How much does Millstone Fund give?

Millstone Fund reported 95 grants totaling $7,020,041 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 80 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Millstone Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are Millstone Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Beech Acres ($850k), Santa Maria Community Services Inc ($610k), Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ($600k).

Does Millstone Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Millstone Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Millstone Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, John a Schroth Family Char Tr, Charles H Dater Foundation Inc.

Foundation Dossiers

Ohio · Private foundation

Millstone Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 95
Grants FY2025: 80
Organizations funded FY2024: 75%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $35,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 80; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $235M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Millstone Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	91	$6.8M	66%
FY2024	80	$5.9M	75%
FY2023	40	$2.5M	78%
FY2022	15	$300k	93%
FY2021	12	$195k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$5.7MHealth$3.1MArts & Culture$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.2MEducation$785kPhilanthropy$683kFood & Nutrition$674kCrime & Legal$650kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Beech Acres	$850,000	3	3%
Santa Maria Community Services Inc	$610,000	3	8%
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc	$600,000	2	1%
The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio	$520,000	3	1%
Talbert House	$500,000	1	1%
Art Opportunities Inc	$500,000	1	9%
Citylink Center	$500,000	1	n/a
Women Helping Women	$450,000	3	2%
ProKids	$400,000	2	2%
Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc	$350,000	3	2%

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All grantees of Millstone Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Beech Acres	$850,000	3	3%
Santa Maria Community Services Inc	$610,000	3	8%
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc	$600,000	2	1%
The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio	$520,000	3	1%
Talbert House	$500,000	1	1%
Art Opportunities Inc	$500,000	1	9%
Citylink Center	$500,000	1	n/a
Women Helping Women	$450,000	3	2%
ProKids	$400,000	2	2%
Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc	$350,000	3	2%
Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky	$300,000	1	5%
Springer School and Center	$300,000	2	2%
The Crossroads Center	$300,000	1	4%
The Health Collaborative	$283,000	1	n/a
Episcopal Retirement Services	$270,000	2	1%
Inter Parish Ministry Inc	$250,000	2	3%
Glad House Inc	$250,000	3	10%
Addiction Services Council	$250,000	1	n/a
MindPeace Cincinnati	$250,000	3	21%
Great Parks Forever	$250,000	1	7%
Valley Interfaith Community Resource Center	$250,000	1	16%
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati	$200,000	1	1%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation	$197,500	3	0%
Focus on Youth Inc	$165,000	3	2%
Northern Kentucky Childrens Law Center Inc	$150,000	2	7%
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio	$150,000	2	1%
Society of St Vincent de Paul Council of Northern Kentucky	$150,000	1	1%
Last Mile Food Rescue	$140,000	2	1%
Clifton Cultural Arts Center	$139,000	3	8%
Children's Hospital Medical Center	$130,000	2	0%
Stepping Stones Inc	$123,085	1	2%
Bethany House Services Inc	$122,000	3	0%
Every Child Succeeds	$120,000	2	1%
Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc	$115,041	3	0%
Cincinnati Museum Association	$108,668	3	0%
Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc	$100,000	1	5%
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati	$100,000	1	1%
Corporation for Findlay Market	$100,000	1	2%
Mental Health America of Nky & Sw Oh	$85,000	1	2%
Hearing Speech and Deaf Center of Grea	$80,000	2	2%
Upspring	$80,000	2	6%
Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Activities Beyond the Classroom	$75,000	2	1%
The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc	$65,000	3	0%
La Soupe Inc	$60,000	2	1%
Ispace Inc	$55,000	2	4%
Ohio Valley Voices	$55,000	2	1%
Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc	$50,000	1	1%
The Mary Magdalen Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Mortar Cincinnati	$50,000	1	n/a
Sew Valley	$50,000	1	n/a
Axis Teen Centers	$50,000	1	10%
Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc	$50,000	1	5%
Pro Seniors Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Tender Mercies Inc	$50,000	1	1%
People Working Cooperatively Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Center for Addiction Treatment F/K/A the Center for Chemical Addictions	$50,000	1	1%
Lighthouse Youth Services	$50,000	1	0%
Freestore Foodbank Inc	$50,000	3	0%
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park	$50,000	3	0%
Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired	$50,000	1	n/a
American Legacy Theatre	$50,000	1	7%
City Gospel Mission and Affiliates	$50,000	2	0%
Health Care Access Now	$50,000	1	3%
Onecity for Recovery Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Diocesan Catholic Children's Home Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Found Village	$50,000	1	3%
Learning Grove Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Childhood Food Solutions	$46,000	1	11%
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services	$45,000	2	0%
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area	$45,000	1	n/a
New Life Furniture Bank	$45,000	2	1%
Healthy Moms & Babes Inc	$45,000	1	n/a
Community Matters Cincinnati Inc	$40,000	1	2%
Epilepsy Alliance Ohio	$40,000	1	1%
Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc	$35,000	1	2%
Grant US Hope Inc	$35,000	2	2%
On Our Way Home Inc	$35,000	1	n/a
Samaritan Car Care Clinic	$35,000	2	2%
Fernside Inc a Center for Grieving Children	$35,000	1	5%
Price Hill Will	$35,000	1	n/a
Joseph House Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired	$30,000	1	0%
The Dragonfly Foundation	$30,000	1	1%
Know Theatre of Cincinnati	$30,000	2	3%
The Literacy Lab	$30,000	1	0%
Bloc Ministries Inc	$30,000	1	1%
Forever Kings Inc	$30,000	1	4%
Art Academy of Cincinnati	$25,000	2	0%
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Guiding Light Mentoring	$25,000	2	4%
Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Hamilton Living Water Ministry Inc	$25,000	1	11%
Cancer Family Care Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Crayons and Beyond Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Madisonville Education and Assistance Center Inc	$25,000	1	7%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati Inc	$25,000	1	1%
The First Step Home Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts	$25,000	1	n/a
Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition	$25,000	1	11%
Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Ikron Corporation	$25,000	1	0%
RefugeeConnect	$25,000	1	4%
Over the Rhine Community Housing	$25,000	1	n/a
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative	$25,000	1	1%
Taft Museum of Art	$25,000	1	n/a
Cincinnati Nature Center	$25,000	1	0%
Adventure Crew	$25,000	1	3%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati	$25,000	1	0%
Junior Achievement of Oki Partners	$25,000	1	2%
Dress for Success Cincinnati	$25,000	1	n/a
Your Store of the Queen City	$23,500	1	6%
Cincinnati Urban Promise Inc	$20,000	1	2%
The Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center	$20,000	1	1%
The Cincinnati Eye Institute Foundation	$20,000	1	2%
Cincinnati Arts Association	$20,000	1	n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati	$20,000	1	0%
Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati	$20,000	1	1%
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra	$20,000	1	0%
INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati	$20,000	2	1%
Wordplay Cincy	$20,000	1	7%
Elderly Persons in Community Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company	$20,000	1	1%
Wesley Education Center for Children and Families	$20,000	1	2%
East End Adult Education Center	$20,000	1	10%
Square1 Inc	$20,000	1	11%
Changinggears Inc	$20,000	1	2%
North Fairmount Community Center	$20,000	1	3%
Cincinnati Observatory Center	$20,000	1	n/a
Envision Children	$20,000	1	3%
Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati Dba Queen City Book Bank	$20,000	1	2%
Wave Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County Inc	$15,000	1	2%
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy	$15,000	1	2%
Visionaries and Voices	$15,000	1	1%
Pones Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Love N Action CDC	$15,000	1	7%
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education	$15,000	1	0%
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati	$15,000	1	1%
Safe Haven Farms Inc	$15,000	1	2%
New Leaf Kitchen	$10,000	1	5%
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra	$10,000	1	1%
Coverd Greater Cincinnati	$10,000	1	n/a
Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati	$10,000	1	1%
The Contemporary Arts Center	$10,000	1	0%
Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio	$10,000	1	0%
Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House	$7,500	1	3%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Millstone Fund supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 129.

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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.

Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr FoundationOH170.9× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Louise Taft Semple 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.

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About Millstone Fund

How much does Millstone Fund give?: Millstone Fund reported 95 grants totaling $7,020,041 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 80 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Millstone Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Millstone Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Beech Acres ($850k), Santa Maria Community Services Inc ($610k), Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ($600k).
Does Millstone Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Millstone Fund accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Millstone Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, John a Schroth Family Char Tr, Charles H Dater Foundation Inc.
Where is Millstone Fund based?: Millstone Fund is based in OH.