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McMillen Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$4.6MArts & Culture$1.7MYouth Development$1.4MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MReligion$562kEducation$507kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $274k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $900k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORT WAYNE PARK FOUNDATION$250,000
ARTS UNITED GREATER FW$200,000
FORT WAYNE CHILDRENS ZOO$150,000
BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES$125,000
VINCENT VILLAGE INC$100,000
MISS D$65,000
COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC$60,000
FORT WAYNE BALLET$50,000
ERIN'S HOUSE$50,000
FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE$50,000
TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-SUPPORT FOR ECONOMICS$40,000
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC$35,000
TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES$30,000
COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK$30,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEART OF THE CITY MISSION FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%HEART OF THE CITY MISSION FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%HEART OF THE CITY MISSION FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%HEART OF THE CITY MISSION FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $300k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $135k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $100k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $50k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $125k → 12%POWER HOUSE ALLIANCE INC: $7k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $200k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $60k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $28k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $150k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 32 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
57

Total granted

$11M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+2%

Still filing today

81%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $501k 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
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AU
    ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $950k · revenue +161%
  • FW
    FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $700k · revenue +3%
  • TC
    TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $565k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +45%
  • MY
    METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +52%
  • BO
    BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -82%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New Hope of Indiana Inc

New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.

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2
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
3
Bowen Health Inc

To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.

Health
4
Indiana Health Centers Inc

Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.

Health
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
7
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc

Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…

Human Services
8
Indiana United Methodist Children's Home Inc

To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…

Human Services
9
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
10
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
Indiana Association of United Ways Inc

Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.

Philanthropy
12
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heartland Communities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr16%14%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr19%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr16%5%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr15%14%35–55yr19%64%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
10%
191/1,946

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 99 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
40/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILDCAT RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC — $2,650,000 · OtherWILDCAT RECREATION ASSOCIATION INCFort Wayne Park Foundation — $1,350,000 · OtherFort Wayne Park FoundationBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES — $275,000 · OtherFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $300,000 · Other+57 more — $3,151,224 · Other+57 moreARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $950,000 · Arts & CultureARTS UNITED…FORT WAYNE BALLET INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE …SCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CEN…EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureEMBASSY THE…C2G Music Hall Corporation dba Baker Street Centre — $50,000 · Arts & CultureINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $45,000 · Arts & CultureYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $535,000 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTH…COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC — $287,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE — $150,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLIT…BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF …Heart of the City Mission Foundation — $78,000 · Human ServicesHeart of t…EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 · Human Services+1 more — $7,000 · Human ServicesTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $565,000 · HealthTURNSTONE…HAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC — $164,592 · HealthHAROLD W …Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc — $100,000 · HealthNeighborh…HEARCARE CONNECTION INC — $71,255 · HealthHEARCARE …HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC — $52,967 · HealthLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC — $50,600 · HealthMATTHEW 25 INC — $50,000 · HealthSuper Shot Inc — $50,000 · Health+5 more — $98,000 · Health+5 moreFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $700,000 · Housing & ShelterVINCENT VILLAGE INC — $212,500 · Housing & ShelterCASS HOUSING INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND — $450,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $200,000 · Youth Development+3 more — $57,800 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $550,000 · International
Other$7,726,224Arts & Culture$1,465,000Human Services$1,232,500Health$1,202,414Housing & Shelter$962,500Youth Development$707,800International$550,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILDCAT RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC — $2,650,000 over 7y, 100% of budgetFort Wayne Park Foundation — $1,350,000 over 6y, 58% of budgetARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $950,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $700,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $565,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $550,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $535,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND — $450,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC — $287,500 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC — $225,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetVINCENT VILLAGE INC — $212,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $180,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC — $164,592 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC — $125,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE BALLET INC — $120,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSPECIALTY TUTORING INC — $100,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetLC NATURE PARK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $91,960 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHeart of the City Mission Foundation — $78,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetRedemption House Ministry Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHEARCARE CONNECTION INC — $71,255 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC — $52,967 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC — $50,600 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetC2G Music Hall Corporation dba Baker Street Centre — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAMANI FAMILY SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCASS HOUSING INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSuper Shot Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC — $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHEARTLAND COMMUNITIES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE ALIVE INC — $31,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACRES Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

English-Bonter-Mitche…Edward M Wilson Found…Community Foundation …The Waterfield Founda…Dr Louis a and Anne B…Howard P Arnold Found…M E Raker Foundation …Surack Family Foundat…Aws Foundation IncEdward D & Ione Auer …The James Foundation …Zollner Foundation
English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA109.5× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · The James Foundation Inc · Zollner Foundation

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 McMillen Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to McMillen Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to McMillen Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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