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Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 at a glance

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Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009

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.

$583k
Granted FY2025still arriving
121
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$297kInternational$277kHuman Services$239kEducation$212kFood & Nutrition$179kCrime & Legal$169kHousing & Shelter$164kPhilanthropy$164kOther$0
02FY2025 · 121 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k105 grants · $344k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $239k
$4,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL$30,000
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$28,000
ISLAND HOUSING TRUST$25,000
ASHLEY BRYAN CENTER$20,000
CORINTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO$15,000
MOUNT DESSERT NURSING ASSOCIATION$15,000
HEALTHY ACADIA$13,000
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC$13,000
NOVA UKRAINE$10,000
UNITED HELP UKRAINE$10,000
JUSTICEAID$10,000
RAZOM$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%NC FIELD INC: $1k → 21%GIDEON'S PROMISE: $5k → 13%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%NC FIELD INC: $1k → 21%GIDEON'S PROMISE: $5k → 13%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%NC FIELD INC: $1k → 21%GIDEON'S PROMISE: $5k → 13%NC FIELD INC: $500 → 21%GIDEON'S PROMISE: $1k → 13%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $15k → 11%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $5k → 10%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $5k → 7%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $1k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $7k → 10%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $5k → 11%PENDLETON PLACE: $5k → 10%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $5k → 14%PENDLETON PLACE: $5k → 10%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $5k → 14%PREBLE STREET: $3k → 7%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $5k → 14%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $1k → 11%PENDLETON PLACE: $5k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $5k → 10%PROJECT REST: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $3k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 10%SAFE HOMES-RAPE CRISIS COALITION: $2k → 15%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 10%PROJECT REST: $2k → 15%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $5k → 11%THE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%THE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%THE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%THE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%COMMON GOOD SOUP KITCHEN COMMUNITY: $2k → 11%COMMON GOOD SOUP KITCHEN COMMUNITY: $2k → 11%COMMON GOOD SOUP KITCHEN COMMUNITY: $2k → 11%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
NY
MA
SD
PA
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 148 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

148 repeat relationships: 108 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

148
18

Total granted

$2.3M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-13%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalHealthFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • MD
    MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $88k · revenue +7%
  • IH
    ISLAND HOUSING TRUST
    4× · 2022–2025 · $66k · revenue +256%
  • IMPACT JUSTICE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $56k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • NL
    NORTHERN LIGHT EASTERN MAINE MEDICAL CEN
    one grant, 2023 · $33k
  • WE
    WOMEN ENGAGED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +33%
  • SC
    SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION FBO SPBG COUNTY DISASTER RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
2
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
5
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
6
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.

—
9
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
10
Earthenable Inc

Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…

International
11
Hancock County Habitat for Humanity

Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.

—
12
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Missoula Urban Demonstration Project. 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

133 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 133 of the 179 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/133
Grantees still filing
83/133
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $66,000 · Other+108 more: $1,353,500 · Other+108 moreMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $88,000 · HealthMOUNT DESERT…MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC: $55,000 · HealthMOUNT DESERT…HEALTHY ACADIA: $33,000 · HealthHEALTHY ACAD…ST FRANCIS FRIENDS OF THE POOR INC: $22,000 · HealthST FRANCIS F…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $18,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN …Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $15,000 · HealthABILIS INC: $15,000 · HealthADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthThe Downeast Horizons Foundation: $9,500 · Health+3 more: $13,000 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $29,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…NOVA UKRAINE: $27,000 · InternationalNOVA UKRAI…RAZOM INC: $25,000 · InternationalRAZOM INCBRAC USA INC: $23,000 · InternationalBRAC USA I…UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · InternationalUNITED NAT…BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $19,000 · InternationalBROTHER'S …UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $16,000 · InternationalUNITED STA…ISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $16,000 · InternationalISLAMIC RE…United States Association for UNHCR: $15,500 · InternationalUnited Sta…OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $15,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMER…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVI…DIRECT RELIEF: $12,000 · International+2 more: $5,000 · InternationalPENDLETON PLACE INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesPENDLETON …THE NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $21,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT S…United Help Ukraine Inc: $20,500 · Human ServicesUnited Hel…BETHLEHEM CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM …CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Human ServicesCAMPHILL F…PREBLE STREET: $18,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STR…GIDEONS PROMISE INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesGIDEONS PR…SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GE…THE PEOPLE'S FUND: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE…FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF…PROJECT REST: $8,000 · Human ServicesISLAND CONNECTIONS: $8,000 · Human Services+6 more: $28,000 · Human Services+6 moreIMPACT JUSTICE: $56,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $32,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $17,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN ENGAGED INC: $13,000 · Civil RightsCampaign For Southern Equality: $7,000 · Civil RightsSpeaking Down Barriers: $7,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,000 · Civil RightsNORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY: $31,500 · EducationMOUNT DESERT NURSERY SCHOOL: $20,500 · EducationWilliam & Mary Foundation: $17,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $16,000 · EducationHerbal Hummingbird Hub: $10,000 · EducationUpstate Fatherhood Coalition: $9,500 · EducationISLAND READERS & WRITERS AN INITIATIVE FOR MAINE CHILDREN: $6,000 · EducationIsland Institute: $4,500 · Education+2 more: $6,000 · EducationMaine Audubon Society: $36,000 · EnvironmentNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC: $21,000 · EnvironmentNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $16,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Acadia: $9,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5,000 · Environment+3 more: $5,000 · Environment
Other$1,419,500Health$283,500International$238,500Human Services$230,500Civil Rights$134,000Education$121,000Environment$102,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $88,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $66,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetIMPACT JUSTICE: $56,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC: $55,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $44,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetMaine Audubon Society: $36,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ASHLEY BRYAN CENTER: $35,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetJusticeAid: $35,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHEALTHY ACADIA: $33,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY: $31,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $28,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOME INC: $28,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEssie Justice Group: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAZOM INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST FRANCIS FRIENDS OF THE POOR INC: $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $21,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT NURSERY SCHOOL: $20,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $20,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBETHLEHEM CENTER: $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNortheast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc: $19,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTSPACE: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $19,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetCAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND: $18,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CLUB: $17,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKENDINC: $17,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetBAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY: $17,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

The Winky Foundation …Maine Community Found…Colket Family Foundat…Spartanburg County Fo…Sisters of Charity Fo…Florence V Burden Fou…Scsymmes FoundationThe Jolley FoundationUnited Community Bank…Hattie a and Fred C L…Bristle Cone Pine Fou…Mary Black Foundation…
The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust CoDE55.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Florence V Burden Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Bristle Cone Pine Foundation 009266-000 · Mary Black Foundation Inc

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 Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
31report 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 Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 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 179 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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