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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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$101kHousing & Shelter$96kHuman Services$93kFood & Nutrition$63kYouth Development$49kEducation$38kCommunity Improvement$15kArts & Culture$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEALS ON WHEELS OF MERCER COUNTY INC$5,000
FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION$5,000
GREATER LIFE INC$5,000
BESSIE GREEN COMMUNITY INC$5,000
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL NJ$5,000
CUMAC ECHO INC$5,000
SIERRA HOUSE$5,000
MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER$5,000
TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
CAREGIVER VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL JERSEY$5,000
BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC$5,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILDREN INC: $5k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF HUNTERDON COUNTY INC: $5k → 4%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN: $5k → 4%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $5k → 7%NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PR: $5k → 7%ARM IN ARM INC: $5k → 11%ASSOCIATION FOR MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND: $10k → 11%CUMAC ECHO INC: $5k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF HUDSON COUNTY: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $5k → 4%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $8k → 6%NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PR: $5k → 7%CUMAC ECHO INC: $5k → 12%ASSC FOR THE MUTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND: $5k → 11%4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $10k → 12%MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $5k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY: $8k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY: $8k → 11%4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $5k → 12%4 C'S OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $5k → 12%4 C'S OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $5k → 12%SIERRA HOUSE: $5k → 16%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

NY
NV
IN
NJ
CA
VA
MD
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$257k · 17 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
31

Total granted

$257k
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

88%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • GL
    GREATER LIFE INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +76%
  • IF
    INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +74%
  • HOMEFRONT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SI
    SAMARITAN INN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -26%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PATERSON
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • AR
    Axiom REACH Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -22%
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.

1
Nourishnj Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Home Care Options Inc

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.

Human Services
3
Family Promise of Bergen County

Provide temporary shelter and support to working families experiencing homelessness, and a dinner program to address food insecurity in the community.

Housing & Shelter
4
Homesharing Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Family Promise of Southwest Nj

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…

Human Services
6
Human Needs Food Pantry Inc

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

Human Services
7
Advocates for Children of New Jersey

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.

Human Services
8
Family Promise of Warren County Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Carelink Community Support Services Nj

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.

Health
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
11
Center for Humanistic Change of Nj Inc

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…

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12
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Sussex County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
27/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITYBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PATERSON: $10,000 · OtherCHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherMeals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc: $10,000 · OtherTHE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE ARC OF NEW JERSEY INC: $10,000 · OtherARM-IN-ARM INC: $10,000 · OtherCONTACT USA INC: $8,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $7,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREAT NEWARK INC: $7,500 · OtherST JOSEPHS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $7,000 · OtherAxiom REACH Inc: $10,000 · Other+14 more: $70,000 · Other+14 more4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Human Services4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INCFAMILY PROMISE OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE JERSEY S…ASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE I…CUMACECHO INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCUMACECHO INCNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY…FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNT…ARM IN ARM INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSierra House Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $5,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Hope Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF HUDSON COUNTY A NEW NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Hunterdon County Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthVIRTUA HEA…Cancer Care Inc: $10,000 · HealthCancer Car…BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC: $9,000 · HealthBERGEN VOL…Christian Health Care Center: $5,000 · HealthChristian …HOMEFRONT INC: $17,500 · EducationHOMEFRONT…NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $10,000 · EducationNEW JERSE…THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationTHOMAS ED…TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,000 · EducationTRI-COUNT…Newark Boys Chorus School: $3,000 · EducationNewark Bo…PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $2,500 · EducationPRESCHOOL…GREATER LIFE INC: $37,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER L…TEAM RANDY INC CO TOMS RIVER FITNESS FOR WOMEN: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSAMARITAN INN INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$200,000Human Services$133,000Health$44,000Education$43,000Recreation & Sports$39,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER LIFE INC: $37,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budget4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $15,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCUMACECHO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAxiom REACH Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF NEW JERSEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARM IN ARM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBESSIE GREEN COMMUNITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HUDSON COUNTY A NEW NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetBRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER HOPE NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Health Care Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewark Boys Chorus School: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEAM RANDY INC CO TOMS RIVER FITNESS FOR WOMEN: $2,000 over 1y, 4.7% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gertrude L Hirsch Cha…Community Foundation …Investors Foundation …The Provident Bank Fo…Scott Carolyn J Char …Ann Earle Talcott FundPseg Foundation IncE and S Van Houten Me…Columbia Bank Foundat…George a Ohl Jr TrustLillian P Schenck Tw …The Hyde and Watson F…
Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable TrustMO47.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert Mills Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert Mills Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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