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Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$95k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENTUCKY EQUINE ADOPTION CENTER$2,000
YOUNG LIFE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
TEAM KENTUCKY-STORM RELIEF$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 (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LARRY SPEARS FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%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

NY
IA
OH
PA
KY
AZ
DC
HI
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 5 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$14k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+56%

Still filing today

80%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    5× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +38%
  • KE
    KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +36%
  • GP
    GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • BEREA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -13%
  • AU
    ALOHA UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -15%
  • GP
    GODS PANTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $750
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
Refuge of Hope Ministries

Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.

Religion
2
Jefferson Street Baptist Center Inc

Re:center ministries reconciles homeless and hurting people to god, family and community by the power of christ in partnership with the local church.

Religion
3
Come to Him Ministries

To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…

Health
4
Hope House Rescue Mission Inc

Hope house rescue mission strives to eliminate homelessness. our mission is "to break the cycle of poverty and despair... one life at a time." we provide physical, emotional, mental and spiritual resources regardless of race, religion or…

Human Services
5
Lexington Rescue Mission

The organization is a Christ-centered ministry that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of hurting people in the greater Lexington area. Its activities are focused on rebuilding lives.

Human Services
6
House of Hope of Kentucky Inc

To reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…

Health
7
Hospice of Southern Kentucky Inc

The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…

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8
House of Refuge Ministries

The organization provides transitional and emergency housing in conjuction withsupportive services, case management and life skills training for homeless anddisadvantaged people.

Housing & Shelter
9
Redemption Road Ministries

Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…

Religion
10
House of Refuge Inc

Christ centered residential ministry primarily helping african american men overcome their life controlling addictions so they can successfully re enter society as productive citizens

Religion
11
Women's Medical Respite

Providing holistic care in a clean temporary home for medically fragile unsheltered women.

Human Services
12
Shelter of Hope Inc

The shelter of hope's mission is to provide temporary, emergency shelter and permanent housing assistance for individuals and families in need of transitional services leading them to self-sufficiency. provisions are made without…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Larry H Spears Foundation Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEAM KENTUCKY INC: $2,000 · OtherTEAM KENTUCKY INCGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 · OtherGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGODS PANTRY: $750 · OtherGODS PANTRYAMERICAN RED CROSS-STORM RELIEF: $750 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS-STORM RELIEFMAKE A WISH AMERICA: $500 · OtherMAKE A WISH AMERICAUNIV OF KY COVID-19 SUPPORT FUND: $500 · OtherUNIV OF KY COVID-19 SUPPORT FUNDCCFA: $500 · OtherCCFATEAM KENTUCKY-STORM RELIEF: $500 · OtherTEAM KENTUCKY-STORM RELIEFALS ASSOCIATION: $500 · OtherALS ASSOCIATIONYOUNG LIFE: $5,300 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC: $5,000 · AnimalsKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMAN…BEREA COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEGEREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $500 · Housing & ShelterSHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $500 · HealthREFUGE MINISTRIES INC: $500 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INC: $500 · HealthALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LARRY H SPEARS FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$8,000Youth Development$5,300Animals$5,000Education$3,000Housing & Shelter$1,500Health$1,500Philanthropy$1,000Human Services$500

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

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
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.

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 …Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Debra Powell Mills Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 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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