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Millrace 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.

$252k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$263kHuman Services$78kHealth$68kCommunity Improvement$64kReligion$60kYouth Development$55kRecreation & Sports$40kPhilanthropy$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN DAF XX509$58,973
FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$25,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$25,000
THE HILL SCHOOL$17,500
FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MED CTR$15,000
LOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
LIFE CAMP$10,000
DEVILS YOUTH FOUNDATION$10,000
ST SIMON BY THE SEA CHURCH$10,000
KENT PLACE SCHOOL$10,000
THE DECENCY FOUNDATION$5,000
PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE$5,000
ST JOHNS NURSERY SCHOOL$5,000
SAVE BARNEGAT BAY$5,000
FAR HILLS RACE MEETING ASSOCIATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIFE CAMP: $55k → 4%LIFE CAMP: $10k → 4%LIFE CAMP: $10k → 4%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

IL
NY
IA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
DC
FL
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.
$620k · 21 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$620k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+82%

Still filing today

81%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • LC
    LIFE CAMP INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +12%
  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +46%
  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $43k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MF
    MIDLAND FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +82%
  • JP
    JFUNDISHE - PROJECT ABLE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • LP
    LAMINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

1
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
2
Millbrook School

In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.

Education
3
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
4
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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5
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
12
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Far Hills Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is R&C Donovan Family Foundation Inc. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 34 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
13/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN DAF XX509: $91,473 · OtherBROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN DAF XX509EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONST SIMON BY THE SEA CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherST SIMON BY THE SEA CHURCHBAY HEAD YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherMANTOLOKING YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherMane Stream Inc: $12,500 · Other+12 more: $63,000 · Other+12 moreFAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $65,000 · EducationFAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLTHE HILL SCHOOL: $42,500 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOLKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationKENT PLACE SCHOOLTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION: $17,500 · EducationTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATI…PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $15,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INCBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationCornell University: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationLIFE CAMP INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesLIFE CAMP IN…Foundation for Morristown Medical Center: $50,000 · HealthLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,200 · PhilanthropyR&C DONOVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropySAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc: $5,500 · EnvironmentDEVILS YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$301,973Education$200,000Human Services$75,000Health$50,000Philanthropy$35,200Environment$20,500Arts & Culture$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIFE CAMP INC: $75,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,200 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEVILS YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBAY HEAD YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMANTOLOKING YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMane Stream Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFAR HILLS RACE MEETING ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DECENCY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetMIDLAND FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetR&C DONOVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMIDLAND SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNCGA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …The Sumner Family Fou…The Fournier Family F…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Ayco Charitable F…The Sudler FoundationThe Tyler FoundationThe McJ Amelior Found…Verizon FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Sumner Family Foundation Inc · The Fournier Family Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Sudler Foundation · The Tyler Foundation · The McJ Amelior Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Millrace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Millrace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Life Camp Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Millrace Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Millrace 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 34 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home