· Private foundation
The Carter Dalton Quinn Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTERS | $21,000 |
| WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER | $10,000 |
| OCEAN RIVER INSTITUTE | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Carter Dalton Quinn Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $72k · revenue +766%- FFIRSTWORKS2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +41%
826 BOSTON INC2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +143%
Funded once
RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +51%- WCWORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +23%
NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +48%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Presenting orchestra classical music to underserved communities. Our mission is to make great music accessible to diverse audiences and to harness the power of music to forge lasting relationships with our community.
To stage the finest professional opera productions in Southeastern New England. To excite and build audiences for the enjoyment of a grand art form. To offer educational programs and creative community outreach events that expand the opera…
Advance the performance, study, appreciation, and enjoyment of chamber music through a program of public concerts, education, seminars, and lecture
Music worcester brings inspiring and varied musical experiences to expanding audiences through concerts, performances and educational programs.
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
The mission of the society is to promote the arts through art exhibits, awards, art classes, and demonstrations.
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.
To broaden experience, knowledge and enjoyment of every style of new music by embracing the full range of today's compositional activity and giving voice to music that might otherwise not be heard.
The nonprofit has a focus on the accessibility and impact of classical music, and uses the universal language of music as a catalyst for connection, empathy, and progress.
Organize and perform orchestra and chamber music performances for the south shore of boston and beyond.
The Chorus of Westerly is a community based volunteer organization that provides musical education, presents various musical performances throughout the year and holds an annual children's workshop in choral music
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Farms Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ocean River Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ocean River Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ORION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRSTWORKS ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds 826 BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Musicians of the Old Post Road Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN REFUGEE CARE ↗
- Who funds MASSPOETRY INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING MINDS ↗
- Who funds STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Aurea ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ress Family Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good
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 The Carter Dalton Quinn Charitable Trust 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.
- Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
- Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc — 5% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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.