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The Betty Millard 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.

$118k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$1.5MEnvironment$323kAnimals$307kEducation$138kCivil Rights$131kHealth$70kReligion$63kRecreation & Sports$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE CONSERVANCY$45,000
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC$30,000
ACCELERATE CHANGE INC$10,000
NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INCORPORATED$10,000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION$10,000
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$5,000
COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY INC$2,000
SIERRA NEVADA ALLIANCE$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STOP IVORY INC: $30k → 10%JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATION: $15k → 7%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $37k → 11%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25k → 17%FELINES & FRIENDS NEW MEXICO: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10k → 18%NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INCORPORATED: $13k → 14%MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $30k → 5%RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1.5M → 16%STOP IVORY INC: $30k → 10%JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATION: $15k → 7%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25k → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10k → 18%NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INCORPORATED: $10k → 14%SIDEKICK FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 5%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50k → 7%STOP IVORY INC: $20k → 10%JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATION: $10k → 7%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20k → 17%SIDEKICK FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 5%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $45k → 7%ACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $10k → 16%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10k → 17%MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $30k → 5%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $40k → 7%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10k → 17%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $40k → 7%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 7%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 7%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $10k → 17%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $10k → 17%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $10k → 17%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $10k → 17%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $10k → 17%CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH: $20k → 17%CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH: $17k → 17%CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH: $10k → 17%CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH: $10k → 17%WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $25k → 17%WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $15k → 17%WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $15k → 17%WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $10k → 17%STOP IVORY INC: $30k → 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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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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$863k · 27 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
17

Total granted

$863k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+42%

Still filing today

89%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationCivil RightsAnimalsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • ME
    MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +93%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +41%
  • WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • LC
    LAFAYETTE COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +43%
  • FF
    FELINES & FRIENDS NEW MEXICO
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Leonard N Stern School of Bu
    one grant, 2020 · $6k

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.

1
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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8
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
9
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
10
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stop Ivory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersLocal Food System Organizat…Women & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…School Parent OrganizationsJewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%9%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr23%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr14%69%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr23%16%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
10%
4,324/41,949

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

44 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. 44 of the 49 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
37/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $1,467,520 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Foundation IncMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $125,000 · PhilanthropyMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC+1 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $215,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSTOP IVORY INC — $110,000 · OtherSTOP IVORY INCCONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH — $62,600 · OtherCONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHA…TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Department of Ped — $30,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNI…REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $40,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDER…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $20,000 · Other+16 more — $62,248 · Other+16 moreTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $38,138 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $15,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $75,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $37,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE — $5,000 · Education+3 more — $3,930 · EducationNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $90,400 · EnvironmentISLAND CONSERVATION — $10,000 · Environment+6 more — $9,902 · EnvironmentMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $57,500 · AnimalsFELINES & FRIENDS NEW MEXICO — $10,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,500 · AnimalsJEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATION — $47,080 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$1,594,020Other$559,848Civil Rights$128,138Education$120,930Environment$110,302Animals$71,000Recreation & Sports$47,080

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $1,467,520 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $215,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSTOP IVORY INC — $110,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $90,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $57,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATION — $47,080 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $38,138 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $37,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Action Board — $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NYC LAB SCHOOL PARENT'S ASSOCIATION INC — $15,360 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELINES & FRIENDS NEW MEXICO — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Common Ground — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350ORG — $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Harvest International — $2,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $1,680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCool Effect Inc — $1,102 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bridges — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEL PAJARO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR FARMWORKER FAMILIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetT'RUAH — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS 104 PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION — $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity Plaza Nursery School — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $36 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …Monterey Peninsula Fo…Marin Community Found…Tides FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…
Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyCA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 The Betty Millard 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Betty Millard Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Betty Millard 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 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.

    Source object · view filing

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