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John H and Grace McMillan Estep Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$152k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$79,617
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$5.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Community Improvement$160kRecreation & Sports$132kCrime & Legal$50kArts & Culture$46kEducation$38kHousing & Shelter$20kCivil Rights$6kHealth$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bethesda House Inc$20,00017%
Andalusia Ballet Association$10,00012%
Mizell Memorial Foundation Inc$2,00023%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($432k), not named here.

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About John H and Grace McMillan Estep Charitable Foundation

How much does John H and Grace McMillan Estep Charitable Foundation give?
John H and Grace McMillan Estep Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $152,388 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does John H and Grace McMillan Estep Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (34%), Recreation & Sports (28%), Crime & Legal (11%).
Who are John H and Grace McMillan Estep Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Bethesda House Inc ($20k), Andalusia Ballet Association ($10k), Mizell Memorial Foundation Inc ($2k).
Does John H and Grace McMillan Estep Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is John H and Grace McMillan Estep Charitable Foundation based?
John H and Grace McMillan Estep Charitable Foundation is based in AL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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