· Private foundation
Steven a and Marianne M Mills Charitable Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHERWOOD FORESTRY SERVICE INC | $100,000 |
| MCC THEATER | $85,850 |
| FEEDING WESTCHESTER | $65,000 |
| NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $35,000 |
| AMERICARES | $30,257 |
| DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| POWERHOUSE ARTS INC | $25,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC | $18,000 |
| NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA INC | $10,000 |
| PUBLIC THEATER | $8,000 |
| SECOND STAGE THEATER | $7,500 |
| NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM | $5,100 |
| WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
72 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSHERWOOD FORESTRY SERVICE4× · 2022–2025 · $600k · revenue ×14 · 29% of their budget
- FWFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $190k · revenue +24%
- NYNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SSSYRACUSE STAGEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- FBFOOD BANK FOR WESTone grant, 2020 · $30k
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
To provoke, produce and cultivate the work of artists whose visions inspire and challenge all of us.
The mission of The York Theatre Company is fourfold:-1. To be a birthplace for new, literate, intimate musicals, and a place where underappreciated musical gems from the past are rediscovered.;-2. To provide support for the creators of new…
The perelman performing arts center creates connections by cultivating bonds between extraordinary artists and communities with exemplary performances in active dialogue across the arts in our flexible intimate spaces, inviting…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
Philadelphia theatre company is a vital civic institution dedicated to the creation of extraordinary theatrical experiences that reflect the essential issues and ideas of our time, and which foster connection, understanding, and…
The national new play network is the country's alliance of non-profit theatres that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays.
How this is measured
88 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. 88 of the 153 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 SHERWOOD FORESTRY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Tectonic Theater Project Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds POWERHOUSE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Full Spectrum Features NFP ↗
- Who funds THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB 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: The Shubert Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Marilynn and John Hill Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · Tracy Flanigan McVey Family Foundation · The Nagle Family Foundation · Richenthal Foundation · Axe-Houghton Foundation · George K and Cynthia R Cooney Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steven a and Marianne M Mills Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steven a and Marianne M Mills Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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