Illinois · Private foundation
Mills Family 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.
- $120k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $902k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Mills Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 6 | $120k | 83% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $31k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $148k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $445k | 85% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $1.6M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $155k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $2.7M | 64% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $2,150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwestern Memorial HealthCare | $1,400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lake Forest Academy | $400,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Misericordia Home | $275,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Starkey Foundation Inc | $260,000 | 3 | 45% |
| Starkey Hearing Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Digestive Health Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Northwestern University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($810k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mills Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Baird Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baxter International Foundation
How this is measured
About Mills Family Foundation
- How much does Mills Family Foundation give?
- Mills Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mills Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Health (18%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Mills Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cornell University ($2.1M), Northwestern Memorial HealthCare ($1.4M), Vanderbilt University ($1.0M).
- Does Mills Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mills Family 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation, Circle of Service Foundation.
- Where is Mills Family Foundation based?
- Mills Family Foundation is based in IL.
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