Illinois · Private foundation
The Mill Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $124k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Mill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $124k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $124k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $115k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $252k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $121k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $119k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Community Center | $89,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Patriots' Gateway Community Center | $82,800 | 6 | 5% |
| Winnebago County Casa | $54,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Boys & Girls Club Association of Rockford | $54,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries | $48,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwest Christian Community Development Corp | $46,930 | 4 | n/a |
| Ken-Rock Community Center Inc | $33,560 | 4 | 4% |
| Blackhawk Area Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc | $32,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Remedies Renewing Lives | $28,226 | 5 | 0% |
| Rock House Kids | $28,171 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mill Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Ahlstrand Family Foundation · SwedishAmerican Health Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Mill Foundation
- How much does The Mill Foundation give?
- The Mill Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $124,065 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Mill Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Youth Development (28%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are The Mill Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Northwest Community Center ($90k), Patriots' Gateway Community Center ($83k), Winnebago County Casa ($55k).
- Does The Mill Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mill Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern IL, The Kjellstrom Family Foundation, United Way of Rock River Valley.
- Where is The Mill Foundation based?
- The Mill Foundation is based in IL.
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