· Private foundation
Robert Mills 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF MERCER COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL NJ | $5,000 |
| SIERRA HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION | $5,000 |
| CUMAC ECHO INC | $5,000 |
| GREATER LIFE INC | $5,000 |
| BESSIE GREEN COMMUNITY INC | $5,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| CAREGIVER VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL JERSEY | $5,000 |
| BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- GLGREATER LIFE INC5× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +76%
- 4O4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +1%
- IFINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC2× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- SISAMARITAN INN INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -26%
- TATHE ARC OF NEW JERSEY INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +15%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PATERSONone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Nourish.nj provides immediate access to healthy food as the first step toward a stable future. as a center of support, we connect our neighbors to essential community resources and provide direct services to address the root causes of…
To serve the expanding and evolving in-home needs of residents of northern nj by delivering a continuum of care for clients and families through the services of a highly trained caring and compassionate workforce.
Provide temporary shelter and support to working families experiencing homelessness, and a dinner program to address food insecurity in the community.
Homesharing's mission is to create affordable housing solutions by matching those seeking housing with those who need additional income or services to maintain their homes, while fostering independence and dignity.
The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…
To provide food, clothing, household goods and other services to people in need who live in montclair, nj and other neighboring communities in essex county
To identify children's needs through research, policy and legal analysis, to raise awareness of those needs through strategic communications, and to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to enact effective responses.
Family promise of warren county (fpwc) is an independent, self-supporting private non-profit 501(c)(3) agency that has served homeless and low-income families and individuals since july 2008. our mission is to help households achieve…
Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.
Promoting, assisting and supporting the sustainability and growth of casa programs in new jersey. casa programs promote the protection of abused and neglected children by using trained volunteers to advocate for these children in courts…
To assist with the integration of individuals with developmental disabilities into society. to educate the public regarding every individual's right and need for community integration. to promote, establish, and operate community based…
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Sussex County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Team Randy Inc Co Toms River Fitness for Women. 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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
42 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. 42 of the 57 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 GREATER LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds 4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INN INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc ↗
- Who funds Cancer Care Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Axiom REACH Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds CUMACECHO INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds CANCER HOPE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Community Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Health Care Center ↗
- Who funds Sierra House Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Hunterdon County Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds BESSIE GREEN COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
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: Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Scott Carolyn J Char Tua-Main · Ann Earle Talcott Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc · E and S Van Houten Memorial Fund · Columbia Bank Foundation · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · The Hyde and Watson 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 Mills 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 4CS of Passaic County Inc — 92% of income from government
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
- Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc — 38% of income from government
- Family Promise of Sussex County Inc — 32% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Cumacecho Inc — 25% of income from government
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- Children On the Green Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
- Sierra House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Christian Health Care Center — 0% of income from government
- Samaritan Inn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
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.