· Private foundation
The Brian and Sheila McMillan Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE | $10,000 |
| LIONS INK | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONS | $5,000 |
| BRYCES BLESSINGS THE BRYCE BORCA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE SUNSHINE STOP | $2,500 |
| BOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF | $2,500 |
| OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LAKE MINNETONKA KLONDIKE DOG DERBY | $1,500 |
| LAKE MINNETONKA ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS | $1,000 |
| EXCELSIOR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| GRAPEVINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $400 |
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, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 98% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Brian and Sheila McMillan Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- ICINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $56k · revenue +20%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +9%
- OHOPEN HANDS FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- BJBecoming Jackson Wholeone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
- SCSO-HI COMMUNITY PARKone grant, 2024 · $5k
- KKKAPPA KAPPA GAMMAone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
The Minneapolis Parks Foundation transforms human lives through parks and public spaces by aligning philanthropic investment and community vision.
The minnesota zoo foundation raises contributed income and supports conservation and animal care programs on behalf of the minnesota zoo. the mission of the minnesota zoo is to connect people, animals, and the natural world to save…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
Purpose: we inspire generosity, advocate for equity and invest in community-led solutions. aspiration: we envision an equitable, just and vibrant minnesota where all communities and people thrive. values: we listen. we innovate and learn.…
The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…
The mission of the minnesota fastbreak foundation is to have a meaningful impact in the communities where we live, work and play.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mt Carmel High School Music Foundation. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 45 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 COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONS ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lion's Fire ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRYCES BLESSINGS THE BRYCE BORCA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Becoming Jackson Whole ↗
- Who funds Lake Minnetonka Association ↗
- Who funds SO-HI COMMUNITY PARK ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE MINNETONKA KLONDIKE DOG DERBY ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF LAKE MINNETONKA- EXCELSIOR INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE MINNETONKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DINOMIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Grapevine giving foundation ↗
- Who funds A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation ↗
- Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNETONKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kenwood Elementary PTA ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Richard G Jacobus Family Foundation · Tradition Family Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Xcel Energy 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 The Brian and Sheila McMillan Family 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.
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.
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