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Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
141
Grants FY2024still arriving
27
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$1.9MEducation$1.4MArts & Culture$1.1MPhilanthropy$990kPublic Safety & Disaster$291kHousing & Shelter$270kHealth$227kCommunity Improvement$171kOther$0
02FY2024 · 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
27
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP$500,000
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY MILLIKEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$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 COUNTY FOUNDATION$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC$20,000
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 (FY21–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your 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: $500 → 15%UPSTATE INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 10%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

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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CO
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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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 80 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

80 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
38

Total granted

$5.4M
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+12%

Still filing today

84%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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 INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +15%
  • CONVERSE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $505k · revenue +39%
  • CC
    CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $370k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • ME
    MOTHER EMANUEL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS OF UPSTATE SC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCI MATH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

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.

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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
Columbia College

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

Education
6
Wilson College

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

Education
7
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
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
Albright College

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

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
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wofford College and 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.

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

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Lgbtq+ Community SupportUnited Way AffiliatesYmca Youth DevelopmentLocal History MuseumsCommunity College Foundatio…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringAnimal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Food PantriesSchool Parent OrganizationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsDance Arts OrganizationsLocal Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Construc…Environmental Conservation …Developmental Disabilities …Community Arts CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
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 48 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr12%6%5–10yr15%10%10–20yr24%16%20–35yr9%21%35–55yr19%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%5%<5yr12%2%5–10yr15%46%10–20yr24%11%20–35yr9%8%35–55yr19%28%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/170
the rest of the field
12%
3,449/28,619

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.

04the grantee network

154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 154 of the 198 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
153/154
Grantees still filing
88/154
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONVERSE UNIVERSITY MILLIKEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $500,000 · OtherCONVERSE UNIVERSITY MILLIKEN CENTER FOR TH…UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $410,575 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INCSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA — $250,041 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICATHE CHARLES LEA CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $160,510 · OtherTHE CHARLES LEA CENTER FOUNDATION INCONESPARTANBURG INC — $150,000 · OtherONESPARTANBURG INCWOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK — $90,080 · Other+112 more — $1,022,428 · Other+112 moreTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,750,000 · EnvironmentTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC+5 more — $125,514 · Environment+5 moreCONVERSE UNIVERSITY — $504,514 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVE…SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT — $200,000 · EducationSPARTANBURG AC…South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities — $30,000 · Education+58 more — $143,278 · Education+58 moreSpartanburg County Foundation — $329,000 · PhilanthropySpartanbu…ONESPARTANBURG INC FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyONESPARTA…CHAPMAN 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 — $14,296 · 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 — $2,425 · Community Improvement
Other$2,583,634Environment$1,875,514Education$877,792Philanthropy$579,000Arts & Culture$504,396Public Safety & Disaster$200,000Community Improvement$192,425

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 budgetTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,750,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY — $504,514 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $410,575 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC — $370,100 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation — $329,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetONESPARTANBURG INC FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING — $200,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT — $200,000 over 4y, 4.2% 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 budgetSPARTANBURG AREA CONSERVANCY INC — $80,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $76,525 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetHUB CITY ROOTS — $37,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBALLET SPARTANBURG INC — $37,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budget864PRIDE — $30,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT — $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSouth Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE — $20,598 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetJUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY — $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCONESTEE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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 — $16,907 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $16,170 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SPARTANBURG COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSCSDB FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetILLUMINATE JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetMINDS MATTER OF CLEVELAND OHIO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGirlUp GVL — $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWARRIORS ONCE AGAIN — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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 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

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your 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

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 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 198 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines