· Private foundation
The George and Carol Milne 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYSTIC AQUARIUM | $60,000 |
| OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING | $48,160 |
| SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| WILLIAMS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| GILEAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC | $5,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| THE PROVIDENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| PROJECT OCEANOLOGY | $750 |
| GAYLORD HOSPITAL | $750 |
| OSWEGATCHIE HILLS NATURE PRESERVE | $500 |
| HOPKINS SCHOOL | $500 |
| GICIA | $500 |
| OUR LADY'S INN | $500 |
| HORIZONS | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GHGaylord Hospital INC5× · 2020–2024 · $739k · revenue +8%
- HIHORIZONS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +12%
- BGBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $13k
- CFCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -46%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTone grant, 2022 · $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.
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes
Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dexter Southfield Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hygienic Art 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.
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 49 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 55 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 Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAMS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALLIOPE JOY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IN FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADYS INN ↗
- Who funds Interdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Garde Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE RIVER - SAVE THE HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER ↗
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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Carbonari Family Foundation · Sweet Peas Foundation · Howe Family Foundation · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · The Edward and Mary Lord 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 George and Carol Milne 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the River - Save the Hills Inc — 32% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Interdistrict Committee for Project Oceanology — 11% of income from government
- Garde Arts Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
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.