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The Brian and Sheila McMillan Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$74kFood & Nutrition$61kHuman Services$52kPhilanthropy$51kEducation$46kPublic Benefit$10kHealth$6kEnvironment$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION$10,000
LIONS INK$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION$10,000
BRYCES BLESSINGS THE BRYCE BORCA FOUNDATION$5,000
COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONS$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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%BRYCES BLESSINGS THE BRYCE BORCA FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%BRYCES BLESSINGS THE BRYCE BORCA FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%BRYCES BLESSINGS THE BRYCE BORCA FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ICA FOOD SHELF: $13k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $13k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $10k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $8k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $5k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $5k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $3k → 11%LIONS INK: $10k → 11%LIONS INK: $10k → 11%LIONS INK: $10k → 11%LIONS INK: $3k → 11%LIONS INK: $3k → 11%LIONS INK: $3k → 11%LIONS INK: $1k → 11%LIONS INK: $500 → 11%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

ID
MN
MI
NY
MA
WY
IN
OH
CA
MD
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Brian and Sheila McMillan Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Brian and Sheila McMillan Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$266k · 20 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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19

Total granted

$266k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

65%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • IC
    INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $56k · revenue +20%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +9%
  • OH
    OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • BJ
    Becoming Jackson Wholegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +89%
  • SC
    SO-HI COMMUNITY PARK
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • KK
    KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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
Minnesota Hospital Foundation

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.

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2
Conservation Minnesota

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.

Environment
3
Minneapolis Parks Foundation

The Minneapolis Parks Foundation transforms human lives through parks and public spaces by aligning philanthropic investment and community vision.

Recreation & Sports
4
Minnesota Zoo Foundation

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…

Animals
5
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
6
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
7
Minnesota Community Foundation

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.…

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8
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

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…

Community Improvement
9
The Minnesota Fastbreak Foundation

The mission of the minnesota fastbreak foundation is to have a meaningful impact in the communities where we live, work and play.

Human Services
10
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
11
The Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation

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.

Youth Development
12
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
14/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $55,725 · Human ServicesINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCI…Lion's Fire: $39,000 · Human ServicesLion's FireBRYCES BLESSINGS THE BRYCE BORCA FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Human ServicesBRYCES BLESSINGS THE BRYCE BORCA FOU…COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONS: $67,250 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONSSO-HI COMMUNITY PARK: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSO-HI COMMUNITY PARK+1 more: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDAT…OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION: $18,500 · PhilanthropyOPEN HANDS FOUNDA…+2 more: $1,300 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …+2 more: $2,350 · Education+2 moreBOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF: $5,000 · OtherBOUNTIFUL BAS…SUNSHINE STOP: $3,700 · OtherSUNSHINE STOPKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA: $3,000 · OtherKAPPA KAPPA G…KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherKAPPA KAPPA G…EXCELSIOR METHODIST CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherPAWS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherPAWS: $1,500 · OtherPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $1,500 · OtherPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · OtherPATHFINDER IN…BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS: $2,500 · OtherBEER CITY DOG…+20 more: $10,902 · Other+20 moreBecoming Jackson Whole: $10,000 · Public BenefitLake Minnetonka Association: $5,250 · Environment
Human Services$107,225Recreation & Sports$73,750Philanthropy$49,800Education$42,350Other$40,102Public Benefit$10,000Environment$5,250

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOR THE COMMONS: $67,250 over 8y, 10% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $55,725 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLion's Fire: $39,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBRYCES BLESSINGS THE BRYCE BORCA FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBecoming Jackson Whole: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLake Minnetonka Association: $5,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEER CITY DOG BISCUITS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE MINNETONKA KLONDIKE DOG DERBY: $1,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC: $1,262 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF LAKE MINNETONKA- EXCELSIOR INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDINOMIGHTS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGrapevine giving foundation: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNETONKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA Breath of Hope Lung Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMT CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKenwood Elementary PTA: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOND BETWEEN: $100 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.

The Minneapolis Found…The Richard M Schulze…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Richard G Jacobus Fam…Tradition Family Foun…The Graco FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Otto Bremer TrustThe US Charitable Gif…Xcel Energy Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN24.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Brian and Sheila McMillan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brian and Sheila McMillan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Brian and Sheila McMillan Family 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 45 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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