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ROBERT & BETHANY MILLARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION C/O Graypoint LLC

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$254k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$4.8MArts & Culture$669kSocial Science$579kInternational$425kEnvironment$296kScience & Tech$205kHealth$102kRecreation & Sports$75kPhilanthropy$66kOther$3.4M
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $682k
  • $250k+2 grants · $507k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NY Botanical Garden$253,515
Council on Foreign Relations$253,370
Kaufman Center$231,575
American Association of Advancement$100,000
National Tropical Botanical Garden$100,000
Kaufman Center$100,000
Primary Care Transformation Fund$100,000
Wily Network$50,000
Council on Foreign Relations$25,750
Miami Waterkeeper$25,000
Grand Central Atelier$25,000
Feltsman Piano Foundation$25,000
ISLAND COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER$15,000
Central Park Conservatory$10,000
New Vision for Public Schools$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Gallop NYC: $5k → 20%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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NH
MT
IL
NY
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OR
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NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
HI
AL
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 44 repeat orgs$903k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
67

Total granted

$6.6M
$719k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+15%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $900k · revenue +44%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $406k · revenue +5%
  • GC
    GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FUNDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • AA
    American Association for the Advancement of Sci
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • GC
    GMTO CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
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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5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
11
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Visions for Public Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%85%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/81
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,484

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
54/80
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $3,000,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $900,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $705,266 · EducationFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC+7 more — $156,000 · EducationKAUFMAN CENTER — $2,022,875 · OtherKAUFMAN CENTERNY Botanical Garden — $324,715 · OtherNY Botanical GardenNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIOWNYC — $175,000 · Other+74 more — $1,102,553 · Other+74 moreGRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC — $160,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $150,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History — $128,390 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $62,924 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $43,972 · Arts & CultureFROM THE TOP INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureVLADIMIR AND HAEWON FELTSMAN PIANO VLADIMIR & HAEWON FELTSMAN PIANO FO — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $58,959 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $578,530 · Social ScienceCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $405,620 · International+3 more — $19,500 · InternationalNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — $160,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $75,000 · EnvironmentBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $10,000 · Environment+5 more — $15,730 · EnvironmentGMTO CORPORATION — $100,000 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $100,000 · Science & Tech+1 more — $5,000 · Science & Tech
Education$4,761,266Other$3,625,143Arts & Culture$669,245Social Science$578,530International$425,120Environment$295,730Science & Tech$205,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $3,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $900,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $705,266 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $578,530 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $405,620 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC — $160,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — $160,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $128,390 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGMTO CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $62,924 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $43,972 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC — $41,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFROM THE TOP INC — $35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $34,860 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISLANDS COMMUNITY MEDICAL SERVICES — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVLADIMIR AND HAEWON FELTSMAN PIANO VLADIMIR & HAEWON FELTSMAN PIANO FO — $30,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $16,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $10,225 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Perry Street Theatre Company Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBRAZIL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $6,760 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $5,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $5,125 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $5,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC — $5,070 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncThe Ayco Charitable F…The Ford FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Boston Foundation IncThe Annenberg Foundat…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The William & Flora H…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY23.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The William & Flora Hewlett 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 ROBERT & BETHANY MILLARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION C/O Graypoint LLC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to ROBERT & BETHANY MILLARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION C/O Graypoint LLC?

Find your warmest path to ROBERT & BETHANY MILLARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION C/O Graypoint LLC 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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