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McMillan Family 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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$531kInternational$182kReligion$151kHealth$122kEducation$40kYouth Development$30kCrime & Legal$30kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAWSON PLACE INC$20,000
BEYOND TYPE 1$20,000
SAN GIOVANNI APOSTOLO ASSOCIATION$20,000
FORTERRA NW$10,000
SAINTS PANTRY FOOD BANK$10,000
WATUMULL FAMILY CHILDREN'S FUND$10,000
EASTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NAMI WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
CA
MD
KS
DC
MS
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$944k · 11 repeat orgs$244k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$944k
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+5%

Still filing today

82%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEnvironmentReligionEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JM
    John M Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +51%
  • WF
    WATUMULL FAMILY CHILDRENS FUND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $56k · revenue +47%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON
    2× · 2023–2024 · $37k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -8%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR GLOBAL URBAN LEADERSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • MR
    MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +3%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
2
Washington Prayer Coalition

to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,

Religion
3
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
4
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
5
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

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6
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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7
Discover Your Northwest

Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.

Recreation & Sports
8
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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9
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
10
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
11
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
12
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agros International; the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Leadership Development DBA Centered: $520,900 · OtherLeadership Development DBA CenteredTHE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherTHE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONDADS: $30,000 · Other+13 more: $137,000 · Other+13 moreJohn M Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development Inc: $130,000 · ReligionJohn M Perkin…LIVE SALTED: $10,000 · ReligionLIVE SALTEDWATUMULL FAMILY CHILDRENS FUND: $56,100 · InternationalMILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $20,000 · InternationalAGROS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalLIGHTSHINE: $5,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $36,750 · HealthBEYOND TYPE 1: $30,000 · HealthNAMI Seattle: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $16,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION NW: $15,000 · EnvironmentFORTERRA NW: $10,000 · EnvironmentCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentEastside Community School: $20,000 · EducationWASHINGTON COUNTY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Education
Other$777,900Religion$140,000International$92,100Health$76,750Environment$41,000Youth Development$30,000Education$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeadership Development DBA Centered: $520,900 over 7y, 10% of budgetJohn M Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development Inc: $130,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetWATUMULL FAMILY CHILDRENS FUND: $56,100 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $36,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBEYOND TYPE 1: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDawson Place Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEastside Community School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION NW: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNAMI Seattle: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLIVE SALTED: $10,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetAGROS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAPLE VALLEY FOOD BANK AND EMERGENCY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNAMI WASHINGTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIGHTSHINE: $5,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTELEIOS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Juan Islands Museum of Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationLucky Seven FoundationMcKinstry Charitable …The Blackbaud Giving …The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McMillan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McMillan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to McMillan Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to McMillan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 32 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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