Illinois · Private foundation
Mills Family Charitable 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.
- $581k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $409k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Mills Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $538k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $497k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $238k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $436k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $475k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $446k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $513k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $585k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center | $1,611,600 | 6 | 9% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $444,000 | 8 | 0% |
| John Howard Association | $210,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Lake Forest College | $205,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Digestive Health Foundation | $150,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $128,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $99,000 | 5 | 0% |
| College Bound Opportunities | $90,100 | 5 | 2% |
| Northwestern University | $87,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Citizenship Counts | $70,000 | 4 | 33% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($810k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mills Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Vivo Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Lake County Community Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · AbbVie Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · Eleven Eleven Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Mills Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Mills Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Mills Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Mills Family Charitable Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $581,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mills Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (36%), Philanthropy (18%), Education (9%).
- Who are Mills Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center ($1.6M), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($444k), John Howard Association ($210k).
- Does Mills Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mills Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mills Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Mills Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Mills Family Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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