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The Millison Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Millison Foundation Inc

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$18kArts & Culture$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kCivil Rights$9kInternational$7kReligion$7kEducation$4kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$207k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US Holocaust Memorial Museum$5,000
World Jewish Congress$2,000
Maryland Food Bank$1,000
Lexington Park Rescue Squad$1,000
Historic Sotterley Inc$1,000
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 (FY19–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ST MARY'S CARING: $5k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%ST MARY'S CARING: $500 → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%ST MARY'S CARING: $250 → 8%ST MARY'S CARING: $250 → 8%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

MN
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 21 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
28

Total granted

$62k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+32%

Still filing today

52%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    6× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +38%
  • S
    STMARY'SCARINGINC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $6k · revenue +290%

Funded once

  • IL
    INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • BF
    BONNI FINE KAUFMAN ENDOWED MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • SA
    SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +149%
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
Franklin Square Hospital Center Inc

See schedule o medstar franklin square medical center, a member of medstar health, provides the highest quality healthcare and education to our communities.

Health
2
Medstar Southern Md Hospital Center Inc

See schedule oas a proud member of medstar health, medstar southern maryland hospital center's (medstar southern maryland) mission is to uphold its commitment to the community by continuously promoting, maintaining, and improving health…

Health
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
6
Hh Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
7
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
8
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
9
The Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland Inc

See schedule owe are guided by catholic teachings to provide compassionate, inclusive, and connected care to the community we are entrusted to serve.

Health
10
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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11
Arcadia Food Inc

Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.

Food & Nutrition
12
Montgomery General Hospital Inc

See schedule omedstar montgomery medical center is dedicated to enhancing our community's health by offering high quality, compassionate and personalized care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is N Street Village Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

32 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. 32 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEMIKE'S FOOD BANK: $5,939 · OtherMIKE'S FOOD BANKTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $4,100 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCWorld Jewish Congress: $4,000 · OtherWorld Jewish CongressFRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $1,800 · OtherTHE LIGHT HOUSE SHELTER: $1,750 · OtherHADASSAH: $1,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,550 · Other+29 more: $12,300 · Other+29 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Re…STMARY'SCARINGINC: $6,000 · Human ServicesSTMARY'SCARINGINCGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $500 · Human ServicesThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,350 · Arts & CultureThe United Stat…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,500 · InternationalMEDECINS …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,350 · InternationalJEWISH NA…International Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 · InternationalInternati…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $500 · InternationalAMERICAN …SEEDS 4 SUCCESS INC: $2,100 · Youth DevelopmentANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionFEED ST MARYS INC: $500 · Food & NutritionHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $750 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF CEDAR LANE INC: $250 · Housing & Shelter
Other$41,189Human Services$13,500Arts & Culture$10,350International$6,350Youth Development$2,100Food & Nutrition$2,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTMARY'SCARINGINC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $4,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS 4 SUCCESS INC: $2,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED ST MARYS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWELL FOUNDATION INC: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR LANE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MISSION 01 INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTMARY'S ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC: $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TA THE SU: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSO MD Vacations for Vets Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEVENTH DISTRICT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $100 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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds STMARY'SCARINGINC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS 4 SUCCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED ST MARYS INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CEDAR LANE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MISSION 01 INC ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE4.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 48%
  • St Mary's County Arts Council Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Stmary'scaringinc: 63% of income from government
  • Seeds 4 Success Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Historic Sotterley Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Medstar Health Inc: 23% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 52 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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