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Debra Powell Mills Charitable 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$95k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
HealthAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$5k50%
FY20244$5k50%
FY20234$4k75%
FY20223$5k33%
FY20217$4k57%
FY20203$2k100%
FY20195$3kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Youth Development$5kAnimals$5kEducation$3kHealth$3kPublic Benefit$3kFood & Nutrition$2kRecreation & Sports$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
OH
PA
KY
AZ
DC
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Life$5,30050%
Kentucky Equine Humane Center Inc$5,00030%
Berea College$3,00010%
Team Kentucky Inc$2,0003n/a
God's Pantry Food Bank Inc$1,00020%
Aloha United Way Inc$1,00010%
Refuge for Women Inc$1,00020%
Shepherd's House Inc$50010%
Refuge Ministries Inc$50010%
The Hope Center Inc$50010%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Life$5,30050%
Kentucky Equine Humane Center Inc$5,00030%
Berea College$3,00010%
Team Kentucky Inc$2,0003n/a
God's Pantry Food Bank Inc$1,00020%
Aloha United Way Inc$1,00010%
Refuge for Women Inc$1,00020%
Shepherd's House Inc$50010%
Refuge Ministries Inc$50010%
The Hope Center Inc$50010%
Helphopelive Inc$50010%
The Larry H Spears Foundation Inc$50011%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Life: $5,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Equine Humane Center Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBerea College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Pantry Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAloha United Way Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefuge for Women Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShepherd's House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefuge Ministries Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hope Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelphopelive Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Larry H Spears Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation

How much does Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation give?
Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $4,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (21%), Animals (19%), Education (12%).
Who are Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Young Life ($5k), Kentucky Equine Humane Center Inc ($5k), Berea College ($3k).
Does Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation based?
Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation is based in KY.

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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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