How much does Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust give?

Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $32,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Human Services (22%), Recreation & Sports (12%).

Who are Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc ($79k), Lake Cooper Foundation ($28k), Keokuk Parks Foundation ($22k).

Does Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Howard Jackson Trust Foundation, Keokuk Area Community Foundation, Heartland Charitable Trust.

Where is Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust based?

Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust is based in IA.

Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust

Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$137kHuman Services$110kRecreation & Sports$62kYouth Development$35kEducation$28kCommunity Improvement$24kFood & Nutrition$16kEnvironment$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$835k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GRAND THEATER COMMISSION	$6,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
LAKE COOPER FOUNDATION	$5,000
HOERNER YMCA	$5,000
RAND PARK PAVILION COMMISSION	$3,000
AMERICAN LEGION	$2,500
KEOKUK PARKS FOUNDATION	$2,500
LOADS OF LOVE LAUNDRY OUTREACH	$1,500
KARE	$1,000
TTT SOCIETY OF KEOKUK	$500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$376k · 21 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -45% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$376k

$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

-45%

Still filing today

29%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEmploymentYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

HY
Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc
7× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +54%
LC
LAKE COOPER FOUNDATION
5× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +14%
MS
MAIN STREET KEOKUK INC
2× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +101%

Funded once

CE
Camp Eastman Development Assn
one grant, 2023 · $20k
KU
KEOKUK UNION DEPOT FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -51%
FC
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $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.

Keokuk County Fair

To provide a county fair for rural iowa

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Keokuk Economic Development Corporation

Economic development for keokuk, ia and surrounding community.

Community Improvement

Keokuk Area Convention Center & Tourism Bureau Fdn

To promote tourism activities in the local area

Arts & Culture

Americas First Great Dam Foundation Inc

Educate and preserve history keokuk dam

Human Services

Keota Unlimited

Keota is located in Keokuk County, Iowa, which has been declared an economically disadvantaged area of the state. Keota is a small farming community of approximately 1,000 people located in Southeastern Iowa, approximately 1 hour from any…

Education

Keokuk Xii

Philanthropy

Keokuk Homeless Alliance Inc

Helping the homeless

Housing & Shelter

Friends of Lacey-Keosauqua State Park

Support of local state park

Public Benefit

Ida Grove Community Foundation Inc

Programs for Ida Grove, Iowa and surrrounding area.

Community Improvement

Waynoka Historical Society

Preserving waynoka railroad depot

Arts & Culture

Barber County Development Inc

Economic development

Community Improvement

Kossuth County Historical Society

Historical society to promote education about kossuth county, iowa history.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Main Street Keokuk Inc; the most unlike its peers is Industrial Opportunities 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

15 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. 15 of the 47 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

6/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$312,676Human Services$102,776Arts & Culture$37,500Philanthropy$27,000Youth Development$20,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Employment$2,500Public Safety & Disaster$400

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

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.

Howard Jackson Trust FoundationIA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Howard Jackson Trust Foundation · Keokuk Area Community Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Keokuk XII · Lee County Youth Services Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home