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Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation at a glance

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Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.5MYouth Development$1.3MFood & Nutrition$462kEnvironment$369kHuman Services$161kHealth$88kEducation$74kReligion$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS$500,000
GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION$250,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY$250,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY$100,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$100,000
GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY$75,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS$25,000
HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC$25,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY$25,000
MINNESOTA LAND TRUST$25,000
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA$15,000
EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$13,000
EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$12,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $120k → 14%HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $20k → 10%CONSERVATION FUND: $75k → 7%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $120k → 14%EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $13k → 15%CONSERVATION FUND: $25k → 7%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $100k → 14%EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $12k → 15%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $100k → 14%EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $12k → 15%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $20k → 14%EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $12k → 15%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $50k → 14%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $25k → 14%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $25k → 14%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $15k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $100k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $75k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $75k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $30k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $26k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $25k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $1.0M → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $500k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $500k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $350k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $288k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $150k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $135k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $125k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $100k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $100k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $100k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $65k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $25k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $25k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $25k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $17k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $14k → 11%GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 11%GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $250k → 11%GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA: $25k → 11%MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA: $15k → 11%MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA: $15k → 11%MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA: $15k → 11%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
CT
CA
NE
VA
MS
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 69%.

Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 46 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
30

Total granted

$7.9M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+26%

Still filing today

72%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • MS
    MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    5× · 2018–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +27%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +511%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    5× · 2018–2024 · $460k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMPASSION & CHOICESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +40%
  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +78%
  • AH
    AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
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.

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Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
9
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the most unlike its peers is Jupiter Island Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 83 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
37/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $3,543,375 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTSGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $1,777,300 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION+19 more: $175,700 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $1,296,300 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB …SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $460,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $1,500 · Food & NutritionMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $116,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Environment+6 more: $16,120 · EnvironmentINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · OtherMALTZ JUPITER THEATER: $30,000 · OtherCHRIST MEMORIAL CHAPEL: $26,500 · OtherROBIN'S BAY PRIMARY SCHOOL: $11,776 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 · OtherJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $40,000 · OtherCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $12,500 · Other+30 more: $54,801 · OtherHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $105,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $17,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,750 · PhilanthropyPROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationHOPE FARM SCHOOL: $14,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $12,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $6,000 · Education+3 more: $4,400 · Education
Arts & Culture$5,496,375Youth Development$1,296,300Food & Nutrition$461,500Environment$302,120Other$275,577Philanthropy$124,250Education$76,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $3,543,375 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $1,777,300 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $1,296,300 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $460,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $116,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $72,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $24,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF DANCE: $17,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetHOPE FARM SCHOOL: $14,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHighpoint Center for Printmaking: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UFFIZI GALLERY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $1,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVOCALESSENCE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,200 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC: $800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILKWEED EDITIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Legatus FoundationColket Family Foundat…Longview FoundationHrk FoundationThe David and Elizabe…Donald Grant & Ann Ma…St Clair Charitable T…CMB FoundationThe Head Family Found…Ethel D Colket Founda…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN26.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Legatus Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Longview Foundation · Hrk Foundation · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · Donald Grant & Ann Martin Calder Foundat · St Clair Charitable Trust · CMB Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation 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 83 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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