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Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$628k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA$5,000
CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC$5,000
INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF$5,000
UNITY CHRIST CHURCH OF FORT WAYNE INC$5,000
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $5k → 12%KATES KART INC: $5k → 12%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$167k · 5 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$167k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+58%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalEmploymentOther
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

  • HW
    HAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +93%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +76%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HISTORY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • VF
    VOICE FOR THE ANIMALS
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -37%
  • AI
    ALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -47%
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
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
2
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
3
Indiana Immunization Coalition Inc

The indiana immunization coalition exists to reduce the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases through immunization education, advocacy, promotion, and statewide collaborative partnerships.

Health
4
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
5
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Central Indiana Inc

To provide a supportive home-away-from-home for families of children receiving medical care at riley children's health and other area hospitals.

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6
Bowen Health Inc

To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.

Health
7
Fordland Clinic Inc

To improve the health of our wider rural community and to serve as the independent provider of choice by offering comprehensive healthcare services to all area residents without regard to insurance or income.

Health
8
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
9
Indiana Guardianship Services

At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…

Human Services
10
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
11
Indiana Health Centers Inc

Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.

Health
12
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northeast Indiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alliance Industries 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 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC: $120,000 · HealthHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INCSuper Shot Inc: $12,000 · HealthSuper Shot IncTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE HISTORY CENTER: $12,000 · OtherTHE HISTORY CENTERRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $10,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE…UNITY CHRIST CHURCH OF FORT WAYNE INC: $5,000 · OtherUNITY CHRIST CHURCH O…CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF FORT WAYNE: $5,000 · OtherCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY …CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $5,000 · OtherCANCER SERVICES OF AL…INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF: $5,000 · OtherINTERFAITH HOSPITALIT…STILLWATER HOSPICE: $5,000 · OtherSTILLWATER HOSPICEVOICE FOR THE ANIMALS: $10,000 · AnimalsVOICE FOR…FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsFORT WAYN…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $15,000 · InternationalYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesKATE'S KART INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC: $7,000 · EmploymentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$142,000Other$47,000Animals$20,000International$15,000Human Services$10,000Employment$7,000Youth Development$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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

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
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.

Lincoln Financial Fou…McMillen Foundation I…Kuhne Charles Char Fd…Zollner FoundationEdward M Wilson Found…English-Bonter-Mitche…Community Foundation …Edward D & Ione Auer …Howard P Arnold Found…M E Raker Foundation …Do It Best Foundation…Surack Family Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold and Rachel McMillen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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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