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Quitiplas 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.

$10k
Granted FY2023
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Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your 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 FY2020–2023.

Arts & Culture$3.4MCivil Rights$950kPublic Benefit$104kEducation$103kEnvironment$22kSocial Science$11kHuman Services$2k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIES INC$10,000
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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $2k → 20%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 6 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsInternationalSocial SciencePublic BenefitOther

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

  • CS
    CULTURAL SURVIVAL INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $350k · revenue +308%
  • TP
    THE PROGRESSIVE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +66%
  • BN
    Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • RE
    ROOTSACTION EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $400k
  • AJ
    A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +270%
  • T
    TRUTHOUTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +66%

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.

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Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
2
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

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3
The Conversationalist
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4
Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Company Inc

The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. (The Daily Californian) is an independent newspaper that trains UC Berkeley students for careers in journalism and business. The paper and its digital products are the primary source…

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5
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
6
CalMatters

Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives.

Civil Rights
7
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
8
Canary Media Inc

Canary Media is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy.

Environment
9
Center for the National Interest

The center is a non-partisan public policy institution established by former president richard nixon. its current programs focus on energy, security, climate change and u.s. relations with china, japan, russia and the middle east.

Public Benefit
10
The Urbanist

Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.

Community Improvement
11
Civil Eats

Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. We publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities.

Food & Nutrition
12
San Francisco Progressive Media Center

Publishing quality local journalism in San Francisco

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nation Fund for Independent Journalisminc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Cuban Studiesinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 22 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INDEPENDENT WORLD TELEVISION INC — $3,009,839 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT WORLD TELEVISION INCTRUTHOUT — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $154,000 · Arts & CultureROOTSACTION EDUCATION FUND — $400,000 · OtherROOTSACTION EDUCA…Institute for Public Affairs — $100,000 · OtherInstitute for Pub…THELITERACY PROJECT — $100,000 · OtherTHELITERACY PROJE…THE PROGRESSIVE INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE PROGRESSIVE I…+3 more — $5,550 · OtherCULTURAL SURVIVAL INC — $349,500 · Civil RightsA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $200,000 · InternationalBay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine — $15,000 · EnvironmentSave The Bay — $5,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIESINC — $11,000 · Social ScienceThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $3,500 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$3,313,839Other$705,550Civil Rights$349,500International$200,000Environment$21,500Social Science$11,000Public Benefit$3,500

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 budgetINDEPENDENT WORLD TELEVISION INC — $3,009,839 over 2y, 47% of budgetCULTURAL SURVIVAL INC — $349,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $200,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTRUTHOUT — $150,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetInstitute for Public Affairs — $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE PROGRESSIVE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $32,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHeyday — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIESINC — $11,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSave The Bay — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC — $1,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Pea Cultural Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIndependent Media Institute — $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.

Jewish Communal FundThe San Francisco Fou…Liberty Hill Foundati…The Miami Foundation …The Ford FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…ImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…
Jewish Communal FundNY15.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Quitiplas 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 22 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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