· Private foundation
Mills Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta | $56,000 |
| DR Greenway Land Trust Inc | $56,000 |
| Manomet Conservation Services | $50,000 |
| Epilepsy Foundation | $18,000 |
| Smith College | $6,000 |
| OneTree Planted | $6,000 |
| Captains for Clean Water | $3,000 |
| Center for New American Security | $3,000 |
| Camp Ronald McDonald for Fun Times | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| St Jude's Hospital | $3,000 |
| Chatham House Inc | $3,000 |
| Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | $3,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of Am | $3,000 |
| Cradles to Crayons | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
63 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS7× · 2017–2023 · $321k · revenue +2%- MSMILLBROOK SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +46%
- CFCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- STSAVE THE CHILDREN - UKRAINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2022 · $57k
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $49k · revenue +40%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
98 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. 98 of the 186 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MORVEN INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KEVIN BABINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
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: Henagan Foundation Inc · Pheasant Hill Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Snyder Family Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mills Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mills Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc: 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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