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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.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$173kHealth$86kArts & Culture$75kPhilanthropy$39kRecreation & Sports$36kPublic Benefit$12kHuman Services$8kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY$3,500
RADY CHILDREN'S RESTORATIVE CARE$3,500
NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$3,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$3,000
SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$3,000
ST LUKES HOSPITAL$3,000
4SHAYJ FOUNDATION$2,500
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$2,500
CHERRY CREEK LACROSSE BOOSTER CLUB$2,500
JSERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$2,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MIRACLE BABIES: $1k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE FUND INC: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$305k · 25 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
37

Total granted

$305k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+18%

Still filing today

68%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    5× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +26%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    5× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +94%
  • SV
    SUN VALLEY LACROSSE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue ×20 · 38% of their budget

Funded once

  • RH
    RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -47%
  • SV
    SUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -55%
  • TD
    THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +168%
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
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

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.

Education
2
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

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…

Health
3
University of California Irvine Foundation

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…

Education
4
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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5
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
6
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

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,…

Education
9
The Scripps Research Institute

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…

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
12
Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 74 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
35/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $31,181 · OtherSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCCHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY: $27,500 · OtherCHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMYSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · OtherSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION IN…UCP OF ORANGE COUNTY: $12,000 · OtherUCP OF ORANGE COUNTYSUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $8,500 · OtherSUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVALSUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART: $6,820 · OtherST LUKES HOSPITAL: $5,500 · Other+28 more: $51,660 · Other+28 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $51,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $18,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITYRIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE: $15,000 · EducationRIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SC…COLORADO ACADEMY: $10,500 · EducationCOLORADO ACADEMYCRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $7,000 · EducationSun Valley Community School Inc: $6,500 · EducationVALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+7 more: $13,750 · Education+7 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $35,500 · HealthEisenhower Medi…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $9,080 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS…ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthST LUKE'S WOOD …NORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · Health+5 more: $6,150 · Health+5 moreSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLE…SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLE…HARMON RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Arts & CultureHARMON RE…Notes for Education Inc: $5,500 · Arts & CultureNotes for…BALLET SUN VALLEY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET SU…JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $3,500 · Arts & CultureJUNIPERO …DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,000 · PhilanthropyDESERT CO…THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCO…SUN VALLEY LACROSSE INC: $19,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsBald Mountain Rescue Fund: $5,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE BABIES: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 · Human Services
Other$155,161Education$131,750Health$61,730Arts & Culture$39,000Philanthropy$38,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Human Services$6,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $51,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $31,181 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSUN VALLEY LACROSSE INC: $19,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $9,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET SUN VALLEY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBald Mountain Rescue Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget4SHAYJ FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT PTCO CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE ELEMENTARY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCherry Creek Lacrosse Booster Club: $2,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMDRC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE MIND: $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY WELLNESS INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOlympians & Paralympians Relief Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDENVER CITY LAX: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Spur Community Founda…Heinz Family Foundati…The Otis Booth Founda…Argyros Family Founda…The Kipp Nelson Found…Sam and Peggy Grossma…Michael S Engl Family…The Lehman FoundationThe Von Der Heyden Fa…R & M Schnabel Founda…Boswell Family Founda…The Springcreek Found…
Spur Community Foundation IncID19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Quinn Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Quinn Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • First Candle Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% 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 · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to The Quinn Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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