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Quixote Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$885k
Granted FY2018
7
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Arts & Culture$1.2MCivil Rights$275kEnvironment$165kAnimals$125kPhilanthropy$122kHealth$100kCrime & Legal$100kCommunity Improvement$60kOther$0
02FY2018 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $385k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$89,927
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$250,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
REPROJUSTICEGUY LLC$100,000
NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC$89,927
TIDES CENTER$75,000
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION$60,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVE$60,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SISTER SONG: $25k → 13%TIDES CENTER: $75k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $50k → 9%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 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
Next River

Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We cultivate the research, narratives, practices, and connections that transform our cultural landscape toward collective liberation.

Social Science
2
International Womens Writing Guild

IWWG empowers women writers with workshops events and community gatherings to encourage writing speaking and publishing

Education
3
Tides Network

The tides entities work in partnership with community leaders, nonprofits, donors, foundations, and corporations to provide fiscal sponsorship, donor advised funds, grantmaking, and other philanthropic services.

Philanthropy
4
The Alliance for Media Arts Culture Inc

To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.

Arts & Culture
5
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
6
Rules Foundation

/The Rules is a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality, climate change, and poverty around the world.

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7
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
8
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
9
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
10
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
11
Clean Energy Transition Institute

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.

Education
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Praxis Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%55%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%53%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,542

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

23 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. 23 of the 40 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION — $125,000 · OtherCENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSIONOPAL TOMETI LLC — $100,000 · OtherOPAL TOMETI LLCIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREPROJUSTICEGUY LLC — $100,000 · OtherREPROJUSTICEGUY LLCCOYA WHITE HAT-ARTICHOKER — $100,000 · OtherCOYA WHITE HAT-ARTICHOKERIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+12 more — $211,600 · Other+12 moreArt Resources International — $725,000 · Arts & CultureArt Resources InternationalAlternate RootsInc — $100,000 · Arts & CultureAlternate RootsIncNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC — $89,927 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK IN…+3 more — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSightline Institute — $104,800 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · EnvironmentTIDES CENTER — $75,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $50,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $125,000 · AnimalsTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC — $100,000 · HealthForward Together — $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $100,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,836,600Arts & Culture$944,927Environment$164,800Human Services$150,000Animals$125,000Health$125,000Civil Rights$100,000

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 budgetArt Resources International — $725,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION — $125,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSightline Institute — $104,800 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAlternate RootsInc — $100,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC — $89,927 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForward Together — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSISTERSONG INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHUNPIKE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEDGEBROOK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $6,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $4,800 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.

Tides FoundationSeattle FoundationNew Venture FundThe Ford FoundationImpactassetsincStolte Family Foundat…Surdna Foundation IncProteus Fund IncArtsfundNEO Philanthropy IncThe Kresge FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…
Tides FoundationCA17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Seattle Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Stolte Family Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Artsfund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation 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 Quixote Foundation Inc 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Quixote Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Quixote Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 40 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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