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Millrace Foundation Charitable Trust

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.

$111k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Health$247kEducation$153kHuman Services$96kHousing & Shelter$82kReligion$46kScience & Tech$43kCrime & Legal$35kEmployment$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM$14,000
SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY$14,000
ARDELLA'S HOUSE INC$14,000
THE CITY SCHOOL$14,000
HISTORIC FAIRHILL INC$13,000
WEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN$11,000
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY$11,000
THE SIMPLE WAY$10,000
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%ARDELLA'S HOUSE INC: $14k → 22%ARDELLA'S HOUSE INC: $11k → 22%ARDELLA'S HOUSE INC: $10k → 22%THE SIMPLE WAY: $11k → 22%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS: $10k → 6%THE SIMPLE WAY: $10k → 22%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS: $10k → 6%THE SIMPLE WAY: $10k → 22%THE SIMPLE WAY: $10k → 22%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS: $10k → 6%THE SIMPLE WAY: $10k → 22%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS: $5k → 6%CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS: $5k → 6%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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$601k · 12 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$601k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+39%

Still filing today

92%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionReligionEmploymentOther

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

  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +68%
  • TC
    The City School
    9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +267%
  • CV
    COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +39%
  • SS
    SUNDAY SUPPERS
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -91%
  • CC
    CHESTER CTY FD FOR WOMEN
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

1
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Together for West Philadelphia

Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.

Unclassified
3
Family Promise of Philadelphia

To end family homelessness through direct aid, direct services, and advocacy.

Human Services
4
Newark Community Health Centers Inc

The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…

Health
5
Project Home

The mission of the project home community is to empower adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, to alleviate the underlying causes of poverty, and to enable all of us to attain our fullest potential…

Human Services
6
Small Things Inc

Small Things works with local partners and community leaders to alleviate poverty by improving food security and collaborating to address other community needs.

7
New Kensington Community Development Corp

NKCDC advances social equity and economic empowerment by nurturing and creating opportunities for neighbors to live in, and actively shape, their neighborhoods of choice. (See Schedule O)

8
Build Philly Now

Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.

9
Simple Homes Fuller Center for Housing

creating dignified, affordable housing for low-income families in Philadelphia

10
Fair Food

Fair food is dedicated to bringing locally grown food to the marketplace and to promoting a humane, sustainable agriculture system for the greater philadelphia region

11
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
12
IMPACT100 Philadelphia Inc

Impact100 philadelphia engages women in collectively funding high-impact grants that address unmet needs in the philadelphia region and raise the profile of smaller nonprofit organizations.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historic Fair Hill 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

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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $125,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND B…COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $75,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINEMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $46,500 · HealthMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM …The City School — $80,500 · OtherThe City SchoolWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $72,500 · OtherWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR C…THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY — $42,500 · OtherTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES …+4 more — $17,000 · Other+4 moreTHE SIMPLE WAY — $50,500 · Human ServicesTHE SIMPLE WAYTHE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE FUND FOR WOMEN …ARDELLA'S HOUSE INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesARDELLA'S HOUSE INCSAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $81,500 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HARBOR …HISTORIC FAIR HILL INC — $45,500 · ReligionNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT — $20,500 · EmploymentSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$247,000Other$212,500Human Services$125,500Housing & Shelter$81,500Religion$45,500Employment$20,500Food & Nutrition$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $81,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetThe City School — $80,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $75,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $72,500 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetTHE SIMPLE WAY — $50,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $46,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC — $45,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTHE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS — $40,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetARDELLA'S HOUSE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT — $20,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC
  • Who funds The City School
  • Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
  • Who funds WEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds THE SIMPLE WAY
  • Who funds MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC
  • Who funds HISTORIC FAIR HILL INC
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
  • Who funds ARDELLA'S HOUSE INC
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT
  • Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM
  • Who funds SUNDAY SUPPERS

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.

The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation IncPA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · The Allen Hilles Fund · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The Barra Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Millrace Foundation Charitable Trust 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Millrace Foundation Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Millrace Foundation Charitable Trust 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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