· Private foundation
James Millikin Trust A
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $735k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| CROSSING HEALTHCARE | $150,000 |
| RICHLAND COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $93,204 |
| WEBSTER CANTRELL YOUTH ADVOCACY | $91,500 |
| DECATUR FAMILY YMCA | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DECATUR&MID-ILLINOIS | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS | $25,000 |
| DECATUR COMMUNITY TENNIS FOUNDATION | $21,847 |
| GOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE | $5,730 |
| ST PATRICK SCHOOL | $5,239 |
| JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD | $5,000 |
| FIVE CITIES BAROQUE FOUNDATION & FE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k 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
- CHCommunity Health Improvement Center6× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +47%
- NCNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $176k · revenue +158%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN INN8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $200k
- WHWOODFORD HOMES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +49%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $84k
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.
Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois
Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.
To support social services in decatur county.
Provide housing for the needy
The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.
To provide services, assistance and activities to aid low-income persons and families.
To provide child care services for local residents.
Develop commerce in the city of decatur indiana
Preservation of historical items and materials relating to this area for this communiy as well as outside visitors.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
We are a credit union serving our members with a place for loans and a place to save their money.
To coordinate non-retail business attraction, retention, and expansion efforts in macon county, illinois.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Decatur and Mid Il and the most unlike its peers is God's Shelter of Love. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 45 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 MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Community Health Improvement Center ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER CANTRELL YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN INN ↗
- Who funds JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC ↗
- Who funds WOODFORD HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER-CANTRELL HALL ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR COMMUNITY TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BABY TALK INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL ↗
- Who funds MACON RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 James Millikin Trust A 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.
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.
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