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The McGue Millhiser Family Trust James McN Millhiser Trustee at a glance

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The McGue Millhiser Family Trust James McN Millhiser Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$911k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.7MArts & Culture$1.7MHealth$830kHuman Services$572kRecreation & Sports$152kYouth Development$102kPublic Safety & Disaster$84kReligion$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $415k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HILL SCHOOL$100,000
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$75,000
THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION$75,000
ROOTS AND WINGS$60,000
MONMOUTH COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC$55,000
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
BATES COLLEGE$35,000
GOOCHLAND CARES$30,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$30,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$30,000
RIVERSIDE SCHOOL$30,000
WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY LAW SCH$25,000
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS FOR CHANGE$25,000
ROCKVILLE SCHOOL PARK FOUNDATION$25,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$25,000
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 (FY17–25, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $30k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $20k → 17%ROOTS AND WINGS: $60k → 11%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $20k → 17%ROOTS AND WINGS: $60k → 11%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $20k → 17%ROOTS AND WINGS: $55k → 11%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $20k → 17%ROOTS AND WINGS: $50k → 11%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $20k → 17%ROOTS AND WINGS: $25k → 11%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $15k → 17%ROOTS AND WINGS: $10k → 11%FAMILY LIFELINE: $1k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $1k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $1k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $1k → 22%MERCY CENTER NJ: $10k → 6%MERCY CENTER NJ: $10k → 6%MERCY CENTER NJ: $10k → 6%MERCY CENTER NJ: $10k → 6%MERCY CENTER NJ: $2k → 6%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

ME
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
VA
KS
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 61 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
24

Total granted

$5.8M
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+15%

Still filing today

61%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +44%
  • G
    GoochlandCares
    9× · 2017–2025 · $420k · revenue +84%
  • Monmouth County Historical Association
    8× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • BH
    Bethesda Hospital Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +93%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • NA
    NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -3%
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
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
2
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
10
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
11
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monmouth Medical Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Head Strong Project 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

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 90 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
41/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JOYCE THEATER: $360,000 · OtherTHE JOYCE THEATERWASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY LAW SCH: $335,000 · OtherWASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $250,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSDUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $150,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERCHRIST CHURCH SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH SCHOOLMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $84,000 · Other+35 more: $596,500 · Other+35 moreTHE HILL SCHOOL: $1,022,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOLPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $260,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES CO…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $220,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $165,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INCDUKE UNIVERSITY: $65,000 · Education+7 more: $152,000 · Education+7 moreMonmouth County Historical Association: $295,000 · Arts & CultureMonmouth County…NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $180,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY B…JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER F…THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BATTERY CON…ART for Refugees in Transition Inc: $65,000 · Arts & CultureART for Refugee…SIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $76,500 · Arts & Culture+9 moreGoochlandCares: $420,000 · HealthGoochlandCare…Bethesda Hospital Inc: $100,000 · HealthBethesda Hosp…Parker Family Health Center Inc: $75,000 · HealthParker Family…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $75,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · HealthMONMOUTH MEDI…HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $8,000 · HealthRoots and Wings Inc: $260,000 · Human ServicesRoots and…THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: $145,000 · Human ServicesTHE AMERI…WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $51,500 · Human ServicesWESTMINST…MERCY CENTER CORPORATION: $42,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CEN…+2 more: $18,000 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Recreation & SportsROCKVILLE SCHOOL PARK FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsDeep Run Horse Show Association: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsPART OF THE SOLUTION: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE INC: $12,000 · Food & NutritionTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,025,500Education$1,884,000Arts & Culture$861,500Health$763,000Human Services$516,500Recreation & Sports$142,000Food & Nutrition$37,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $1,022,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGoochlandCares: $420,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetMonmouth County Historical Association: $295,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $260,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRoots and Wings Inc: $260,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $220,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $180,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $165,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: $145,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBethesda Hospital Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetParker Family Health Center Inc: $75,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $75,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetART for Refugees in Transition Inc: $65,000 over 9y, 39% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $60,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $51,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY CENTER CORPORATION: $42,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $42,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG DANCE THEATER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $18,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHENRICO CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $14,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDeep Run Horse Show Association: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPartners for World Health: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSHORE CLUBHOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LIFELINE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY: $3,500 over 7y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
  • Who funds Monmouth County Historical Association ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Roots and Wings Inc ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING ↗
  • Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Bethesda Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Parker Family Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ART for Refugees in Transition Inc ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKVILLE SCHOOL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗

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 Community Foundat…The Mary Morton Parso…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Oceanfirst FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Windsor Fdn Trust Uw …Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Tesco FoundationThe Ansell Grimm & Aa…Robert G Cabell III a…Herndon FoundationManasquan Bank Charit…
The Community Foundation IncVA27.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Tesco Foundation · The Ansell Grimm & Aaron Foundation Inc · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Manasquan Bank Charitable 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 McGue Millhiser Family Trust James McN Millhiser Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McGue Millhiser Family Trust James McN Millhiser Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Mercy Center Corporation: 21% of income from government
  • Shore Clubhouse Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bethesda Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report 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.

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 90 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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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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