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Dw McMillan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $533k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $585k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA | $220,000 |
| DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES | $140,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| HEALTHCARE AUTHORITY | $70,000 |
| COMMISSION-SERVICE WORK PROGRAM | $55,000 |
| HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENABLED INC | $36,000 |
| COVENANT ALZHEIMERS SERVICES | $35,000 |
| GULF COAST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $30,000 |
| WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC | $28,000 |
| SACRED HEART HOSPITAL | $26,000 |
| BAPTIST HOSPITAL | $26,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $22,000 |
| YMCA OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA | $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, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
77 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- GCGULF COAST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +1%
- BHBaptist Health Care Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +48%
- CCCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +12% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- VFVOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $6k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ECEVERY CHILD A READERone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.
As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.
Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
Providing emergency shelter and other services to persons battered and or abused, commonly referred to as domestic violence.
The mission of the organization is to offer protection and quality services for victims of domestic and sexual abuse and their minor children in st. johns county, florida through the establishment and operation of a temporary shelter and…
To provide food, shelter, medication, transportation, advocacy and counseling for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, as well as for their family members.
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
The mission of the alabama casa network, inc. is to equip and empower casa programs to advocate for all of alabama's abused and neglected children.
Gulf coast partnership, inc. (the organization) mission is to prevent homelessness in charlotte county. the organization is a department of hud lead agency on homelessness in the state of florida. the organization is funded through a…
Childnet's mission is to protect broward and palm beach counties' abused, abandoned and neglected children, to ensure their safety and to promptly provide them with a permanent, loving home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alpha Center Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 88 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Pensacola United Methodist Community Ministries In ↗
- Who funds The Arc Gateway Inc ↗
- Who funds CARLISA ↗
- Who funds FAVORHOUSE OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds STUDER COMMUNITY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST KID'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PENSACOLA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
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: Gulf Power Foundationinc · United Way of West Florida Inc · Landrum Family Foundation Inc · The Bear Family Foundation Inc · Switzer Brothers Charitable Foundation · The Chadbourne-Demaria Foundation Inc · Robert H Kahn Jr Family Foundation Dtd 6/16/98 · Mb Meyer Charitable Tr · Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · International Paper Company 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 Dw McMillan 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Citizens Moving Forward Inc — 100% of income from government
- Favorhouse of Northwest Florida Inc — 25% of income from government
- Gulf Coast Kid's House Inc — 16% of income from government
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Manna Food Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida — 5% of income from government
- Pensacola Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Arc Gateway Inc — 0% of income from government
- Baptist Health Care 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.
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