Georgia · Private foundation
Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $4.5M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $380k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $3.3M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $2.9M | 55% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $3.0M | 88% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $1.4M | 36% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $2.1M | 69% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $4.1M | 91% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc | $2,475,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Feeding the Valley Inc | $1,181,068 | 4 | 6% |
| The Columbus Museum Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Springer Opera House Arts Associationinc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 40% |
| The Columbus Botanical Gardens Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 74% |
| Columbus Economic Development Corporation Inc | $999,449 | 2 | 65% |
| Historic Columbus Foundation Inc | $900,000 | 2 | 39% |
| Columbus State University Foundation Inc | $601,333 | 2 | 1% |
| Easter Seals West Georgia Inc | $501,171 | 1 | n/a |
| Pastoral Institute Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc
- How much does Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc give?
- Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $5,366,437 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Arts & Culture (18%), Education (10%).
- Who are Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc ($2.5M), Feeding the Valley Inc ($1.2M), The Columbus Museum Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc, Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc, Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc based?
- Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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