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Mills Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$48k
Granted FY2019
12
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

7
’17
6
’18
10
’19
2
’20
2
’21
0
’22
1
’23
2
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$696kHuman Services$47kFood & Nutrition$29kInternational$14kCommunity Improvement$10kHousing & Shelter$10kPhilanthropy$7kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2019 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k11 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$302k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAYBREAK$10,000
INTERNATIONAL NEEDS$6,840
ONE BISTRO INC (XENIA)$6,789
DOWNTOWN MIAMISBURG INC$5,000
DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
MARCH OF DIMES - GREATER MIAMI VALLEY$5,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$3,500
MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,000
ARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$1,000
GRANDVIEW FOUNDATION$1,000
PINK RIBBON GIRLS$1,000
FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AGAPE FOR YOUTH: $1k → 14%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $200 → 9%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $10k → 14%DAYBREAK: $10k → 14%DAYBREAK: $10k → 14%DAYBREAK: $10k → 14%HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $653k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 7 repeat orgs$728k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$89k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+70%

Still filing today

71%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IN
    INTERNATIONAL NEEDS
    2× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +37%
  • AC
    ARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +30%
  • PR
    PINK RIBBON GOOD INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +438%

Funded once

  • PT
    Plaza Theatre Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +70%
  • KS
    KETTERING SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • NS
    National Society to Prevent BlindnessOhio Affiliate
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -14%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hospice of Miami County Inc

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.…

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2
Hospice of Fayette County Inc

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.

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3
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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4
Good Samaritan Hospital

We will improve the health of the communities we serve with others who share our commitment to provide high-quality, cost-competitive healthcare services.

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5
Lifecare Hospice

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.

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6
Ohio's Hospice Foundation

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…

Health
7
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Dayton

Ronald mcdonald house charities of dayton's mission is to provide community, comfort, and hope to families of seriously ill children.

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8
Hospice of Central Ohio

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…

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9
Children's Home Care of Dayton

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…

Health
10
Highmark Health

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.

Health
11
Ohio Living Holdings

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…

Human Services
12
Dayton Clinical Oncology Program Inc

To reduce cancer incidence and mortality through improved treatment and prevention by offering national, state-of-the-art cancer research to local communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dayton Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $653,241 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF DAYTON INCDAYBREAK INC: $30,000 · Human Services+3 more: $11,200 · Human ServicesONE BISTRO INC (XENIA): $15,789 · OtherINTERNATIONAL NEEDS: $13,680 · OtherDOWNTOWN MIAMISBURG INC: $10,000 · OtherMICHAEL'S HOUSE: $10,000 · OtherMARCH OF DIMES - GREATER MIAMI VALLEY: $5,000 · OtherARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $3,500 · Other+7 more: $7,276 · OtherBRIGID'S PATH INC: $25,000 · HealthONE BISTRO INC: $13,000 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,500 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $3,000 · HealthMIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthGREENE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyPlaza Theatre Association: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$694,441Other$65,245Health$52,500Philanthropy$7,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $653,241 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDAYBREAK INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGID'S PATH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL NEEDS: $13,680 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE BISTRO INC: $13,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlaza Theatre Association: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTEMIS CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGrandview Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DAYTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAGAPE FOR YOUTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Dayton FoundationDayton Foundation Dep…The United Way of the…Mathile Family Founda…Dayton Foundation Plu…WPCU Sunshine Communi…Levin Family Foundati…Synchrony FoundationThe Fred and Alice Wa…Iddings Benevolent Tr…Virginia W Kettering …The Berry Family Foun…
The Dayton FoundationOH31.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mills Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mills Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mills Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mills Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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