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Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
194
Grants FY2024still arriving
27
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$1.0MHealth$357kEducation$96kArts & Culture$84kHuman Services$70kRecreation & Sports$66kHousing & Shelter$28kFood & Nutrition$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 194 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k188 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$500
Median grant
27
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGINA CLERI$75,000
SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF BOSTON$50,000
FRIENDS OF HARVARD HOCKEY$50,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
THE FORMATION PROJECT$10,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC APPEAL$5,000
DAMIEN HOUSE$2,500
THE FORMATION PROJECT$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
NEW GENERATION$2,500
FRIENDS OF HARVARD BASEBALL$2,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,500
ST FRANCIS HOUSE$2,500
THE FORMATION PROJECT$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $500 → 12%OPUS BONO SACERDOTII: $500 → 10%GOOD COUNSEL: $1k → 14%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $100 → 12%OPUS BONO SACERDOTII: $500 → 10%GOOD COUNSEL: $500 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $50 → 12%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $100 → 12%OPUS BONO SACERDOTII: $500 → 10%GOOD COUNSEL: $500 → 14%GOOD COUNSEL: $250 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 17%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $3k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 93 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

93 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
55

Total granted

$1.5M
$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+33%

Still filing today

25%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionInternationalHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +78%
  • PA
    PROCTOR ACADEMY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $53k · revenue +34%
  • TF
    THE FORMATION PROJECT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $29k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • SO
    SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MP
    MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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2
Villa Mary Immaculate

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. villa mary immaculate is a member of st. peter's health partners…

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
5
Saint Mary's Hospital Inc

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint mary's hospital is a member of trinity health of new…

Health
6
St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education
7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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8
Saint Mary Home Incorporated

We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. saint mary home is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.

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9
St Peter's Hospital

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. peter's hospital is a member of st. peter's health partners and…

Health
10
Samaritan Hospital

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. samaritan hospital is a member of st. peter's health partners and…

Health
11
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint francis hospital and medical center is a member of trinity…

Health
12
Providence College

See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fletcher Proctor Fund for Destitute Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 163 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
29/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARYS PARISH: $278,000 · OtherST MARYS PARISHSISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF BOSTON: $256,500 · OtherSISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF BOSTONCLERGY HEALTH AND RETIREMENT TRUST: $256,500 · OtherCLERGY HEALTH AND RETIREMENT TRUSTSISTERS OF ST JOSEPH: $100,000 · OtherSISTERS OF ST JOSEPHREGINA CLERI: $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF HARVARD HOCKEY: $51,000 · Other+129 more: $511,684 · Other+129 morePROCTOR ACADEMY: $53,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE: $25,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,000 · EducationREGIS COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $1,800 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $63,850 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $12,500 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthTHE FORMATION PROJECT: $28,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $4,500 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesGOOD COUNSEL INC: $2,250 · Human ServicesOPUS BONO SACERDOTII: $1,500 · Human Services+5 more: $3,600 · Human ServicesETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $18,000 · ReligionTHE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC: $6,500 · ReligionPADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 · Religion+1 more: $500 · ReligionDAMIEN HOUSE INC: $16,750 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $7,000 · International+2 more: $1,350 · InternationalVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $15,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,528,684Education$91,300Health$81,350Human Services$42,850Religion$27,000International$25,100Housing & Shelter$15,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $63,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $53,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FORMATION PROJECT: $28,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDAMIEN HOUSE INC: $16,750 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDRE HOME INC: $8,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHERO PUPS INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood For Life Ministry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPUS BONO SACERDOTII: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLETCHER PROCTOR FUND FOR DESTITUTE CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetWOLFEBORO AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL VIETNAM WAR MUSEUM INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART SOCIETY OF MEDINA NY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE FORMATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds DAMIEN HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDRE HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HERO PUPS INC ↗

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.

B & R Charitable Foun…The Salem FoundationThe A&S Giancristofar…The Halprin Family Fo…James J Capone Charit…Rose & K V Mathew Fou…Anastasia & KR Jenkin…The Michael and Eilee…Brian & Joelle Kelly …Farrell Family Founda…Rcp FoundationLourdes Mercy Foundat…
B & R Charitable Foundation IncTN30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · The Salem Foundation · The A&S Giancristofaro Family Foundation Inc · The Halprin Family Foundation B · James J Capone Charitable Foundati · Rose & K V Mathew Foundation · Anastasia & KR Jenkins Foundation · The Michael and Eileen Considine Foundation · Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Rcp Foundation · Lourdes Mercy Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • Endicott College: 1% of income from government
  • The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 163 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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