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Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$1.9MEducation$1.4MArts & Culture$1.1MPhilanthropy$990kPublic Safety & Disaster$291kHousing & Shelter$270kHealth$227kCommunity Improvement$171kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $591k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
$2,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY MILLIKEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$1,007,500
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$853,073
THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP$250,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$190,643
ONESPARTANBURG INC FOUNDATION$150,000
NC STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$100,000
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT$50,000
WOFFORD COLLEGE$12,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$6,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$4,000
THE UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT$3,000
CHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS$3,000
UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$3,000
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $51 → 14%THREE DOORS: $488 → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 8%WOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $25k → 16%HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT: $5k → 10%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 15%UPSTATE INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 10%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $10k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $10k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $10k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 88 repeat orgs$637k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

88 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
107

Total granted

$7.8M
$518k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+1%

Still filing today

83%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TR
    THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +15%
  • CONVERSE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $505k · revenue +39%
  • OI
    ONESPARTANBURG INC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue +608%

Funded once

  • OI
    ONESPARTANBURG INC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +4%
  • ME
    MOTHER EMANUEL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -21%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
2
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
3
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
4
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
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Columbia College

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

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
9
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
10
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
11
William Peace University

William peace university is a private four-year university in downtown raleigh, north carolina. the mission of the university is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. rooted in the liberal arts tradition, the…

Education
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North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wofford College; the most unlike its peers is Hub City Writers Project. 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

158 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. 158 of the 209 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
157/158
Grantees still filing
92/158
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONVERSE UNIVERSITY MILLIKEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,507,500 · OtherCONVERSE UNIVERSITY MILLIKEN CENTER FOR THE ART…SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $440,684 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICAUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $413,575 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INCTHE CHARLES LEA CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $160,510 · OtherONESPARTANBURG INC: $150,000 · Other+115 more: $1,361,676 · Other+115 moreTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,000,000 · EnvironmentTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP…+5 more: $125,514 · Environment+5 moreTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $853,073 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVI…ONESPARTANBURG INC FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyONESPARTANBURG INC…Spartanburg County Foundation: $329,000 · PhilanthropySpartanburg County…CONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $504,514 · EducationCONVERSE UN…SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $250,000 · EducationSPARTANBURG…+58 more: $188,467 · Education+58 moreCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $370,100 · Arts & CultureBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $17,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,568 · Arts & CulturePARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING: $200,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $180,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,925 · Community Improvement
Other$4,033,945Environment$2,125,514Philanthropy$1,582,073Education$942,981Arts & Culture$505,668Public Safety & Disaster$200,000Community Improvement$192,925

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,000,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $504,514 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $413,575 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetONESPARTANBURG INC FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $370,100 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $329,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $250,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING: $200,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $180,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CHARLES LEA CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $160,510 over 4y, 11% of budgetONESPARTANBURG INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $90,080 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $89,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG AREA CONSERVANCY INC: $80,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $75,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SPARTANBURG I: $70,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER: $60,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetUPSTATE FOREVER: $55,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMOTHER EMANUEL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE IN: $40,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $37,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHUB CITY ROOTS: $37,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budget864PRIDE: $30,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSouth Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $23,598 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCONESTEE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY: $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM: $17,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $17,407 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $16,670 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SPARTANBURG COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $11,880 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $10,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $10,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetILLUMINATE JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOAPSTONE PRESERVATION ENDOWMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSustain South Carolina Intersection of Commerce and Conservation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Spartanburg County Fo…Arkwright FoundationJ M Smith FoundationMary Black Foundation…South Carolina Christ…Black & Phillips Foun…The Jolley FoundationAnna M Black Charitab…Spartanburg Regional …Wr & Eh Floyd Foundat…Balmer FoundationGibbs Charitable Foun…
Spartanburg County FoundationSC100.2× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Milliken & Company Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 209 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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