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Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AD FONTEST EDUCATIONAL TRUST | $2,500 |
| YOUTH FOR TOMORROW | $2,500 |
| CARA - COMMUNITY ANIMAL RESCUE ADOPTION | $1,400 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,400 |
| SHOWER POWER | $1,200 |
| KEEP JACKSON BEAUTIFUL | $1,200 |
| HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| THE BASCOM CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS | $1,000 |
| THE MUSTARD SEED | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $550 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $500 |
| STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $350 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | $300 |
| CHILDREN'S OF MISSISSIPPI HOSPITAL | $300 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LCLiteracy Council of Highlands Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +103%
- HLHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +97%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- NBNORTHMINSTER BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
- PAPerforming Arts Center Incone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -53%
- HUHIGHLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Deep south today is a nonprofit network of local newsrooms comprising mississippi today and verite news. with its regional scale and scope, deep south today is providing critical journalism in underserved areas and ensuring its long-term…
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
Health care foundation of north mississippi is operated exclusively for the purpose of raising, receiving, and administering funds (for medical, scientific, educational and charitable purposes), to assist hospital and non-profit…
The mission of the mississippi main street association is to be a catalyst for the preservation and economic revitalization of mississippi's historic downtowns and districts.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity mississippi capital area brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
To improve lives through philanthropic leadership
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Revitalize Mississippi Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 90 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Literacy Council of Highlands Inc ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FONDREN RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Mustard Seed Inc ↗
- Who funds ANC HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AD FONTES EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds SHOWER POWER INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP JACKSON BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Hundred Club of Jackson ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Walker Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · T H Etheridge Trust · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Wesley a Caldwell Foundation Inc · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · Feild Co-Operative Association · Elmer & Gladys Ferguson Charitable Trust · Henry & Martha Hederman Charitable Foundation · Old Ladies Home Association
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.