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THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC

THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,444,869 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($520,450). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
56
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$4.7M
35/56 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc does

Mission

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. Is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. Qlf's program mission follows - with its roots in the atlantic region of north america, qlf engages environmental leaders worldwide to advance community-based and larger-scale conservation and the stewardship of natural resources and cultural heritage. Qlf's vision statement follows - the quebec-labrador foundation envisions a world in which nature and human societies thrive together and people of good will collaborate to solve the global issues of our time climate change, depletion of natural resources, biodiversity loss, and planetary health. Building on a legacy of engaging a worldwide network of conservation and community leaders, qlf seeks innovative solutions and shares knowledge across generations, cultures, and borders. Qlf addresses pressing global environmental challenges that focus on the organization's program pillars: biodiversity conservation, stewardship of natural resources and cultural heritage, and conservation leadership. Through its work,…

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. I. Conservation and stewardship in 2025, qlf's conservation and stewardship initiatives consisted of the sounds conservancy marine research program; biodiversity conservation; stewardship of protected areas, the maritimes; connectivity conservation & restoration in partnership with the staying connected initiative; and global stewardship initiatives. A. The sounds conservancy marine research program the sounds conservancy is an established marine research program along the six sounds, estuaries, and coastal waters of southern new england and new york. From south to north, the sounds are long island, fishers island, block island, rhode island, martha's vineyard, and nantucket. The program is dedicated to conserve, protect, and steward the sounds and its coastal waters, and support marine research, environmental policy, and environmental education within this geography. Each year, qlf awards marine research grants to graduate students and seasoned practitioners. As well, each year, qlf staff update the sounds conservancy's 200-page electronic publication, which documents the work by the fellows over recent decades. A number of sounds conservancy fellows have worked closely with…

    $557,879 spent
    52% of program spending
  2. Ii. Conservation internships the conservation internship program is managed by staff based at qlf headquarters in massachusetts. As conservation leadership is among qlf's highest priorities and a hallmark of all programs, qlf invests in the next generations of environmental leaders who are university students (undergraduate and graduates) and young professionals. In 2025, conservation interns were based on assignment in the maritimes, newfoundland and labrador. Internships provide hands-on, experiential training, and field work in biodiversity conservation and stewardship of natural resources and cultural heritage. As well, qlf offers internships in science writing and communications at the qlf headquarters.engaging the next generation conservation leaders based in massachusetts, a qlf senior consultant directs the program, engaging the next generations of conservation leaders, in dozens of rural and coastal communities along the great northern peninsula of newfoundland and southern labrador. Throughout the year, staff provide environmental education workshops to more than 300 youth and educators with a thematic focus on the impact of climate change on biodiversity conservation;…

    $68,216 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. Iii. Special projects special projects are managed by the qlf president and consist of research on new conservation initiatives both in-region and worldwide; public/private conservation partnerships and assignments; a three-year program review; and special reports and publications. Managed by qlf's president and communications director, the recent program review 2024 - 2026 provides a three-year plan and documents the organization's programmatic mission, vision, and guiding principles; program pillars, deliverables and accomplishments; and annual and multi-year program funding. In 2025, qlf president and president emeritus began writing a series of articles and chapters of a book, qlf: scaling up, which documents the evolution of a community service organization to an internationally recognized community-based conservation organization, the quebec-labrador foundation.

    $93,423 spent
    9% of program spending
  4. Iv. Communications in 2025, qlf completed the third season of its webinar series, voices of qlf, with 18 hours of live broadcast. The series highlights the accomplishments of staff and alumni who are prominent conservation leaders in-region and worldwide. Other communication initiatives include compass, the bi-annual newsletter; the annual qlf program report; and field notes, a brief quarterly review of programs; and program publications; and social media.

    $347,161 spent
    33% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,066,679.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($5.4M)2018 Revenue 76 ($1.4M) Expenses 78 ($1.5M) Net assets 102 ($5.5M)2019 Revenue 58 ($1.0M) Expenses 75 ($1.4M) Net assets 92 ($5.0M)2020 Revenue 59 ($1.1M) Expenses 68 ($1.3M) Net assets 95 ($5.1M)2021 Revenue 77 ($1.4M) Expenses 70 ($1.3M) Net assets 107 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 82 ($1.5M) Expenses 72 ($1.4M) Net assets 84 ($4.5M)2023 Revenue 66 ($1.2M) Expenses 75 ($1.4M) Net assets 82 ($4.5M)2024 Revenue 77 ($1.4M) Expenses 78 ($1.5M) Net assets 87 ($4.7M)2025 Revenue 78 ($1.4M) Expenses 76 ($1.4M) Net assets 86 ($4.7M)
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Revenue (78)Expenses (76)Net assets (86)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.1M to $5.1M (−16%).

$6.0M
$6.1M
$5.1M
$5.3M
$6.1M
$5.1M
$5.1M
$5.4M
$5.5M
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How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 2% · 2019 8% · 2020 18% · 2021 16% · 2022 4% · 2023 9% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$97k
’17
−$115k
’18
−$373k
’19
−$213k
’20
$61k
’21
$116k
’22
−$233k
’23
−$89k
’24
−$24k
’25
0.6
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reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Clare Tweedy Mcmorris

Chair & director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+1+1+0+0+0+1+3+0
No longer listed·69200010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $189k → $423k.

12 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC.

21%
largest funder
45%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 33% · 2019 25% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

54% of THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 18 states in all.

ME
VT
NH
IL
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MA
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OH
PA
NJ
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RI
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $587k on record — $190k federal, $397k state.

Federal$190k
grants $190kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$190k
State$397k
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Top programs
  • Grants$397k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 14%Fundraising 12%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
MA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Quebec-Labrador Foundation (Canada) Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC?
THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,444,869 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($520,450). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $2,444,869 in grants to THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $520,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing