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Dw McMillan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
70
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$5.1MHealth$536kHousing & Shelter$206kFood & Nutrition$205kYouth Development$190kCrime & Legal$159kEducation$142kCommunity Improvement$88kOther$0
02FY2025 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $663k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $582k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA$220,000
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES$140,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
HEALTHCARE AUTHORITY$70,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$52,000
HEALTH DEPARTMENT$40,000
SACRED HEART HOSPITAL$37,500
COVENANT ALZHEIMERS SERVICES$35,000
COMMUNITY ENABLED INC$30,000
GULF COAST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$30,000
WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC$28,000
BAPTIST HOSPITAL$26,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND$25,000
BREWTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
SALVATION ARMY$22,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $148k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CITIZENS MOVING FORWARD INC: $500 → 9%GULF COAST KIDS' HOUSE: $10k → 16%GULF COAST KIDS' HOUSE: $10k → 16%GULF COAST KIDS' HOUSE: $10k → 16%GULF COAST KIDS' HOUSE: $10k → 16%GULF COAST KIDS' HOUSE: $10k → 16%GULF COAST KIDS' HOUSE: $10k → 16%CARLISA INC: $15k → 21%CARLISA INC: $15k → 21%CARLISA INC: $15k → 21%CARLISA INC: $15k → 21%CARLISA INC: $10k → 21%CARLISA INC: $8k → 21%VALERIE'S HOUSE: $10k → 16%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 78 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

78 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
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Total granted

$8.1M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+27%

Still filing today

35%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • GC
    GULF COAST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +1%
  • BH
    Baptist Health Care Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $153k · revenue +66%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +12% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • BS
    BREWTON SPORTSMAN CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY FL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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 House Inc

To provide direct services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and to their children and families, as well as to eliminate such violence through community education and public advocacy.

Human Services
2
Safety Shelter of St Johns County Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
3
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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4
Childnet Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Hannah's Home of South Florida Inc

To provide safety, housing, case management, linkages to social services, mental health counseling and other needed health care, and comprehensive developmental programming for single, homeless pregnant women and their babies.…

Human Services
6
Santa Rosa Kids' House Inc

To deliver a well coordinated and multi-disciplined response to child abuse in an environment that puts children first

Youth Development
7
Baptist Health System Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of god's love.

Health
8
Family Support Services of Suncoast

To be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.

Human Services
9
Jackson County Casa

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…

Civil Rights
10
Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc

Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)

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11
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated

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."

Religion
12
Florida Christian Homes Senior Housing Inc

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 94 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA: $1,320,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDADEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES: $855,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCESHEALTHCARE AUTHORITY: $372,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $315,000 · OtherHEALTH DEPARTMENT: $250,000 · Other+70 more: $3,947,600 · Other+70 moreCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND: $150,000 · Human ServicesCARLISA: $77,500 · Human ServicesGULF COAST KID'S HOUSE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,500 · Human ServicesBaptist Health Care Inc: $152,500 · HealthFRANKLIN PRIMARY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $40,000 · HealthLUPUS SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $20,000 · HealthBAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthWATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC: $144,000 · Housing & ShelterPENSACOLA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterPensacola United Methodist Community Ministries In: $112,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $70,000 · Food & NutritionSTUDER COMMUNITY INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED FUND OF BREWTON AND EAST BRE: $45,000 · Community ImprovementBREWTON SPORTSMAN CLUB: $5,000 · Community ImprovementDIXON SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC: $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Education
Other$7,060,100Human Services$343,000Health$232,500Housing & Shelter$199,000Food & Nutrition$182,000Community Improvement$115,000Education$55,000

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 budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA: $1,320,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetGULF COAST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $190,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetBaptist Health Care Inc: $152,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND: $150,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetWATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC: $144,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $120,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPensacola United Methodist Community Ministries In: $112,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetThe Arc Gateway Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCARLISA: $77,500 over 6y, 25% of budgetFAVORHOUSE OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSTUDER COMMUNITY INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGULF COAST KID'S HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPENSACOLA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED FUND OF BREWTON AND EAST BRE: $45,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetREGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $45,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetFRANKLIN PRIMARY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIXON SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAUTISM PENSACOLA INC: $32,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetAlpha Center Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetHADJI SHRINERS: $30,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Gateway Council Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSECRET PLACE HOME INC: $30,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER PENSACOLA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE EMERALD COAST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds STUDER COMMUNITY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds GULF COAST KID'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PENSACOLA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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.

Gulf Power FoundationincFL32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dw McMillan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dw McMillan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Dw McMillan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 94 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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