· Private foundation
Alex McMillan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - UW TERMED PROFESSORSHIP | $25,000 |
| LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - UW FOUNDATION-ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FUND | $20,000 |
| AGROS INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| ATLAS FREE (FKA RESCUE FREEDOM) | $10,000 |
| LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FUSAVI | $10,000 |
| 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION | $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, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- LCLos Cabos Children's Foundation5× · 2018–2024 · $68k · revenue +50%
- AIAGROS INTERNATIONAL5× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +233%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $36k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- UMUW MEDICINENORTHWESTone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -48%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (UW SPORTS SCHOLARSHIP)one grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agros International and the most unlike its peers is Family of God Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 53 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 Los Cabos Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds AGROS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RYTHER ↗
- Who funds FOUR WINDS ↗
- Who funds UW MEDICINENORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PORTAL FOR INVESTMENT IN THE LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL SECTOR ↗
- Who funds 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Earthcorps ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds RIVKIN CENTER FOR OVARIAN CANCER ↗
- Who funds VILLA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY OF GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · United Way of King County · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Foster Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Moccasin Lake 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 Alex McMillan Family 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.