· Private foundation
Mills Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSE OF VICTORY FUND | $2,500 |
| KENT SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| KENT SCHOOL BOAT CLUB | $1,000 |
| OPACUM LAND TRUST | $500 |
| TABOR ACADEMY | $500 |
| JACOB EDWARDS LIBRARY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $500 |
| ELM STREET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KSKENTFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +29%
- KSKENT SCHOOL2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +12%
- TATABOR ACADEMY3× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- HHHARRINGTON HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TSTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +32%
- WFWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ROWINGone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
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.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
Running a private school.
Revor day school builds an activity-based setting to educate each student for academic excellence and personal integrity in a diverse co-educational community that emphasizes responsibility, stimulates collaboration, and promotes mutual…
Private k-12 day and boarding school for approximately 180 students.
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.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KENTFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE OPACUM LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC THE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Quinebaug Valley Council For The Arts and Humanities Inc ↗
- Who funds TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mills Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mills Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Last Green Valley Inc the Last Green Valley Inc: 72% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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