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The Betty Millard 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.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.5MEnvironment$323kAnimals$307kEducation$138kCivil Rights$131kHealth$70kReligion$63kRecreation & Sports$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC$30,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$30,000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$5,000
INDIVISIBLE CIVICS INC$5,000
WATSONVILLE PUBLIC HOUSE$5,000
COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY INC$2,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$1,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%SIDEKICK FOUNDATION 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%MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA 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%MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA 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%SIDEKICK FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 5%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $40k → 7%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30k → 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%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%STOP IVORY INC: $30k → 17%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
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
DE
NM
DC
AL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$911k · 27 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
19

Total granted

$911k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+42%

Still filing today

89%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • ME
    MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $155k · 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%
  • AC
    ACCELERATE CHANGE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -7%
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
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
6
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
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
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
10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
Climate Catalyst Inc

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

Environment
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,467,520 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Foundation IncMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $155,000 · PhilanthropyMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $245,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSTOP IVORY INC: $110,000 · OtherSTOP IVORY INCCONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH: $62,600 · OtherCONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT…TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Department of Ped: $30,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $45,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERA…+19 more: $109,248 · Other+19 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 RightsINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $5,000 · 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: $67,500 · AnimalsFELINES & FRIENDS NEW MEXICO: $10,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,500 · AnimalsJEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST CAMPING CORPORATION: $47,080 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$1,625,520Other$601,848Civil Rights$133,138Education$120,930Environment$110,302Animals$81,000Recreation & Sports$47,080

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,467,520 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $245,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $155,000 over 5y, 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: $67,500 over 9y, 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: $45,000 over 9y, 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: $18,000 over 9y, 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 budgetFELINES & FRIENDS NEW MEXICO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Common Ground: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATSONVILLE PUBLIC HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Harvest International: $2,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budget350ORG: $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCool Effect Inc: $1,102 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEL PAJARO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Bridges: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 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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