How much does The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation give?

The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $300,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Health (23%), Human Services (16%).

Who are The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Basilica Landmark ($70k), Washburn Center for Children ($69k), St David's Center ($49k).

Does The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.

Where is The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation based?

The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation is based in MN.

The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation

The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Elizabeth C Quinlan 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.

$301k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$584kHealth$355kHuman Services$245kHousing & Shelter$104kEducation$93kYouth Development$92kCrime & Legal$30kPhilanthropy$23kOther$0

02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k36 grants · $211k
$10k–50k6 grants · $90k

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE BASILLICA LANDMARK	$25,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES	$25,000
ST DAVID'S CENTER	$10,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS	$10,000
PEOPLE INCORPORATED	$10,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC	$10,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO	$8,000
TUBMAN	$8,000
GUTHRIE THEATER	$8,000
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION	$8,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN	$8,000
TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION	$8,000
ST MARY'S HEALTH CLINICS	$8,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS	$8,000
ST PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA	$8,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 64 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+13%

Still filing today

73%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

TB
THE BASILICA LANDMARK
6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +408%
WC
Washburn Center for Children
6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +37%
SD
ST DAVID'S CENTER
6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +75%

Funded once

CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCE
one grant, 2023 · $20k
GT
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -21%
CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL MPLS
one grant, 2020 · $15k

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.

Park Square Theatre

To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

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Theater Mu Incorporated

Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

—

Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

—

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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The Great Northern Winter Festival

The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…

Arts & Culture

Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

—

Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy

Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Museum of American Art

The m inspires understandings of identities, experiences, and complex truths through american art.

Arts & Culture

St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charities Review Council; the most unlike its peers is Giving Voice Initiative. 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 72 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/50

Grantees still filing

37/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$529,000Other$523,000Human Services$235,000Health$152,000Youth Development$68,000Education$40,000Housing & Shelter$26,000

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

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 Minneapolis FoundationMN47.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Target Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation

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 Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elizabeth C Quinlan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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