How much does Frances Goll Mills Fund give?

Frances Goll Mills Fund reported 6 grants totaling $220,365 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Frances Goll Mills Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Community Improvement (15%), Human Services (13%).

Who are Frances Goll Mills Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Great Lakes Bay Health Centers ($200k), Saginaw Future Inc ($150k), Covenant Academies Foundation ($130k).

Does Frances Goll Mills Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Frances Goll Mills Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Frances Goll Mills Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bay Area Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, Saginaw Community Foundation.

Where is Frances Goll Mills Fund based?

Frances Goll Mills Fund is based in OH.

Foundation Dossiers

Ohio · Private foundation

Frances Goll Mills Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$220k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Grants FY2025: 7
Organizations funded FY2024: 71%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 12; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $3.8M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Frances Goll Mills Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureReligionOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	5	$208k	20%
FY2024	7	$214k	71%
FY2023	7	$213k	57%
FY2022	10	$395k	40%
FY2021	6	$285k	33%
FY2020	8	$144k	75%
FY2018	12	$261k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$491kCommunity Improvement$281kHuman Services$245kHealth$225kEducation$170kPhilanthropy$119kHousing & Shelter$100kYouth Development$85kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers	$200,000	2	0%
Saginaw Future Inc	$150,000	2	9%
Covenant Academies Foundation	$130,000	2	6%
Saginaw-Shiawassee Habitat for Humanity	$100,000	2	4%
First Ward Community Service	$100,000	1	9%
First Congregational Church of Kalamazoo	$75,000	1	n/a
Bay Future Inc	$60,000	5	3%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Great Lakes Bay Region	$50,000	1	3%
Great Lakes Bay Foundation	$30,000	2	3%
Pride in Saginaw Inc	$25,500	3	6%

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All grantees of Frances Goll Mills Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers	$200,000	2	0%
Saginaw Future Inc	$150,000	2	9%
Covenant Academies Foundation	$130,000	2	6%
Saginaw-Shiawassee Habitat for Humanity	$100,000	2	4%
First Ward Community Service	$100,000	1	9%
First Congregational Church of Kalamazoo	$75,000	1	n/a
Bay Future Inc	$60,000	5	3%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Great Lakes Bay Region	$50,000	1	3%
Great Lakes Bay Foundation	$30,000	2	3%
Pride in Saginaw Inc	$25,500	3	6%
YWCA Great Lakes Bay Region	$25,000	2	4%
Lifeclinic Community Resources	$25,000	1	3%
Saginaw Valley State University	$22,500	1	n/a
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan	$20,000	2	0%
Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio	$20,000	1	1%
Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy	$15,000	1	3%
United Way of Bay County	$15,000	2	1%
Fish Tales	$10,000	1	1%
Antique Toy and Firehouse Museum	$10,000	1	4%
The Diaper Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	10%
READ Association of Saginaw County	$9,745	1	6%
Delta College Foundation	$8,000	2	0%
Bay Area Women's Center	$5,000	1	0%
Good Samaritan	$5,000	1	3%
Bay Sail Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Bay Community Tennis Association	$3,000	1	2%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($591k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frances Goll Mills Fund supplied at peak.

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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 24.

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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.

Bay Area Community FoundationMI36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bay Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Morley Foundation · Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial 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 Frances Goll Mills Fund

How much does Frances Goll Mills Fund give?: Frances Goll Mills Fund reported 6 grants totaling $220,365 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Frances Goll Mills Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Community Improvement (15%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Frances Goll Mills Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Great Lakes Bay Health Centers ($200k), Saginaw Future Inc ($150k), Covenant Academies Foundation ($130k).
Does Frances Goll Mills Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frances Goll Mills Fund accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Frances Goll Mills Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bay Area Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, Saginaw Community Foundation.
Where is Frances Goll Mills Fund based?: Frances Goll Mills Fund is based in OH.