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Walter S Quinlan 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Walter S Quinlan Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Springfield Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Walter S Quinlan Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $628k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2020
- Under $10k19 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $413k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINGFIELD FOUNDATION | $156,508 |
| SPRINGFORWARD | $125,000 |
| WHITTENBERG UNIVERSITY | $67,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART | $64,000 |
| WESCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| CITY OF SPRINGFIELD OH | $25,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $23,500 |
| THE GAMMON HOUSE | $20,000 |
| OHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| SNYDER PARK GARDENS-ARBORETUM | $12,500 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NE NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| RIDGEWOOD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PROJECT WOMEN | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
41 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2020, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SCSPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue +104% · 32% of their budget
- WHWESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +19%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- NTNATIONAL TRAIL PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2017 · $200k
- SPSNYDER PARK GARDENSone grant, 2018 · $13k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +19%
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 springfield college is to educate students in spirit, mind and body for leadership in service to others by building on a foundation of the college's humanics philosophy, academic excellence, service, and student success.…
The mission of the springfield daily citizen is to inform our community and be a catalyst for good.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
The springfield museums corporation is a non-profit organization which holds and cares for collections in the fields of art, history, and science and makes them accessible for educational, recreational and informational purposes to a…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Springmont provides a learning environment where diversity of thought and global perspective empower students to be inquisitive, knowledgeable, independent, compassionate and effective.
To preserve and protect historic buildings in and around springfield, ohio, including specifically the clubhouse and golf course deemed historically and/or architecturally significant of springfield county club, in order to perpetuate the…
Economic development of springfield and clark county ohio.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Dedicated to advancing the art of ballet through premier education, performance, outreach and collaberation.
See schedule othe democracy collaborative was established in 2000 to advance understanding of democracy for the 21st century and to promote emerging strategies and innovations in community development that enhance democratic life. in…
To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springfield Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Stamford Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 59 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 SPRINGFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFORWARD ↗
- Who funds WESTCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAMMON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds Springfield Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WOMAN OF SPRINGFIELD & CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds ON-THE-RISE ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
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: The Springfield Foundation · Harry and Violet Turner 95 Charitable Trust · Della Selsor Tr Uw · Assurant Foundation · The United Way of Clark Champaign & Madison Counties Inc · Wilson Sheehan Foundation · Community Hospital Health Services Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · Crabill Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · The Tiller Family Foundation · Taj 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 Walter S Quinlan 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.
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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