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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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$62kInternational$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kFood & Nutrition$14kYouth Development$6kHousing & Shelter$3kCrime & Legal$3kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$680k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
International Justice Mission$2,000
Samaritans Purse$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
World Bicycle Relief$2,000
Central Oregon Veterans Outreach$1,000
Troop 101$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Saving Grace: $500 → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
OR
OH
CA
MO
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Mills Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Mills Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43k · 10 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$43k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+5%

Still filing today

70%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterReligionCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +83%
  • MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +16%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • DS
    DESERT SONG COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • DS
    Desert Song Church
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • SA
    Salvation Army Disaster Relief
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
2
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
5
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
6
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

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7
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Bread of Life Mission

Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.

Human Services
9
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
10
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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11
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
12
World Christian Broadcasting Corporation

World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is World Bicycle Relief Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DESERT SONG COMMUNITY CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherDESERT SONG COMMUNITY CHURCHDesert Song Church: $5,000 · OtherSalvation Army Disaster Relief: $5,000 · OtherBusiness Wildfire Relief Fund: $5,000 · OtherSantiam Canyon Wildfire Relief: $5,000 · Other+18 more: $24,450 · Other+18 moreCONVOY OF HOPE: $9,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPEWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITC…MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $3,500 · InternationalMEDICAL TEAMS INTE…WORLD VISION INC: $2,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $2,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUST…+1 more: $500 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $17,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S P…GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $3,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $2,500 · Crime & LegalBRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentLA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $1,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GIVING PLATE: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$94,450International$24,500Religion$17,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000Crime & Legal$2,500Youth Development$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,500

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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAstoria Rescue Mission: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANNON BEACH LIBRARY: $1,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVING GRACE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING PLATE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESCHUTES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Oregon Community …First Interstate Banc…United Way of Deschut…The Anjulicia Foundat…St Charles Health Sys…Maybelle Clark Macdon…The Roundhouse Founda…The Autzen FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · United Way of Deschutes County · The Anjulicia Foundation · St Charles Health System Inc · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Central Oregon Veteran & Community Outreach Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Saving Grace: 48% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • Deschutes Public Library Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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