· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NE NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY MERCY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RIDGEWOOD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
- GHGAMMON HOUSE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $123k · revenue +56% · 64% of their budget
Funded once
- NTNATIONAL TRAIL PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2017 · $200k
- SPSNYDER PARK GARDENSone grant, 2018 · $13k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +19%
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walter S Quinlan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter S Quinlan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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