati…
The Collins FoundationOR35.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · Braemar Charitable Trust · The Starseed 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 Quinsey Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Willamette Riverkeeper — 42% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Trailkeepers of Oregon — 19% of income from government
  • Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
  • Free Geek — 5% of income from government
  • Portland Actors Conservatory — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
  • Casa of Clackamas County — 0% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 56 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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