· Private foundation
Don & Colletta McMillian Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of DON & COLLETTA MCMILLIAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $612k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $991k
- $250k+1 grant · $364k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL | $364,000 |
| THE TIRR FOUNDATION | $229,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICENE | $219,000 |
| HOLLY HALL SCHOOL | $219,000 |
| HOUSTON CHRISTAIN UNIVERSITY | $219,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FDT | $55,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY-WACO | $50,000 |
| 100 CLUB OF HOUSTON | $48,000 |
| GLIDDEN BAPTIST CHURCH | $45,000 |
| CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES | $41,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $29,000 |
| ST JUDES RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $26,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NM | $25,000 |
| MEMORIAL ASISTANCE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| ROAD RUNNER FOOD BANK INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% 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 +26% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 22 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $634k 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
- TFTIRR Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $451k · revenue +90%
- HCHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $443k · revenue +84%
- BCBaylor College of Medicine2× · 2019–2023 · $213k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- HMHOUSTON METHODISST HOSPITAL FDTone grant, 2023 · $200k
- BSBAYLORHANKAMER SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2021 · $30k
- NCNORTHERN CALIFORNIA SPINAL CORD NEWone grant, 2023 · $28k
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.
Provision and management of property on which a family of nonprofit ministries carries out programs and services for vulnerable children and families.
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Baptist Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% 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 17% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 108 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 TIRR Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Fay School ↗
- Who funds ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AT HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds PNM TNMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OUTDOOR DREAMS ↗
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: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Corio Foundation · Larry and Anna B Harris Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings 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 Don & Colletta McMillian 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.
- Jack the Bike Man Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.