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The Quinn Foundation
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 $10k74 grants · $257k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $586k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $659k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRAY DOG INSTITUTE | $800,000 |
| KANSAS PET ADVOCATES FOUNDATION | $481,300 |
| GREAT PLAINS SPCA | $466,272 |
| MOCSA | $265,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $247,500 |
| THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE | $140,000 |
| SAFEHOME | $106,000 |
| KARUNA FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| NATIONAL GREAT PYRENEES RESCUE INC | $55,000 |
| FARM ACTION | $50,000 |
| THRIVE PHILANTHROPY INC | $49,375 |
| A WELL-FED WORLD | $42,500 |
| SENTIENT MEDIA | $25,000 |
| ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
| LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% 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.
120 repeat relationships — 91 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 25 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k 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
- GPGREAT PLAINS SPCA6× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +6% · 39% of their budget
- TGTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +432%
- HWHumane World for Animals Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $808k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- GCGame Changers Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +269%
- KCKC CAMPUS FOR ANIMAL CAREone grant, 2021 · $200k
LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +22%
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.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
Growing respect and acceptance for veganism through our dedicated work of rescue and creative care, impactful vegan food programs, vibrant education, and consistent advocacy; all strengthened by our engagement with a rising global network…
Global food partners ("gfp") is an animal protection organization whose mission is to help food businesses meet their cage-free egg commitments and producers implement cage-free best practices.
Food animal concerns trust (fact) promotes the safe and humane production of meat, milk, and eggs. fact envisions that all food-producing animals be raised in a healthy and humane manner so that everyone will have access to safe and…
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Animal and Vegan Advocacy International, Inc. is dedicated to creating a world in which animals are removed from the food system and other human uses. It furthers this mission by convening advocates through an international conference…
Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…
Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy for Animals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stray Dog Institute. 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 17 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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.
160 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. 160 of the 214 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 STRAY DOG INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PET ADVOCATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 50BY40 INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds CDP NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FARM ACTION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GREAT PYRENEES RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds A Well-Fed World ↗
- Who funds Game Changers Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL OUTLOOK INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds FARM FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds New Roots Institute ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CAMPUS FOR ANIMAL CARE ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
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: 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
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 Foundation 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.
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% 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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