· Private foundation
The Quinn Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $12,000 |
| SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FDN | $6,000 |
| VALOR CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S RESTORATIVE CARE | $3,500 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| ST LUKES HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | $3,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CHERRY CREEK LACROSSE BOOSTER CLUB | $2,500 |
| 4SHAYJ FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| JSERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER5× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +26%
- EMEisenhower Medical Center5× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +94%
- SVSUN VALLEY LACROSSE INC3× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue ×20 · 38% of their budget
Funded once
- RHRIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEEone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -47%
- SVSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -55%
- TDTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +168%
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.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
See Disclosure Above.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The sarnoff cardiovascular research foundation is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-leaders in cardiovascular medicine by funding and supporting medical students and physicians engaged in transformative research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Sig Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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. 48 of the 74 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 UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY LACROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Notes for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET SUN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bald Mountain Rescue Fund ↗
- Who funds 4SHAYJ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN SIG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT PTCO CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE ELEMENTARY ↗
- Who funds Cherry Creek Lacrosse Booster Club ↗
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: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Heinz Family Foundation · The Otis Booth Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · The Kipp Nelson Foundation · Sam and Peggy Grossman Family Foundation · Michael S Engl Family Foundation Inc · The Lehman Foundation · The Von Der Heyden Family Foundation · R & M Schnabel Foundation · Boswell Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation
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 Quinn Family 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.
- First Candle Inc — 46% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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