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.

The Quinn Foundation

The Quinn Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

124

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$800k

Largest

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.

Animals$15MFood & Nutrition$3.4MEducation$1.8MEnvironment$767kCrime & Legal$594kPhilanthropy$436kArts & Culture$317kHuman Services$163kOther$0

02FY2025 · 124 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k77 grants · $243k
$10k–50k36 grants · $631k
$50k–250k7 grants · $543k
$250k+4 grants · $1.8M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STRAY DOG INSTITUTE	$800,000
KANSAS PET ADVOCATES FOUNDATION	$460,000
RINGO'S FUND	$300,000
GREAT PLAINS SPCA	$281,500
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS	$125,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$105,000
THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE	$91,000
THRIVE PHILANTHROPY INC	$59,875
KARUNA FOUNDATION	$57,500
NATIONAL GREAT PYRENEES RESCUE INC	$55,000
Individual grant recipient	$50,000
ON A MISSION	$40,000
FARM ACTION	$40,000
HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION	$35,000
VEGAN HACKTIVISTS INC	$35,000

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, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$24M · 142 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

142 repeat relationships: 99 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

142

Total granted

$24M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+27%

Still filing today

77%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $501k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsFood & NutritionEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

GP
GREAT PLAINS SPCA
7× · 2019–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +6% · 39% of their budget
TG
THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +432%
HW
Humane World for Animals Inc
4× · 2022–2025 · $933k · revenue +32%

Funded once

KC
KC CAMPUS FOR ANIMAL CARE
one grant, 2021 · $200k
GC
Game Changers Foundation Incgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +269%
KC
KANSAS CITY CAMPUS FOR ANIMAL CARE
one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -80%

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.

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

A Greener World

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…

Food & Nutrition

Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services

Institute for Animal Happiness

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…

Animals

Animal Agriculture Alliance

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…

Food & Nutrition

Global Food Partners Inc

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 & Nutrition

Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy Inc

Philanthropy

Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

Food Animal Concerns Trust (Fact Inc)

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…

Animals

Humane Farm Animal Care

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

Animals

Center for a Humane Economy Inc

There are many pathways for improving the lives of animals, but encouraging corporations to embed animal protection values into their production practices, supply chains, marketing efforts and research and development activities may be the…

Animals

The Food Project Association

FarmSTAND uses legal advocacy and public education to address the environmental, labor, and animal welfare impacts of industrial agriculture and to support the viability of small family farmers.

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy for Animals Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

173 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. 173 of the 239 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)

170/173

Grantees still filing

110/173

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$14,440,885Other$6,124,054Food & Nutrition$3,051,000Education$1,106,500Environment$711,943Crime & Legal$609,000Human Services$233,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

Animal Charity EvaluatorsCA61.4× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

18get 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

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home