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Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation

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.

$35k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$628k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalEmploymentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$35k80%
FY20245$37k40%
FY20233$34k67%
FY20225$35k40%
FY20214$30k50%
FY20205$35k80%
FY20192$25k50%
FY20182$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$152kHuman Services$25kAnimals$20kYouth Development$20kArts & Culture$17kReligion$10kEmployment$7k

Top grantees

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

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarold W McMillen Center for Health Education Inc: $120,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern in Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSuper Shot Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Indiana Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFort Wayne Zoological Society Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance Industries Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Morgan Adams Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA Northeast Indiana Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChrist Child Society of Fort Wayne: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCancer Services of Allen County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHealthier Moms and Babies Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKate's Kart Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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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 12.

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.

Lincoln Financial Foundation IncPA24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · Zollner Foundation · Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Do It Best Foundation Inc · Surack Family 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.

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About Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation

How much does Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation give?
Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (61%), Human Services (10%), Animals (8%).
Who are Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Harold W McMillen Center for Health Education Inc ($120k), Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc ($15k), Super Shot Inc ($12k).
Does Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc, McMillen Foundation Inc, Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main.
Where is Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation based?
Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation is based in MO.

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 19 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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