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McMillen Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$444k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$16MHousing & Shelter$4.7MHuman Services$2.6MEducation$1.6MYouth Development$320kCrime & Legal$242kArts & Culture$176kPhilanthropy$113kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $452k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO$443,840
ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION$300,000
SOUTHWEST ALANO CLUB INC$275,000
RIVER'S EDGE RANCH$275,000
SLAVE 2 NOTHING$258,000
ASHLAND HOME$188,554
THE TEEN PROJECT INC$185,000
AWAKENING RECOVERY$168,000
THE PHOENIX$150,000
STRAIGHT TALK CLINIC INC$125,000
CASA SERENA INC$100,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR RE-ENTRY PROGRAM$96,500
THE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INC$95,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
THELMA MCMILLEN CENTER$70,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%WISE PLACE: $15k → 12%HELP FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 17%WISE PLACE: $15k → 12%HELP FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%WISE PLACE: $10k → 12%THE TEEN PROJECT: $200k → 14%THE TEEN PROJECT INC: $185k → 14%THE TEEN PROJECT INC: $500k → 10%THE TEEN PROJECT INC: $150k → 10%THE TEEN PROJECT INC: $25k → 10%CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 10%PUENTE HOUSE FOUNDATION: $85k → 14%PUENTE HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%PUENTE HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%MARYVALE: $50k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $100k → 14%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 80 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
28

Total granted

$24M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+18%

Still filing today

57%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $630k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TR
    THE RIVERS EDGE RANCH
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +252% · 57% of their budget
  • TT
    The Teen Project Inc
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +102%
  • PT
    PATHWAYS TO GRAD SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $660k · revenue +39% · 95% of their budget

Funded once

  • LH
    LAUREL HOUSE - OC RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2018 · $453k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • TA
    TEEN ADDICTION ANONYMOUS
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
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
Alano House

To provide a safe and healthy environment for the alcoholic/addict and their families to find recovery and outpatient addiction treatment services

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2
The Olive Tree Sober Living
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3
Southern California Alcohol and Drug Programs Inc

Substance abuse prevention, treatment, education, and co-occurring disorders that follow or originate to the same

Health
4
Costa House Inc

House recoveryig addicts

Human Services
5
Sun Street Centers

To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.

Human Services
6
Beauty for Ashes Women's Home Inc

Drug addiction rehabilitation program

Health
7
River Bend Recovery

A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.

Health
8
Harbor House Inc

Alcohol drug rehab and halfway house.

Health
9
Malvern Center

Malvern Center is a clubhouse that provides meetings for Alcoholic Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, other addictions and 12 step programs.

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10
Streams in the Desert Recovery Hous

Will provide a substance free environment for women desiring help in their recovery process, where they can develop their faith, living and employment

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11
Genesis Sober Living Inc

Provide residential recovery housing to those who are in recovery from drug and alcohol use and, in many cases, homeless

Health
12
Womens Recovery ServicesA Unique Place

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction for women in a safe residential setting, allowing them and their young children to live together while learning the life skills necessary to become strong, responsible contributors in their…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Twelfth Step House of San Diego Inc Heartland House; the most unlike its peers is South Bay Families Connected. 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

83 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. 83 of the 124 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/83
Grantees still filing
51/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSE OF HOPE: $1,576,903 · OtherHOUSE OF HOPETHE PROMISES FOUNDATION - MIRIAMS HOUSE: $660,000 · OtherASHLAND HOUSE: $650,000 · OtherINLAND VALLEY RECOVERY SERVICES: $601,000 · OtherSLAVE 2 NOTHING: $594,000 · OtherLLUBMC: $586,500 · OtherTURNING POINT HOME: $482,400 · OtherTHE PHOENIX: $475,000 · Other+62 more: $8,593,691 · Other+62 moreTHE RIVERS EDGE RANCH: $2,522,170 · HealthTHE RIVERS EDGE RANCHAWAKENING RECOVERY INC: $630,000 · HealthAWAKENING RECOVERY INCRIVERSIDE ALANO CLUB: $600,000 · HealthRIVERSIDE ALANO CLUBSOUTHWEST ALANO CLUB: $463,500 · HealthSOUTHWEST ALANO CLUBTHE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO: $453,840 · HealthTHE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN…STRAIGHT TALK CLINIC INC: $355,000 · HealthSANTA BARBARA NEW HOUSE: $335,000 · HealthPATHFINDERS OF SAN DIEGO: $298,425 · Health+26 more: $2,800,851 · Health+26 moreThe Teen Project Inc: $1,060,000 · Human ServicesPUENTE HOUSE FOUNDATION: $185,054 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $100,000 · Human ServicesHELP FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Human Services+4 more: $183,750 · Human ServicesOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $637,918 · Housing & ShelterLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterWomen's First Step House of North County: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $53,000 · Housing & ShelterPATHWAYS TO GRAD SCHOOL INC: $660,000 · EducationSouth Bay Families Connected: $25,000 · EducationCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $375,000 · PhilanthropyIN-N-OUT BURGERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHelpline Youth Counseling Inc: $142,100 · Crime & LegalSTRIDES IN RECOVERY INC: $117,500 · Crime & LegalSOCIAL SCIENCE SERVICES INC: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$14,219,494Health$8,458,786Human Services$1,593,804Housing & Shelter$990,918Education$685,000Philanthropy$395,000Crime & Legal$309,600

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE RIVERS EDGE RANCH: $2,522,170 over 7y, 57% of budgetThe Teen Project Inc: $1,060,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetPATHWAYS TO GRAD SCHOOL INC: $660,000 over 6y, 95% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $637,918 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAWAKENING RECOVERY INC: $630,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetRIVERSIDE ALANO CLUB: $600,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetSOUTHWEST ALANO CLUB: $463,500 over 3y, 59% of budgetTHE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO: $453,840 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFIRST STEP HOUSE OF NORTH COUNTY: $442,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetBeacon House: $377,500 over 4y, 71% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSTRAIGHT TALK CLINIC INC: $355,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetGRANDVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $348,125 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEW HOUSE: $335,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetALCOHOLISM CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $318,653 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetALCANSLA INC: $308,020 over 5y, 40% of budgetThe Way Back Inc: $306,150 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetPATHFINDERS OF SAN DIEGO: $298,425 over 3y, 13% of budgetLEMON GROVE ALANO CLUB INC: $260,500 over 2y, 96% of budgetTradition One: $242,650 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO FREEDOM RANCH INC: $225,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetOrenda Veterans Project: $200,000 over 4y, 84% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOODGLEN RECOVERY JUNCTION INC: $190,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPUENTE HOUSE FOUNDATION: $185,054 over 3y, 63% of budgetHOUSE OF METAMORPHOSIS INC: $185,053 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTWELFTH STEP HOUSE OF SAN DIEGO INC HEARTLAND HOUSE: $177,800 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetSAN GABRIEL VALLEY ALANO CLUB: $151,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetCasa Serena: $150,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTorrance Lomita Alano Club Inc: $147,650 over 3y, 77% of budgetTHE TURNING POINT HOME OF SAN DIEGO: $145,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetHelpline Youth Counseling Inc: $142,100 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN CHANGING SPIRITS: $139,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $135,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTH BAY ALANO CLUB: $131,375 over 6y, 21% of budgetHIGH DESERT CHILD ADOLESCENT AND FAMILY SERVICES CENTE: $125,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetLIVE AND LET LIVE ALANO CLUB: $121,300 over 3y, 49% of budgetALANO CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA: $119,500 over 4y, 35% of budgetSTRIDES IN RECOVERY INC: $117,500 over 3y, 55% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's First Step House of North County: $100,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetSAVED IN AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPALM HOUSE INC: $99,700 over 2y, 11% of budgetHOW HALL INC: $85,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetSOROPTIMIST HOUSE OF HOPE: $80,423 over 2y, 5.8% 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.

  • Who funds THE RIVERS EDGE RANCH ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds The Teen Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS TO GRAD SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds AWAKENING RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE ALANO CLUB ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST ALANO CLUB ↗
  • Who funds THE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO ↗
  • Who funds FIRST STEP HOUSE OF NORTH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Beacon House ↗
  • Who funds CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STRAIGHT TALK CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds GRANDVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEW HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ALCOHOLISM CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ALCANSLA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Way Back Inc ↗
  • Who funds PATHFINDERS OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds LEMON GROVE ALANO CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds Tradition One ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO FREEDOM RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Orenda Veterans Project ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODGLEN RECOVERY JUNCTION INC ↗

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.

Slave 2 Nothing Found…Orange County Communi…California Community …Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Ahmanson Foundati…Women in Recovery IncThe Crean FoundationWeingart FoundationShelter Partnership I…Inland Empire Communi…The Devto Support Fou…O L Halsell Foundation
Slave 2 Nothing FoundationCA29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Slave 2 Nothing Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Ahmanson Foundation · Women in Recovery Inc · The Crean Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation

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 McMillen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McMillen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to McMillen Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to McMillen 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 124 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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