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Mill Creek Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$247k
Granted FY2022
52
Grants FY2022
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$110kEducation$84kHuman Services$64kFood & Nutrition$63kCommunity Improvement$57kRecreation & Sports$36kYouth Development$24kHealth$21kOther$0
02FY2022 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 52 grants below total $219,867 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $247,367 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k48 grants · $150k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$3,000
Median grant
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chamber of Commerce-Community Venue$25,000
Chamber of Commerce-Carryover$25,000
EGSC Foundation-Athletic Program$10,000
Summertown Food Pantry$10,000
St. Philip Center of Hope$8,000
Franklin Memorial Library-RIF$8,000
Bd of Education-AEDs$7,900
Sunshine House CAC$7,500
Friends of G L Smith State Park$5,500
EGSC Foundation-Apiary Project$5,370
Wreaths Across America-Veterans$5,000
New Beginnings in Christ$5,000
ECI Technology Student Assoc$5,000
Emanuel Resource Center$5,000
TLC Childrens Services$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%SEE ATTACHED -: $250k → 21%SEE ATTACHED: $222k → 21%SEE ATTACHED -: $221k → 21%SEE ATTACHED -: $206k → 21%SEE attached: $197k → 21%SEE ATTACHED: $186k → 21%HISTORIC DIXIE THEATRE: $25k → 21%LEADERSHIP EMANUEL: $8k → 21%COMMUNITY ACTION FOR YOUTH: $7k → 21%FRANKLIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $7k → 21%TLC CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 21%SOUTHEASTERN TECH COLLEGE: $5k → 21%WEEKEND BLESSINGS: $5k → 21%SWAINSBORO SHRINE CLUB: $5k → 21%FRIENDS: $5k → 21%SONS OF AMERICAN LEGION: $5k → 21%MOGAN HOUSE: $5k → 21%SOUTHEASTERN TECH: $5k → 21%EGSC STUDY ABROAD: $5k → 21%EMAN SR CTR MEALS: $5k → 21%GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK: $5k → 21%HISTORIC TWIN CITY: $5k → 21%EGSC FOUNDATION CHOICE: $5k → 21%SUMMERTOWN FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 21%PINETREE FESTIVAL: $5k → 21%VISION 2020 CHAMBER: $5k → 21%EMANUEL BOSE TCES: $5k → 21%EMPTY STOCKING FUND: $4k → 21%EMANUEL BOE FINE ARTS: $4k → 21%BOE SHS BAND CARNEIGE: $4k → 21%BOE SES RADING MATH: $3k → 21%NUNEZ FIRE DEPT: $3k → 21%EMANUEL SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 21%EGSC PROTECTIVE VEST: $3k → 21%SWAINSBORO EXCHANGE CLUB: $3k → 21%EGSC: $3k → 21%DYL WORLD SERIES: $3k → 21%EGSC FOUNDATION INVENT: $2k → 21%EMANUEL HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 21%EMANUEL BOE: $2k → 21%ST PHILLIP CENTER OF HOPE: $2k → 21%FRANKLIN MEMORIAL: $2k → 21%FISHERS OF MEN CRUSADE: $2k → 21%STILLMORE VBS: $2k → 21%SUNSHINE HOUSE 25TH: $2k → 21%EMANUEL 4H: $2k → 21%HEALTHY U FAIR: $1k → 21%EMANUEL ARTS COUNCIL: $1k → 21%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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$106k · 10 repeat orgs$461k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
69

Total granted

$106k
$305k

Still filing today

0%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’22
Food & NutritionCivil RightsOther

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

  • SF
    Summertown Food Pantry
    2× · 2019–2022 · $20k
  • SH
    Sunshine House CAC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $18k
  • FM
    Franklin Memorial Library-RIF
    2× · 2019–2022 · $15k

Funded once

  • SG
    Special Grant-Jean Morgan Tribute-EGSC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • HD
    HISTORIC DIXIE THEATRE
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • HD
    Historic Dixie Theater
    one grant, 2019 · $11k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

3 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 114 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
3/3
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Chamber of Commerce-Community Venue — $25,000 · OtherSpecial Grant-Jean Morgan Tribute-EGSC — $25,000 · OtherHISTORIC DIXIE THEATRE — $25,000 · OtherChamber of Commerce-Carryover — $25,000 · OtherSummertown Food Pantry — $20,000 · Other+107 more — $436,675 · Other+107 moreGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionTLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$556,675Food & Nutrition$5,000Civil Rights$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds TLC CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mill Creek 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 114 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $250k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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