Kansas · Private foundation
The Quinn 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.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 124
- Grants FY2025
- 116
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 116
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 25
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Quinn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 124 | $3.3M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 116 | $3.5M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 100 | $3.2M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 102 | $3.4M | 53% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $4.5M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $2.7M | 76% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $3.6M | 84% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $809k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stray Dog Institute | $5,100,000 | 6 | 100% |
| Great Plains Spca | $3,322,772 | 7 | 39% |
| The Good Food Institute Inc | $2,091,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Kansas Pet Advocates Foundation | $1,774,525 | 4 | 100% |
| 50by40 Inc | $1,091,247 | 3 | 100% |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $932,500 | 4 | 0% |
| New York University | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault | $470,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Wayside Waifs Inc | $328,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Cdp North America Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 177 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Quinn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 157 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Animal Charity Evaluators · Vegfund Inc · Humane America Animal Foundation · The Greenbaum Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · A Well-Fed World · Aceso Foundation Inc · Tipping Point Private Foundation · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Karuna Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Quinn Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Quinn Foundation 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.
About The Quinn Foundation
- How much does The Quinn Foundation give?
- The Quinn Foundation reported 124 grants totaling $3,258,425 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 116 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Quinn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (65%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Education (8%).
- Who are The Quinn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Stray Dog Institute ($5.1M), Great Plains Spca ($3.3M), The Good Food Institute Inc ($2.1M).
- Does The Quinn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Quinn 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 Quinn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Animal Charity Evaluators, Vegfund Inc, Humane America Animal Foundation.
- Where is The Quinn Foundation based?
- The Quinn Foundation is based in KS.
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