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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.

$990k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$948kYouth Development$905kPhilanthropy$555kEnvironment$493kArts & Culture$491kCrime & Legal$325kReligion$175kEmployment$153kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $255k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $691k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NO NEW ENGLAND$50,000
KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS$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
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$20,000
US SKI & SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION$20,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 9%LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 9%LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 9%LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 9%LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 9%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

VT
NH
MN
NY
MA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
DC
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.
$4.5M · 49 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
11

Total granted

$4.5M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
0%

Still filing today

65%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $470k · revenue +535%
  • CF
    CHILL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $440k · revenue +28%
  • CG
    CHILL GLOBAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $440k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -54%
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • VW
    VERMONT WOMEN'S FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Vermont Public Co

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

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…

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3
J Warren and Lois Mcclure Foundation

To support broad charitable purposes, primarily in the state of vermont.

Education
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Wheaton College

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…

Education
6
Vail Valley Foundation

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.

Community Improvement
7
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

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.

Environment
8
Vermont Etv Inc

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,…

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9
The Woodstock Foundation Inc

The woodstock foundation, inc. promotes conservation, sustainable land use, and heritage as values that are essential to culture, community and the human spirit.

Education
10
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
11
Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.

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12
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc

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.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 63 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILL GLOBAL INC: $440,000 · OtherCHILL GLOBAL INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NO NEW ENGLAND: $360,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NO NEW ENGLANDPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT: $250,000 · OtherPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONTIndividual grant recipient: $174,222 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $170,000 · OtherST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCHNPR: $140,000 · OtherCAMBER OUTDOORS: $125,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK ANNUAL FUND: $120,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherSPAULDING REHABILITATION NETWORK: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherLOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $100,000 · Other+30 more: $554,250 · Other+30 moreTHE CHILL FOUNDATION: $470,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILL FO…THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT …+1 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $425,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR…STOWE LAND TRUST: $55,000 · EnvironmentSTOWE LAND …+1 more: $12,500 · EnvironmentCHILL FOUNDATION: $440,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILL FOUN…KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC: $185,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $20,500 · Arts & CulturePROJECT ALS INC: $125,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $50,000 · HealthHAVE JUSTICE-WILL TRAVEL INC: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsVERMONT PARKS FOREVER INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR FUND: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,843,472Philanthropy$527,500Environment$492,500Youth Development$440,000Arts & Culture$225,500Health$175,000Recreation & Sports$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILL FOUNDATION: $440,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCHILL GLOBAL INC: $440,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $425,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT: $250,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetKINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC: $185,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $125,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCAMBER OUTDOORS: $125,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetLOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVE JUSTICE-WILL TRAVEL INC: $75,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetSTOWE LAND TRUST: $55,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKS SCHOOL: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKELLY CLARK FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 5y, 100% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMDRC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Childrens Trust Foundation: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CURRENT INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT PARKS FOREVER INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIKES NOT BOMBS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTOWE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLawrence Woodmere Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • 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 THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗

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.

Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The Vermont Community…National Life Group C…The Waterwheel Founda…Oakland Foundation IncGeorge W Mergens Foun…Lucy D Nisbet Charita…The Jerry Greenfield …Francis T & Louis T N…Lintilhac Foundation …Vermont Afterschool I…The Windham Foundatio…
Ben & Jerry's Foundation IncVT29.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mill Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mill Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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