· Private foundation
The Mill Foundation Ltd
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $691k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILL GLOBAL | $240,000 |
| AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| STOWE LAND TRUST | $51,000 |
| PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT | $50,000 |
| PROTECT OUR WINTERS | $50,000 |
| KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NO NEW ENGLAND | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| NPR | $30,000 |
| HAVE JUSTICE WILL TRAVEL | $30,000 |
| PROJECT ALS | $25,000 |
| US SKI & SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- TCTHE CHILL FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $470k · revenue +535%
- CFCHILL FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $440k · revenue +28%
- CGCHILL GLOBAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $440k · revenue +11%
Funded once
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -54%- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2020 · $25k
- VWVERMONT WOMEN'S FUNDone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
See schedule othe mission of the vermont council on world affairs is to promote awareness and understanding of the world and its people, places and cultures through education and engagement. the future of vermont depends upon the world…
To support broad charitable purposes, primarily in the state of vermont.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Vail valley foundation was created to enhance the quality of life in the vail valley and showcase our community to a global audience through arts, athletics, and education.
Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.
Vermont pbs celebrates the innovation and creative spirit of vermont, our neighbors in new england, new york and canada, and civic society beyond, to spark community and democracy in our world. we offer programming and events that connect,…
The woodstock foundation, inc. promotes conservation, sustainable land use, and heritage as values that are essential to culture, community and the human spirit.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
We nurture the economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity of people, businesses, organizations and communities in vermont for the benefit and well-being of all who live here.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd and the most unlike its peers is The Chill Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 63 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 THE CHILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILL GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBER OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAVE JUSTICE-WILL TRAVEL INC ↗
- Who funds STOWE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
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: Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Waterwheel Foundation · Oakland Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund · The Jerry Greenfield & Elizabeth Skarie Foundation · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Vermont Afterschool Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc
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 Mill Foundation Ltd 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.
- Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
- North Central Vermont Recovery Center Inc — 69% of income from government
- Prevent Child Abuse Vermont — 58% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Laraway Youth and Family Services Inc — 36% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust — 10% of income from government
- Vermont Parks Forever Inc — 8% of income from government
- Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation — 8% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Kingdom County Productions Inc — 1% of income from government
- Chill Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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.