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· Public charity

Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc

To promote and assist community welfare through charitable assistance and relief

$84k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Human Services$26kHealth$25kArts & Culture$19kFood & Nutrition$19kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$9kEducation$5k
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $46,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $84,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $37,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYHEALTH CAMPAIGN$10,000
MILFORD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORA$9,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$8,000
MISPILLION ART LEAGUE$7,000
HOME OF THE BRAVE$6,500
MILFORD SENIOR CENTER$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $8k → 10%PEOPLES PLACE II: $5k → 10%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 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.

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Milford Health Care Services Inc
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Milford Regional Physician Group Inc

Our primary mission at Milford Regional Healthcare System, which includes Milford Regional Medical Center and Milford Regional Physician Group, is to provide exceptional healthcare services to all individuals in our community with dignity,…

Health
3
The Milford Hospital Inc

To effectively and efficiently provide high quality healthcare services.

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4
Milford Township Volunteer Fire Company

Fire protection services

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Delaware Hospice Inc

Our mission is to support every individual, family, and community with compassionate and expert care for serious illness. this is accomplished through a variety of programs and services: delaware transitions, delaware palliative, delaware…

Human Services
6
Milford Regional Healthcare Foundation Inc

The corporation's purpose is to provide fund-raising activities in support of and for the benefit of Milford Regional Medical Center, Inc., and Milford Regional Physician Group, Inc.

Health
7
Midwestern Connecticut Council of Alcoholism Inc

To provide help and hope for individuals, families and organizations working to overcome and prevent addictions, co-occurring disorders and associated problems.

Health
8
Making It Possible to End Homelessness Inc

The organization's mission is to increase local services and resources for the homeless. miph provides affordable permanent housing in central new jersey, giving families a stable place to live while they prepare for their lives free from…

Housing & Shelter
9
Milford Historical Society
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10
Mercy Catholic Medical Center of Southeastern Pennsylvania

We, trinity health of the mid-atlantic region and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy catholic medical center of southeastern…

Health
11
Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc

The mission of middlesex human service agency, inc. is to improve the quality of life and independent functioning of a wide variety of clients through the delivery of an extensive system of community-based substance abuse and social…

Housing & Shelter
12
Central Delaware Housing Collaborative Inc

To help low income and homeless woman and families find shelter and secure housing in central delaware.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milford Housing Development Corp; the most unlike its peers is Mispillion Art League 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE INC: $12,500 · OtherCHURCH OF THE NAZARENE INCTHE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION: $6,500 · OtherTHE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATIONMILFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $6,000 · OtherMILFORD SENIOR CENTER INCDIOCESE OF WILMINGTON SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $6,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF WILMINGTON SOCIETY OF ST …STATE OF DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRO: $5,000 · OtherSTATE OF DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATU…BAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $10,000 · HealthBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORP…BAYHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthBAYHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER …DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC: $5,000 · HealthDELAWARE BREAST CANCER CO…MISPILLION ART LEAGUE INC: $18,500 · Arts & CultureMISPILLION ART LEA…NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COUN…PEOPLE'S PLACE II INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE'S PLAC…MILFORD LIONS CLUB SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $9,509 · PhilanthropyMILFORD L…MILFORD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterMILFORD H…
Other$36,000Health$25,000Arts & Culture$18,500Human Services$13,000Philanthropy$9,509Housing & Shelter$9,000

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 budgetMISPILLION ART LEAGUE INC: $18,500 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBAYHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMILFORD LIONS CLUB SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $9,509 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMILFORD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMILFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $6,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDIOCESE OF WILMINGTON SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE'S PLACE II INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Delaware Community Fo…The Carl M Freeman Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Del-One FoundationUnited Way of DelawareCrestlea Foundation I…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Del-One Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Crestlea Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milford Lions Club Service Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • People's Place Ii Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Milford Senior Center Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Mispillion Art League Inc: 15% of income from government
  • The Home of the Brave Foundation: 8% of income from government
  • Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Bayhealth Foundation Corporation: 4% of income from government
  • Bayhealth Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Milford Lions Club Service 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $144k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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