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Millwood 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER | $36,000 |
| PORTERLEATH | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF S AZ | $25,000 |
| NEW AVENUES YOUTH | $25,000 |
| ROSE HAVEN | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TN & NORTH MS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CHRISTMAS FAMILY ADOPTION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER MINSTRY | $10,000 |
| SMART - START MAKING A READER TODAY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TMTOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $141k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TN & NORTH MS5× · 2021–2025 · $125k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF S AZ4× · 2021–2024 · $86k
Funded once
- DDDOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITYone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $46k
- MAMEMPHIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERIgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +70%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To relieve poverty-related hunger by distributing donated and purchased food and grocery products through a network of member churches and nonprofit organizations; to provide nutrition education to the needy; and to emphasize advocacy and…
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…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.
Community alliance for the homeless unites partners and coordinates a comprehensive response system to end homelessness in memphis and shelby county.
The food bank operates as a clearing house for the collecting, sorting, storing and distribution of edible food to qualified agencies; who in turn pass the food along to alabama's "food insecure" citizens.
The mission of montogomery county food bank is "uniting the community" to fight hunger. the food bank is a nonprofit hunger relief organization that receives nutritious food and distributes to hungry children, seniors, veterans and…
Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…
Memphis union mission exists to glorify god and make disciples of jesus christ by ministering to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men and women who are homeless or destitute.
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-South Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Collage Dance Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERI ↗
- Who funds COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS FAMILY ADOPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds LATINO MEMPHIS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Millwood Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Millwood Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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