· Private foundation
Mills Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Mills Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greene County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Mills Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $48k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k11 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYBREAK | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL NEEDS | $6,840 |
| ONE BISTRO INC (XENIA) | $6,789 |
| DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| DOWNTOWN MIAMISBURG INC | $5,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES - GREATER MIAMI VALLEY | $5,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $3,500 |
| MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GRANDVIEW FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PINK RIBBON GIRLS | $1,000 |
| FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| ARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $694k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ININTERNATIONAL NEEDS2× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +37%
- ACARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +30%
- PRPINK RIBBON GOOD INC3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +438%
Funded once
- PTPlaza Theatre Associationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +70%
- NSNational Society to Prevent BlindnessOhio Affiliateone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -14%
- AFAGAPE FOR YOUTH INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The hospice of miami county, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards.…
Provide home or nursing home care for terminally ill patients and their families. provided education & support to fayette county and surrounding communities about qualify of life issues.
The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
We will improve the health of the communities we serve with others who share our commitment to provide high-quality, cost-competitive healthcare services.
The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.
Ohio's hospice foundation is a supportive foundation of its sole member, ohio's hospice inc. and its supported organizations. the foundation provides counsel and assistance for ohio's hospice and its supported organizations by helping to…
Ronald mcdonald house charities of dayton's mission is to provide community, comfort, and hope to families of seriously ill children.
Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…
To provide quality home health services to infants, children, and young adults. the care provided will be coordinated, comprehensive, and family centered to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the children and their…
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
See schedule oto provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. the organization is dedicated to living our mission and keeping…
To reduce cancer incidence and mortality through improved treatment and prevention by offering national, state-of-the-art cancer research to local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dayton Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Miamisburg Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 28 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HOSPICE OF DAYTON INC ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds ONE BISTRO INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN MIAMISBURG INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Plaza Theatre Association ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Society to Prevent BlindnessOhio Affiliate ↗
- Who funds AGAPE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Grandview Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Mathile Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · WPCU Sunshine Community Fund · Levin Family Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · The Fred and Alice Wallace Charitable Memorial Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · The Berry Family Foundation
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 Mills Family Foundation 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.
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.
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