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The Carter Dalton Quinn Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Carter Dalton Quinn Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$77kAnimals$72kArts & Culture$55kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$5kReligion$3kPhilanthropy$3kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$739k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTERS$21,000
WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER$10,000
OCEAN RIVER INSTITUTE$7,000
COMMUNITY SERVINGS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $1k → 16%WOMENS REFUGE CARE: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The Carter Dalton Quinn Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Carter Dalton Quinn Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$164k · 6 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$164k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $72k · revenue +766%
  • F
    FIRSTWORKS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +41%
  • 826 BOSTON INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +143%

Funded once

  • RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +51%
  • WC
    WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +23%
  • NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +48%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cambridge Symphony Orchestra

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.

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2
Salt Marsh Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Boston Chamber Music Society Inc

Advance the performance, study, appreciation, and enjoyment of chamber music through a program of public concerts, education, seminars, and lecture

Arts & Culture
4
Music Worcester Inc

Music worcester brings inspiring and varied musical experiences to expanding audiences through concerts, performances and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
5
Bowdoin International Music Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Rhode Island Watercolor Society

The mission of the society is to promote the arts through art exhibits, awards, art classes, and demonstrations.

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7
Worcester Art Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Boston Baroque Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Boston Musica Viva Inc

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.

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10
Boston Festival Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Inc

Organize and perform orchestra and chamber music performances for the south shore of boston and beyond.

Arts & Culture
12
The Chorus of Westerly Inc

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Farms Outreach Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $72,400 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INCOcean River Institute Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentOcean River Institute IncTHE ORION SOCIETY INC: $26,500 · EnvironmentTHE ORION SOCIETY INCNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC: $3,700 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRON…FIRSTWORKS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFIRSTWORKSRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $15,000 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONI…WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC …+2 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureWALTHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3,650 · OtherWALTHAM PU…RURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC: $3,000 · OtherRURAL & MI…TINY SEED PROJECT: $2,700 · OtherTINY SEED …POCUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION (PVMA): $2,500 · OtherPOCUMTUCK …Individual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual…Musicians of the Old Post Road Inc: $2,000 · OtherMusicians …WOMEN REFUGEE CARE: $2,000 · OtherWOMEN REFU…COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $1,000 · OtherGreater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: $2,500 · OtherGreater Lo…Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $10,000 · Science & Tech826 BOSTON INC: $6,500 · EducationSTRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED: $1,500 · EducationINSPIRING MINDS: $1,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$72,400Environment$60,200Arts & Culture$49,000Other$21,850Science & Tech$10,000Education$9,500Food & Nutrition$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $72,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOcean River Institute Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE ORION SOCIETY INC: $26,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFIRSTWORKS: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826 BOSTON INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC: $3,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusicians of the Old Post Road Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWOMEN REFUGEE CARE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMASSPOETRY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED: $1,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINSPIRING MINDS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAurea: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Rhode Island Comm…Eastern Bank Foundati…Citizens Charitable F…Ress Family FoundationRalph R Papitto & Bar…United Way of Rhode I…Amica Companies Found…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for Good
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carter Dalton Quinn Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carter Dalton Quinn Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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