South Carolina · Private foundation
Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 138
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,007,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 138
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $884k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $1.9M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 138 | $2.2M | 56% |
| FY2023 | 78 | $2.1M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $1.3M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $838k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Recycling Partnership Inc | $2,000,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Converse University | $504,514 | 4 | 1% |
| United Way of the Piedmont Inc | $413,575 | 4 | 2% |
| Onespartanburg Inc Foundation | $400,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Chapman Cultural Center Inc | $370,100 | 4 | 5% |
| Spartanburg Academic Movement | $250,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Partners for Active Living | $200,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Northside Development Corporation | $180,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Charles Lea Center Foundation Inc | $160,510 | 4 | 11% |
| Onespartanburg Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 172 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 152 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Spartanburg County Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · The Jolley Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · Wr & Eh Floyd Foundation · Balmer Foundation · Gibbs Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation
- How much does Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation give?
- Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $2,770,618 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 138 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Recycling Partnership Inc ($2.0M), Converse University ($505k), United Way of the Piedmont Inc ($414k).
- Does Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spartanburg County Foundation, Arkwright Foundation, J M Smith Foundation.
- Where is Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation based?
- Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation is based in SC.
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