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Millbury 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$2.2MReligion$510kInternational$375kHousing & Shelter$190kYouth Development$185kEnvironment$178kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$1,000,000
THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$100,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$50,000
GLOBAL LINKS$45,000
EXTRA MILE FOUNDATION$35,000
OAKLAND CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$35,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$35,000
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$35,000
TIDELINES INSTITUTE$30,000
LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION$25,000
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF PITTSBURGH$25,000
DIOCESIS DE SALTILLO AR$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY$10,000
CLEVELAND CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 11%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 18 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
2

Total granted

$3.8M
$40k

Still filing today

56%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

  • GL
    GLOBAL LINKS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +14%
  • EM
    EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +28%
  • TN
    THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +250%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARYS SEMINARY & UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • FU
    FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Shady Side Academy

Shady side academy offers an exceptional pre-k through twelfth grade academic and balanced educational experience by challenging each student to realize his or her potential in a stimulating and nurturing environment.

Education
2
Girlstown Foundation

To improve the quality of life for children and families.

Human Services
3
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
4
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
5
Angels Place Inc

The mission of Angels Place, Inc. is to provide exceptional family support and quality early childhood education to help parents in need and their children become lifelong learners and create a brighter future.

6
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…

Housing & Shelter
7
Heights Philadelphia

Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…

Education
8
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Washington

Our mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships, changing their lived for the better, forever. our vision is that all children achieve success in…

9
Girls Inc of Greater Pittsburgh

Girls inc of greater pittsburgh empowers girls to imagine a broader future through a curriculum grounded on female role models delivered by college women mentors, who are themselves mentored by professional women.

Human Services
10
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
11
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
12
Saint James School

St. james school is a faith-based philadelphia middle school in the episcopal tradition, committed to educating students from an under-resourced neighborhood within a nurturing environment. the school is a community that provides a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Ignites Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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

10 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. 10 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $1,150,000 · OtherCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INCTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE — $380,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTELITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR — $320,000 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOROAKLAND CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $185,000 · OtherOAKLAND CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INCIndividual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH — $115,000 · OtherDIOCESIS DE SALTILLO AR — $110,000 · Other+5 more — $122,000 · OtherEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $185,000 · EducationEXTRA MILE EDUCA…THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $185,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD…TIDELINES INSTITUTE — $178,000 · EducationTIDELINES INSTIT…GLOBAL LINKS — $300,000 · InternationalGLOBAL LINK…Save The Children Federation Inc — $75,000 · InternationalSave The Ch…Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc — $185,000 · Crime & LegalLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $115,000 · Human ServicesHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc — $75,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,532,000Education$548,000International$375,000Crime & Legal$185,000Human Services$115,000Housing & Shelter$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR — $320,000 over 8y, 67% of budgetGLOBAL LINKS — $300,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $185,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc — $185,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTIDELINES INSTITUTE — $178,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $115,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH — $115,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc — $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR
  • Who funds GLOBAL LINKS
  • Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc
  • Who funds TIDELINES INSTITUTE
  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Equitrans Midstream FoundationPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equitrans Midstream Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Federated Investors Foundation Inc · Massey Charitable Trust · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Upmc Group · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Millbury Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Millbury Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Millbury Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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