How much did THE MILL FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE MILL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

youthchildren

2021

visitationcareyouthvaluesstudentschildrenleadership

2022

women'smuseumparkchildrenyouthrockfordmiddle

2023

social welfare

2024

social welfare

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $49k
$10k–50k6 grants · $74k

$9,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK$13,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$13,500
ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION$10,800
CASA OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY$10,800
PATRIOTS' GATEWAY COMMUNITY CENTER$10,800
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$9,000
REMEDIES RENEWING LIVES$9,000
NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$8,316
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-BLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL$6,750
KEN-ROCK COMMUNITY CENTER$5,900
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS$4,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$3,600
ROCKFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSEL$2,250

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$662k · 23 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$662k

$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+175%

Still filing today

57%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

NC
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER
5× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +11%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCKFORD
5× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue +257%
WC
WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA
3× · 2019–2022 · $55k · revenue +44%

Funded once

CS
CHILDREN'S SAFE HARBORgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +175%
YO
YMCA - OF ROCK RIVER VALLEYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +55%
RP
ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT - WASHINGTON PARK
one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Reaching Our Community Kids

The mission of the rock center for youth development is to "build hope and resilience in youth based on a foundation of acceptance, support, and respect that results in positive life choices."

Youth Development

Rock Rapids Kids Club Inc

To provide nurturing and educational childcare services.

Human Services

Rockford Sexual Assault Counseling

To provide services to survivors of sexual assault/abuse and to educate the community to reduce the risk of sexual violence

Health

Stepping Stones of Rockford Inc

Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.

Human Services

The Workforce Connection Inc

Providing a workforce that meets the needs of our business community, now and in the future.

Employment

Safe Haven of Racine Inc

A facility for racine area youth to provide counseling and referral services, educ. resources and legal and medical resource assistance.

Human Services

Rockford Christian Education

To challenge young people to know christ as lord, apply god's truth in all areas of life, love others sacrifically, and achieve the highest level of knowledge and skill in order to serve god and others

Education

Rocksolid Community Teen Center

Provide a safe place for youth in the community to foster relationships with one another and become caring adults

Youth Development

Rockford Rotary Charitable Association

To provide leadership support for at risk youth within the community.

Community Improvement

Rockford Regional Health Council

Rockford regional health council is a not-for-profit social service corporation organized under the laws of the state of illinois for the purpose of improving community health through data gatering and analysis, education and advocacy.

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Rockford Community Service Center

North kent connect is a christian organization committed to improving the lives of all people in northern kent county by providing access to basic needs and promoting economic independence.

Human Services

Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Ken-Rock Community Center Inc. 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

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

15/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$494,769Human Services$86,000Youth Development$43,671Health$34,386Community Improvement$29,960Recreation & Sports$20,800Philanthropy$20,300

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Northern IlIL37.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Il · United Way of Rock River Valley · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Northern Illinois Food Bank · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Ahlstrand Family Foundation · Winnebago County Bar 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 organisation THE MILL 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.

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HOPE REIGNS RANCH NFP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 260472976 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HOPE REIGNS RANCH NFP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Mill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Mill Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MILL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Mill Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE MILL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Mill Foundation?

More from the funding graph