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The Robert F 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY | $20,000 |
| PETIT FAMILY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE UNBORN | $15,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $15,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SOUTHINGTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAROLINE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WATERBURY ARC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +9%
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +87%- FOFRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Done grant, 2024 · $10k
- GLGREATER LAWRENCE DISASTER FUNDone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SSSouth Shore Peer Recovery Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +114%
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.
The mission of Hartford Catholic Worker is to practice the works of mercy. We do this through our work with children and families in our neighborhood, helping to make sure the hungry are fed and helping secure housing for the homeless.
Marian house is a holistic, healing community for women and their children who are in need of housing and support services. we provide a safe, sober, and loving environment that challenges women to respect and love themselves, confront…
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
The organization supports the physical, social, psychological and spiritual development of individuals and families by providing home-based health and social services that lead to long-term strengthening and enhancement of family and…
Riverbrook residence is composed of people dedicated to the continuation of the uniquely nurturing community of women with developmental disabilities by creating innovative and genuine opportunities for full and meaningful community…
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
To provide family services and job training for women and their families in the greater gardner, ma area.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Founded in 1952, The Arc Quinebaug Valley is a nonprofit human services agency committed to supporting individuals (and their families) with intellectual, developmental and other life-affecting disabilities. We provide opportunities…
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
Catholic charities is dedicated to provide extensive social service programs to help people challenged by developmental disabilities, frail and vulnerable elders, families and children. the organization also provides services through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc and the most unlike its peers is South Shore Peer Recovery Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PETIT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY ARC INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds South Shore Peer Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
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.
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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 Robert F 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Waterbury Arc Inc — 89% of income from government
- South Shore Peer Recovery Inc — 68% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 5% 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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