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The Milliron Foundation

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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$601k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.9MHuman Services$1.8MEducation$1.6MHealth$979kReligion$716kRecreation & Sports$485kHousing & Shelter$334kFood & Nutrition$209kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $278k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.2M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$118M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL BUILDING$600,736
YMCA OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO$506,000
TAKING ROOT FARMS$500,000
THIRD STREET CLINIC$329,000
WAYFINDERS OHIO INC$280,000
RICHLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIET$150,000
Individual grant recipient$121,137
RICHLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$120,000
THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER$119,500
ZELLE'S HOME$100,000
LOVE OUR HEROES$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
ASHBROOK CENTER$75,000
FAMILY OF DORIAN UTT$67,488
PROJECT ONE$57,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 15%YMCA OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $506k → 15%TAKING ROOT FARMS: $500k → 15%RICHLAND COUNTY CHILDREN'S AUXILIAR: $18k → 15%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.
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 18 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+40%

Still filing today

39%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MC
    MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $414k · revenue +66%
  • FR
    FLAT ROCK COMMUNITY SERVICES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +22%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO
    5× · 2017–2024 · $204k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHELBY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • RN
    RCDG-RICHLAND NEWHOPE PARK
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • DT
    DISTRIBUTION TO MECHANICS BANK PER
    one grant, 2022 · $190k
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
Ashland Assisted Living Inc

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
2
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
3
Richland Care Center Inc

The organization provides 24 hour oversight and nursing care and aims to maintain each resident at their maximum level of function, provide a home-like atmosphere of caring and respect, and accommodate individual differences to the extent…

Health
4
National Church Residences At Home Inc

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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5
Nami of Richland County Ohio

Our mission is to improve the quality of life, ensure dignity and respect for persons with mental illness, and to support their families.

Health
6
Ohio Hills Health Services

Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…

—
7
Residential Home for the Developmentally Disabled Inc

Built on a foundation of compassion and integrity, rhdd is dedicated to supporting individuals with a disability, to live and work in their communities.safe in a family environment, individuals are empowered to achieve personal and…

—
8
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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9
Reid Hospital & Health Care Services Inc

Our mission: to lead our communities to well-being, one person at a time. this mission is carried out by serving the people of a multi-county service area in reference to their current and future needs for health care services. our major…

Health
10
Hospice of Northwest Ohio

Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan

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11
Ohio Disability Rights Law & Policy Center Inc

To advocate for an equitable ohio for people with disabilities.

Civil Rights
12
Ohio Living Quaker Heights

To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richland County Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

29 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. 29 of the 67 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL BUILDING: $600,736 · OtherMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL BUILDINGSHELBY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $500,000 · OtherSHELBY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTLOVING SHEPHERD MINISTRIES: $485,000 · OtherLOVING SHEPHERD MINISTRIESMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $414,100 · OtherMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLThird Street Community Clinic: $329,000 · OtherThird Street Community ClinicRCDG-RICHLAND NEWHOPE PARK: $200,000 · OtherMAIN STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $190,000 · OtherDISTRIBUTION TO MECHANICS BANK PER: $189,952 · Other+42 more: $1,760,868 · Other+42 moreRICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION: $2,843,569 · PhilanthropyRICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC: $506,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG M…TAKING ROOT FARMS INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesTAKING ROOT…+2 more: $23,300 · Human ServicesWAYFINDERS OHIO INC: $310,000 · Housing & ShelterZELIE'S HOME: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterFLAT ROCK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $265,000 · HealthPROJECTONE: $57,000 · HealthProject White Butterfly: $54,000 · Health+2 more: $15,000 · HealthTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO: $204,030 · Recreation & SportsRAEMELTON THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $14,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SHELBY OHIO: $149,703 · Community ImprovementRICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Other$4,669,656Philanthropy$2,943,569Human Services$1,029,300Housing & Shelter$410,000Health$391,000Recreation & Sports$218,030Community Improvement$157,203

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION: $2,843,569 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC: $506,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTAKING ROOT FARMS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetMANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $414,100 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetThird Street Community Clinic: $329,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWAYFINDERS OHIO INC: $310,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetFLAT ROCK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $265,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO: $204,030 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SHELBY OHIO: $149,703 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC: $129,500 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetRichland County Historical Society: $120,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $100,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetZELIE'S HOME: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLOVE OUR HEROS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECTONE: $57,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetProject White Butterfly: $54,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $52,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY CHILDRENS AUXILIARY: $18,300 over 1y, 11% of budgetOHIO DISTRICT 5 AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $15,655 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAEMELTON THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $14,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEliza Jennings Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRICHLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE VILLAGE NETWORK: $5,670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED OHIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMID-OHIO YOUTH MENTORING: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds TAKING ROOT FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Third Street Community Clinic ↗
  • Who funds WAYFINDERS OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds FLAT ROCK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION OF SHELBY OHIO ↗
  • Who funds THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Richland County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ZELIE'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds LOVE OUR HEROS INC ↗
  • Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECTONE ↗
  • Who funds Project White Butterfly ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY CHILDRENS AUXILIARY ↗

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.

Richland County Found…The Robert and Esther…Ashland County Commun…United Way of Richlan…Edith B & Joseph E Hu…The Hire Family Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Ford S N & Ada Fund P…The Milton R & Beulah…Gorman Family Foundat…Richard & Arline Land…OhioHealth Corporation
Richland County FoundationOH34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richland County Foundation · The Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation · Ashland County Community Foundation · United Way of Richland County · Edith B & Joseph E Humphrey Family Foundation · The Hire Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ford S N & Ada Fund Pfdn · The Milton R & Beulah M Young Foundation · Gorman Family Foundation · Richard & Arline Landers Foundation · OhioHealth Corporation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Milliron Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Milliron Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 67 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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