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Mills Family Foundation Inc

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.

$409k
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$900kEducation$675kHealth$124kPublic Benefit$99kHuman Services$88kRecreation & Sports$80kAnimals$79kCivil Rights$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k72 grants · $141k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $202k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$1,600
Median grant
17
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY$66,333
RAGIN CAJUN ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$43,000
OUR SAVIOR'S CHURCH$33,000
THE BAYOU CHURCH$25,000
MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE$20,000
NEW LOUISIANA FOUNDATION$19,500
A PREGNANCY CENTER & CLINIC$11,579
DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE$10,000
CONVENTION OF THE STATES FOUNDATION$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MILES PERRET CANCER SERVICES$7,550
AMG INTERNATIONAL$7,200
PRIESTS FOR LIFE$6,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOUGLAS RUNWALK FOR THE CURE: $2k → 18%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 8%MOMS FOR AMERICA: $1k → 14%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $5k → 7%RACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $1k → 8%PREBORN: $500 → 16%LOVE ACADIANA: $3k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 8%MOMS FOR AMERICA: $500 → 14%RACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $10k → 8%PRE-BORN: $2k → 16%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: $5k → 23%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: $4k → 23%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 16%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: $4k → 23%OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER: $7k → 28%OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER: $5k → 28%OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER: $2k → 28%OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER: $1k → 28%HOPE FOR OPELOUSAS: $1k → 28%STAND FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $14k → 14%LARC: $1k → 17%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 14%THE HUB LAFAYETTE-URBAN MINISTRIES: $50 → 17%MADDIE'S FOOTPRINTS: $50 → 17%LOVE ACADIANA: $5k → 17%THE FAMILY TREE: $4k → 17%THE FAMILY TREE: $4k → 17%THE FAMILY TREE: $3k → 17%THE FAMILY TREE: $3k → 17%LOVE ACADIANA: $500 → 17%THE RESCYOU GROUP: $50 → 17%THE FAMILY TREE: $25 → 17%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $5k → 17%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF ACADIANA: $3k → 17%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $2k → 17%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $2k → 17%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $2k → 17%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $25 → 17%DESORMEAUX FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: $1k → 17%DESORMEAUX FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%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

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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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 96 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
132

Total granted

$2.1M
$283k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+24%

Still filing today

53%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionPublic BenefitArts & 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

  • WC
    WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $292k · revenue +52%
  • JH
    JACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $101k · revenue +831%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LUKE BAPTIST CHRUCH
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $16k
  • NF
    NRA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -6%
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
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
2
Lafayette General Foundation Inc

The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…

Health
3
Foundation for Louisiana

Foundation for louisiana is the people's foundation. we expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe,…

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Acadiana Legal Service Corporation

The mission of acadiana legal services corporation is to provide exceptional civil legal services by advocating for fairness, protection, and justice. our vision for the state is for these services to be easy and timely accessible.

Crime & Legal
5
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
6
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
7
Louisiana State Bar Association

The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…

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8
American Civil Liberties Union

To promote advocacy on legislative issues in support of civil rights and liberties. to advance the organization's civil rights and civil liberties agenda in the state of louisiana legislature.

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9
Protect Louisiana Values

Promote family values in louisiana

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10
Louisiana Perinatal Justice Allianc

The purpose and mission of the louisiana perinatal justice alliance is to improve the reproductive care and health outcomes for all louisiana families, to promote evidence-based maternal and infant care, to advocate for parenting families,…

Health
11
Life Choices of North Central Louisiana

See schedule o - mission statement for part i line 1 covers this item

Health
12
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Charlene Richard Foundation. 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

103 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. 103 of the 270 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/103
Grantees still filing
75/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BAYOU CHURCH INC: $306,225 · OtherTHE BAYOU CHURCH INCIndividual grant recipient: $119,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLDESTINY OF FAITH CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $98,554 · OtherDESTINY OF FAITH CHRISTIAN CHURCHMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $75,156 · Other+157 more: $909,891 · Other+157 moreWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $291,741 · EducationWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN A…JACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $101,166 · EducationJACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL …ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $65,200 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN …VERMILLION BEND ACADEMY: $36,780 · EducationVERMILLION BEND ACADEMY+5 more: $31,000 · Education+5 moreFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $24,650 · Human ServicesOPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesLouisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc: $13,803 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY TREE INFORMATION EDUCATION AND COUNSELING CENTER IN: $12,725 · Human ServicesRACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $11,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC: $9,025 · Human ServicesLOVE ACADIANA INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesSparkHope Automotive: $5,000 · Human Services+9 more: $15,750 · Human ServicesACADIANA PREGNANCY CENTER & CLINIC: $62,416 · HealthMILES PERRET CANCER SERVICES: $7,650 · HealthRAGIN CAJUNS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $55,820 · Recreation & SportsLafayette Central Park Inc: $12,804 · Recreation & SportsAMG INTERNATIONAL INC: $44,900 · InternationalCORELUV INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · International+1 more: $1,530 · InternationalCONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA: $29,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $11,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,100 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $2,500 · Public Benefit+1 more: $1,250 · Public Benefit
Other$1,609,026Education$525,887Human Services$114,453Health$70,066Recreation & Sports$68,624International$66,430Public Benefit$47,350

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $291,741 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetJACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $101,166 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $75,156 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $65,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACADIANA PREGNANCY CENTER & CLINIC: $62,416 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetAMG INTERNATIONAL INC: $44,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVERMILLION BEND ACADEMY: $36,780 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetCONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA: $29,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $24,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCORELUV INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW LOUISIANA FOUNDATION: $19,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA FAMILY FORUM INC: $16,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Inc: $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $14,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetLouisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc: $13,803 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLafayette Central Park Inc: $12,804 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INFORMATION EDUCATION AND COUNSELING CENTER IN: $12,725 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROUD LOUISIANA LLC: $12,500 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBRIDGE MINISTRY OF ACADIANA INC: $10,618 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ENDOWMENT FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEWS COMMUNICATIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC: $9,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMILES PERRET CANCER SERVICES: $7,650 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISIANA ACADIANA SCI CHAPTER: $6,100 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAcadiana Outreach Center Inc: $6,043 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEALING HOUSE INC: $6,023 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCampaign for Working Families Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAFAYETTE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACADIAN HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSparkHope Automotive: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR CHURCH: $3,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP AND RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,550 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds ACADIANA PREGNANCY CENTER & CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds AMG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMILLION BEND ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CORELUV INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW LOUISIANA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA FAMILY FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Susan B Anthony List Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Lafayette Central Park Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INFORMATION EDUCATION AND COUNSELING CENTER IN ↗
  • Who funds PROUD LOUISIANA LLC ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH 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.

Community Foundation of AcadianaLA74.2× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Acadiana · The Rucks Family Foundation · Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation · William C Schumacher Family Foundation · Martial F Billeaud Sr Foundation · Pinhook Foundation Inc · Zuschlag Family Foundation · Haynie Family Foundation · Billy & Clara Mosing Foundation · The Scott Foundation · James D Moncus Family Foundation · Lafayette General Health System 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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mills Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Mills Family Foundation Inc 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 270 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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