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Millar Scholarship Fund

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$386k
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
9
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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96% of Millar Scholarship Fund’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Oregon Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
1
’18
1
’19
3
’20
4
’21
0
’22
3
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$371,877
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Millar Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20239$14k22%
FY20221$1k0%
FY202110$22k10%
FY20207$11k29%
FY20192$6k50%
FY20185$16k60%
FY20176$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$372kEducation$75k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seattle Pacific University$5,50030%
University of Portland$4,65030%
Willamette University$3,50010%
George Fox University$3,50030%
Warner Pacific University$2,65020%
Concordia University$1,50010%
Multnomah University$1,00010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.

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About Millar Scholarship Fund

How much does Millar Scholarship Fund give?
Millar Scholarship Fund reported 15 grants totaling $385,877 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Millar Scholarship Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (83%), Education (17%).
Who are Millar Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Seattle Pacific University ($6k), University of Portland ($5k), Willamette University ($4k).
Does Millar Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Millar Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Millar Scholarship Fund based?
Millar Scholarship Fund is based in TX.

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 16 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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