· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SMART - START MAKING A READER TODAY | $10,000 |
| CHRISTMAS FAMILY ADOPTION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER MINSTRY | $10,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 29 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Millwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Millwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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