FundersNew York

Millbrook Tribute Garden

Millbrook, NY · EIN 14-1340079. Reported 174 grants totalling $9,084,500 to 51 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$9,084,500granted, 2020-2023
51organizations funded
93%of grantees funded again the next year
$29.2Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Millbrook Tribute Garden did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $35,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $2,277,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
68 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
54 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
25 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
10 grants
$100,000 and Up
12 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Millbrook Community Partnership IncMillbrook, NY$5,277,000442023
Dutchess Day SchoolMillbrook, NY$800,000442023
Millbrook SchoolMillbrook, NY$600,000442023
Lyall Mem Feder ChurchMillbrook, NY$235,000442023
Bard CollegeAnnadale on Hudson, NY$200,000442023
Cardinal Hayes HomeMillbrook, NY$180,000442023
Millbrook Central SchoolMillbrook, NY$160,000442023
Grace Episcopal ChurchMillbrook, NY$156,000442023
Dutchess Land ConservMillbrook, NY$140,000442023
Maplebrook SchoolAmenia, NY$140,000442023
St Joseph's ChurchMillbrook, NY$133,500442023
Town of WashingtonMillbrook, NY$131,000442023
Church of Immac ConceptiAmenia, NY$92,000442023
St Peters's ChurchMillbrook, NY$85,500442023
Millbrook Free LibraryMillbrook, NY$80,000442023
HospicePoughkeespie, NY$60,000442023
Miles of Hope Breast Cancer FdLagrangeville, NY$60,000442023
Pine Plains Memorial HallPine Plains, NY$60,000112020
Smithfield Presbyterian CAmenia, NY$60,000442023
Central Baptist ChurchSalt Point, NY$50,000442023
Amenia LibraryAmenia, NY$40,000442023
Innisfree GardenMillbrook, NY$40,000442023
Sparrows NestWappingers Falls, NY$40,000442023
Vassar HospitalPoughkeepsie, NY$40,000442023
Westchester Midhudson Regional HospPoughkeepsie, NY$40,000442023
St Bartholomew's ConservancyNew York, NY$25,000112021
Millbrook Arts GroupMillbrook, NY$24,000442023
Community Foundation of the Hudson ValleyPoughkeepsie, NY$20,000112021
Village of MillbrookMillbrook, NY$17,500332022
Our Lady of LourdesPoughkeepsie, NY$10,000112020
Millbrook Early Education FoundationMillbrook, NY$9,000332023
Dutchess County ArcPoughkeepsie, NY$8,000442023
Northeast Community CenterLittle Neck, NY$8,000442023
August Madeline Fields LLCClinton Corners, NY$4,000222023
DC SPCAPoughkeepsie, NY$4,000442023
Dutchess OutreachPoughkeepsie, NY$4,000442023
Mediation CenterPoughkeepsie, NY$4,000442023
Millbrook Girl ScoutsMillbrook, NY$4,000442023
Millbrook Historical SocietyMillbrook, NY$4,000442023
Millbrook Literary FestivalMillbrook, NY$4,000442023
Millbrook Senior CitizensMillbrook, NY$4,000442023
Northern Dutchess RaidersMillbrook, NY$4,000442023
Rural Migrant MinistryPoughkeepsie, NY$4,000442023
Verbank Methodist ChurchVerbank, NY$4,000442023
Young LifeNew Canaan, CT$4,000442023
MececMillbrook, NY$3,000112021
Millbrook Boy ScoutsMillbrook, NY$3,000332022
Rotary Club of MillbrookMillbrook, NY$3,000332023
St Peter's Church of LithgowMillbrook, NY$3,000112023
Millbrook at HomeMillbrook, NY$2,000112020
Millbrook RotaryMillbrook, NY$1,000112020

43 of 51 (84%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 93%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
14 grants
Education
12 grants
Arts & Culture
8 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202045$3,325,000$10,000
202144$1,953,000$10,000
202243$1,902,500$10,000
202342$1,904,000$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 100% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$9.1M
Connecticut
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Millbrook Tribute Garden's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Co George T Whalen, Millbrook, NY, 12545. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 14-1340079 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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