· Private foundation
James Millikin Trust A
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FIVE CITIES BAROQUE FOUNDATION & FE | $5,000 |
| JAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James Millikin Trust A funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Millikin Trust A. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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