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· Private foundation
WALTER S QUINLAN FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$627k
Granted FY2024
35
Grants
3
Communities
$311k
Largest
01What you fund
0164% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Philanthropy$2.0MArts & Culture$822kHuman Services$248kEnvironment$75kHealth$65kEducation$56kFood & Nutrition$26kYouth Development$12kOther$1.8M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
—
2020
food
2021
scholarshipparish
2022
parishscholarship
2023
parishscholarship
2024
parishscholarship
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 35 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $240k
- $250k+1 grant · $311k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SPRINGFIELD FOUNDATION$310,608
- ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY$45,000
- PROJECT WOMAN$25,000
- COMMUNITY MERCY FOUNDATION$20,000
- SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART$19,000
- SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$18,000
- CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL$15,500
- WESCOTT HOUSE FOUNDATION$15,000
- THE GAMMON HOUSE$15,000
- HARTMAN ROCK GARDEN$15,000
- MOREAU COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
- SNYDER PARK GARDENS-ARBORETUM$14,000
- FRIENDS OF BUCK CREEK$12,500
- WHITTENBERG UNIVERSITY$11,000
- DAYTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$9,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 38 repeat orgs$364k to everyone else
38 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
38
10
Total granted
$4.8M
$285k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+6%
+572%
Still filing today
32%
20%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentOther
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
- SVST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $243k · revenue +37%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL6× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +6%- DCDAYTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL7× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- NTNATIONAL TRAIL PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2017 · $200k
- COCITY OF SPRINGFIELD OHone grant, 2020 · $25k
- SPSNYDER PARK GARDENSone grant, 2018 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Springfield Daily Citizen Inc
To reinvent local news in metro springfield by telling the stories of our community, bringing issues to light and encourage citizen discourse and action.
Arts & Culture
2
Springfield Museums Corporation
The springfield museums corporation is a non-profit organization which provides public access to its collections of literature, artwork, and historical treasures.
Education
3
Springfield Business Development Corporation
To provide continued revenue source for the chamber's economic dev. program; assisting business and industry and attracting new business and industry to the region.
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4
The Dayton Art Institute
Creating meaningful experiences with art
Arts & Culture
5
Springfield Symphony Orchestra
The mission of the springfield symphony orchestra is to enrich the lives of the people in springfield and the surrounding region by presenting quality performances of symphonic music and providing excellent education programs.
Arts & Culture
6
Rotary Club of Springfield Ohio -
To provide funds to worthwhile charitable entities.
Community Improvement
7
The Dayton Foundation
See schedule o for organization mission statementthe dayton foundation was established in 1921 as a community foundation to meet the changing needs and improve the quality of life in the dayton/miami valley region and serves as a vehicle…
Philanthropy
8
Dayton Theatre Guild
Provide entertainment, encourage the advancement of theater art in the community and provide an opportunity for cultural and technical growth of guild members through the experience of live theater.
Arts & Culture
9
Dayton Children's Hospital Foundation
Dayton children's hospital foundation (the foundation) exists solely to benefit dayton children's hospital (dch), and to assist dch in performing its charitable mission.
Health
10
The Dayton Bar Foundation
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11
Friends of Spring Lake District Library
Education
12
Dayton Society of Natural History
The mission of the dayton society of natural history is to create and provide meaningful and entertaining learning experiences for curious minds to engage with natural history, science, and nature while honoring and preserving collections…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent Depaul Society and the most unlike its peers is Dayton Children's Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$2,027,043Other$1,885,000Arts & Culture$822,000Human Services$248,000Environment$74,500Health$65,000Education$56,250
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 SPRINGFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFORWARD ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE GAMMON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds OHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE ↗
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.
Harry and Violet Turner 95OH22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Harry and Violet Turner 95 · Della Selsor Tr Uw · The Springfield Foundation · Wilson Sheehan Foundation · Assurant Foundation · The Tiller Family Foundation · Community Hospital Health Services · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation 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.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE GAMMON HOUSE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 471214309 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE GAMMON HOUSE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 64% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Walter S Quinlan Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Walter S Quinlan Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines