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Quintin 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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Health$285kHuman Services$70kAnimals$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kRecreation & Sports$20kEducation$10kEmployment$10kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUTISM SPEAKS$50,000
ST DAVID'S CENTER$10,000
HIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB$10,000
CAN DO CANINES$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA$10,000
ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$5,000
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 (FY22–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $10k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $10k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 11%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.

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 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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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4
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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5
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
6
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
7
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
8
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
9
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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10
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
11
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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12
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Highland Friendship Club. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr15%39%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%42%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr13%11%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
14%
1,959/13,967

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

21 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. 21 of the 24 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DYRK1A SYNDROME US — $200,000 · HealthDYRK1A SYNDROME USAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $50,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INCCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthCAN DO CANINES — $20,000 · OtherCAN DO CANINESTHE LISTENING HOUSE — $10,000 · OtherTHE LISTENING HOUSESALVATION ARMY — $10,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC — $10,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNE…UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC — $5,000 · OtherAUTISM ALLIES — $5,000 · OtherTRUE FRIENDS — $10,000 · OtherTRUE FRIENDSMINNESOTA LAND TRUST — $10,000 · OtherMINNESOTA LAND TRUSTST DAVID'S CENTER — $10,000 · OtherST DAVID'S CENTERSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $5,000 · OtherSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS — $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesSABATHANI C…GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $10,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MIN…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $20,000 · InternationalTHE BOND BETWEEN — $10,000 · AnimalsAnimal Humane Society — $10,000 · AnimalsADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC — $10,000 · EducationHIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB — $10,000 · EducationMERRICK INC — $10,000 · EmploymentOPPORTUNITY PARTNERS — $10,000 · Employment
Health$260,000Other$95,000Human Services$50,000International$20,000Animals$20,000Education$20,000Employment$20,000

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 budgetDYRK1A SYNDROME US — $200,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAN DO CANINES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOND BETWEEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERRICK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PARTNERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…The K FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Land O'Lakes Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The K Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Quintin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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