How much did MILLIKEN & COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Environment$1.9MEducation$867kPhilanthropy$579kArts & Culture$500kPublic Safety & Disaster$200kHuman Services$139kCommunity Improvement$137kHousing & Shelter$111kCivil Rights$50kOther$2.4M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

christianlagrange

2022

—

2023

museumcatholicmary'sjoseph

2024

hopecancerchildrenhumanebandgreaterstreet

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 141 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k101 grants · $146k
$10k–50k31 grants · $424k
$50k–250k7 grants · $657k
$250k+2 grants · $1.0M

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

CONVERSE UNIVERSITY MILLIKEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$500,000
THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP$500,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$151,231
ONESPARTANBURG$150,000
UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC$110,575
CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC$80,100
WOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK$65,080
PARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING$50,000
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT$50,000
NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$30,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SPARTANBURG$25,000
WOFFORD COLLEGE$23,850
THE CHARLES LEA CENTER FOUNDATION INC$20,510
SPARTANBURG AREA CONSERVANCY INC$20,000
JUMPSTART$20,000

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.7M · 81 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

81 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.7M

$224k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+33%

Still filing today

78%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $884k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

TR
THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +988%
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY
4× · 2021–2024 · $505k · revenue +54%
CC
CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $370k · revenue +32%

Funded once

ND
NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT GROUP
one grant, 2021 · $55k
ME
MOTHER EMANUEL MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +412%
AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF UPSTATE SC
one grant, 2021 · $25k

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.

Southern Wesleyan University

Challenging students to be dedicated scholars and leaders who impact the world for Christ.

Education

Greenville College

To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

North Carolina State University

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education

Medical University of South Carolina

The medical university of south carolina foundation (the "foundation") was incorporated in july 1966 under the laws of south carolina as an educational, charitable, eleemosynary foundation to promote educational, research, clinical, and…

Health

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Union University

Union University provides Christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education

Carolina University

A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah lawrence college is a four-year liberal arts college (continued on schedule o) offering select graduate programs on its main campus in bronxville, ny and 4 undergraduate global studies programs.

Education

Andrews University

Education

Elon University

Elon university's mission is to transform the mind, body, and spirit and encourage freedom of thought and liberty of conscience. the university provides a liberal arts undergraduate curriculum and graduate programs.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Piedmont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/154

the rest of the field

10%

2,921/28,635

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

143 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

142/143

Grantees still filing

113/143

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,652,186Environment$1,875,514Education$867,342Philanthropy$579,000Arts & Culture$500,100Public Safety & Disaster$200,000Human Services$138,619

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

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.

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.

Spartanburg County FoundationSC105.5× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Arkwright Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Central Carolina Community · Balmer Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation

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 organisation MILLIKEN & COMPANY CHARITABLE 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ONESPARTANBURG INC FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 870907020 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ONESPARTANBURG INC FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MILLIKEN & COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

143 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation?

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MILLIKEN & COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

143 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph