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The Stephen D Quinn Foundation at a glance

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The Stephen D 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.

$417k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$257k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$2.0MRecreation & Sports$413kArts & Culture$55kHealth$55kEducation$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kFood & Nutrition$13kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
  • $250k+1 grant · $257k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS$256,695
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$118,355
BOULDER MOUNTAIN TOUR LTD$15,000
TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,000
UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH$10,000
HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RISING STAR OUTREACH INC: $10k → 8%KIDS MEALS INC: $13k → 16%RISING STAR OUTREACH INC: $8k → 8%RISING STAR OUTREACH INC: $6k → 8%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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 6 repeat orgs$716k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$1.9M
$686k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+4%

Still filing today

83%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $398k · revenue +84%
  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +39%
  • RS
    Rising Star Outreach Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $24k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
    one grant, 2021 · $331k
  • CO
    CORP OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
    one grant, 2020 · $305k
  • G1
    GROUP 1 FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +4% · 45% of their budget
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
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
2
The Utah Autism Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Utah Sports Commission Foundation

The Utah Sports Commission Foundation is a charitable organization governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports…

Recreation & Sports
4
Utah Athletic Foundation

Foster development of winter sports in utah and manage and maintain the utah olympic park, utah olympic oval and soldier hollow nordic center.

Recreation & Sports
5
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Autism Council of Utah
Health
7
Utah Geological Foundation
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8
Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit
9
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Utah Sports Commission

The utah sports commission is governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports competitions to be held in the state…

Community Improvement
11
United States Tennis Association Incorporated

The usta mission is growing tennis to inspire healthier people and communities everywhere.usta is the national governing body for the sport of tennis and the recognized leader in promoting and developing the sport's growth on every level…

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12
Utah Festival Opera Company

Elevating lives through ennobling artistic experiences by creating a nurturing environment that ensures performance excellence, creative experiences, and educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Ability Center; the most unlike its peers is Boulder Mountain Tour Ltd. 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $1,377,930 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST: $330,973 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRISTCORP OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $304,566 · OtherCORP OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS+2 more: $17,500 · OtherNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $397,930 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL ABILITY C…BOULDER MOUNTAIN TOUR LTD: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureRising Star Outreach Inc: $23,954 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGROUP 1 FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$2,030,969Recreation & Sports$412,930Arts & Culture$55,000Human Services$36,454Philanthropy$30,000Public Safety & Disaster$15,000Health$11,000

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 budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $397,930 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRising Star Outreach Inc: $23,954 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBOULDER MOUNTAIN TOUR LTD: $15,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetGROUP 1 FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5,000 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Stephen D Quinn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephen D Quinn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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