· Private foundation
Mill-Rose Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| KIRTLAND HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT | $800 |
| SUB ZERO MISSION | $742 |
| UNITED WAY | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SIST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL OF CLEVELAND3× · 2017–2019 · $19k
- AFABMA FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $7k
- SRST ROSE OF LIMA CHURCH3× · 2017–2019 · $7k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $1k
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +13%
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.
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.
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
University circle is one of the most extraordinary cultural districts in the world. within one square mile, it is home to world-class arts, educational, and medical institutions and public spaces that welcome millions of residents,…
To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.
To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.
To preserve, develop, and share historic dunham tavern and its campus as an educational and cultural resource. we aspire for dunham tavern as an institution to provide an urban green space in midtown cleveland, and to return the tavern to…
Identify, authenticate, collect, preserve, and interpret ohio's history.
America's river roots' mission is a quest to forge deeper connections to america's inland river waterways, aiming to highlight the pivotal role the ohio river played in shaping our nation. sparked by america's 250th anniversary, this…
The city club of cleveland's mission is to create conversations of consequence that help democracy thrive. we do this in pursuit of our vision of strong, informed individuals and communities that prize freedom of speech and civil, civic…
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
United way of summit & medina works to transform our community to make it easier for people to get help and build fulfilling, healthy lives.
Lake erie nature & science center educates and inspires each of us to understand, appreciate, and take responsibility for our natural world. serving more than 100,000 people each year with animal exhibits and programs, planetarium shows,…
Moca's mission- art now, in progress - embodies our nature as a living, adaptive platform for artistic experimentation, public exchange, and civic connection. our vision - artists & art lead us to the unfamiliar, where we open and connect…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dance Stop Boosters Club Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE SUB ZERO MISSION ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL SHELTER NETWORK OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KIRTLAND COUNTRY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mill-Rose Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mill-Rose Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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