· Private foundation
Joe T and Billie Carole McMillan Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of JOE T AND BILLIE CAROLE MCMILLAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOURISH UP | $8,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| AD PLAYERS | $5,000 |
| FRONTIERS USA | $5,000 |
| FURNISH FOR GOOD | $5,000 |
| SAFE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS | $2,500 |
| STABLE RECOVERY | $2,500 |
| AGGIELAND PREGNANCY OUTREACH | $2,500 |
| AGGIELAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| RELIANT MISSION | $2,500 |
| FREEDOM CHURCH ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $2,500 |
| RELIANT MISSION | $2,000 |
| ANGELS SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 5% of Joe T and Billie Carole McMillan Charitable 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. Read by recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 49% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 15 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- MPMY POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue ×27
- JSJASON S GETAWAY2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +355%
- FFFurnish For Good Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- HEHOME ENCOURAGEMENT MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue 0%
- CCRUone grant, 2024 · $11k
- MTMusic Therapy of the Rockiesgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +26%
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.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Lazarus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 53 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 HOME ENCOURAGEMENT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A D Players ↗
- Who funds Charmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCARE INC ↗
- Who funds JASON S GETAWAY ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Furnish For Good Inc ↗
- Who funds Music Therapy of the Rockies ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENT ER ↗
- Who funds Aggieland Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Aggieland Pregnancy Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds STABLE RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom Church Alliance ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MISSION LAZARUS INC ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DILWORTH SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
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: True Homes Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Merancas Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 Joe T and Billie Carole McMillan Charitable 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% 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.