Illinois · Private foundation
James Millikin Trust A
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $828k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations James Millikin Trust A funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $828k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $773k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $795k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $859k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $802k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $833k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $826k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $797k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millikin University | $2,150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Community Health Improvement Center | $640,268 | 6 | 1% |
| Richland Community College | $590,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Webster Cantrell Youth Advocacy | $191,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Northeast Community Fund | $176,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Good Samaritan Inn | $127,500 | 8 | 5% |
| Dove Inc | $125,847 | 4 | n/a |
| James Millikin Homestead Inc | $113,800 | 5 | 51% |
| Woodford Homes Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Children's Museum of Illinois | $95,000 | 3 | 13% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
James Millikin Trust A supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Macon County · John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee · Andreas Foundation · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · Amherst F Hardy Foundation · Howard G Buffett Foundation · Edward Whinnery Trust · Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation · Michael D Andreas Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About James Millikin Trust A
- How much does James Millikin Trust A give?
- James Millikin Trust A reported 13 grants totaling $827,520 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James Millikin Trust A fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Health (11%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are James Millikin Trust A's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Millikin University ($2.1M), Community Health Improvement Center ($640k), Richland Community College ($590k).
- Does James Millikin Trust A fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James Millikin Trust A accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James Millikin Trust A?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Macon County, John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee, Andreas Foundation.
- Where is James Millikin Trust A based?
- James Millikin Trust A is based in IL.
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