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Aida Miller 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.

$156k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$302kEducation$183kReligion$42kInternational$33kCivil Rights$27kPhilanthropy$23kSocial Science$14kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stanford University$75,000
Vanderbilt University$20,000
Samaritans Purse International Relief$10,000
True the Vote$8,000
Alzheimers Association$5,000
Bay Area Young Survivors$4,500
Palacio Community Hub$3,000
Coastal Hospice$3,000
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation$2,500
Prageru$2,500
Ukraine Aid Operations$2,500
Compassion International$2,021
Students For Life$2,000
Open Heart Kitchen$2,000
Students 4 Liberty$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%Let them Live: $200 → 12%Mercy Chefs: $3k → 20%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%American Red Cross: $500 → 14%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$320k · 40 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
32

Total granted

$320k
$242k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+14%

Still filing today

65%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • Vanderbilt University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +65%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +106%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE (APPLIED TO PRIOR YEAR QUALIFYING DISTRIBUTIONS)
    one grant, 2018 · $220k
  • A
    ACBL
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • MC
    MERCY CHEFS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +32%
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
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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5
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
6
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
9
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
10
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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12
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tri-Valley Socks. 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

62 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. 62 of the 85 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
42/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE (APPLIED TO PRIOR YEAR QUALIFYING DISTRIBUTIONS): $219,755 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (APPLIED TO PRIOR YEAR QUALIFYING DISTRIBUTIONS)CORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIP: $38,250 · OtherCORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIPENMU Foundation: $26,000 · OtherENMU FoundationStanford University Research Fund: $14,525 · Other+45 more: $113,961 · Other+45 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES O…Vanderbilt University: $42,200 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityPLEASANTON PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EducationPLEASANTON PARTNERSHIPS…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Education+6 more: $9,256 · Education+6 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $14,000 · HealthGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $9,825 · HealthBay Area Young Survivors: $9,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,500 · HealthPARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY: $4,500 · HealthTRI-VALLEY SOCKS: $1,725 · Health+8 more: $4,030 · HealthFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $22,500 · Community ImprovementSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $18,500 · ReligionBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $3,000 · ReligionStudents for Life of America Inc: $9,500 · Civil RightsTRUE THE VOTE INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsSECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $2,000 · Civil RightsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,500 · Human ServicesCOASTAL HOSPICE: $3,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human Services
Other$412,491Education$143,956Health$48,580Community Improvement$22,500Religion$21,500Civil Rights$21,500Human Services$14,200

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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $42,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLEASANTON PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $10,065 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB: $10,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $9,825 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Young Survivors: $9,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTRUE THE VOTE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Rational Economics and Education Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CRPA FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL HOSPICE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZ-CARES FOUNDATION: $2,006 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $1,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-VALLEY SOCKS: $1,725 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetALAN HU FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALACIOS LIBRARY INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CAUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA GUN RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND AMENDMENT LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGIOGENESIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCulinary Angels: $270 over 2y, 0.1% 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLEASANTON PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds PALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB ↗
  • Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
  • Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bay Area Young Survivors ↗
  • Who funds TRUE THE VOTE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Rational Economics and Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CRPA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
  • Who funds PARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH 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.

Donors Trust IncBeautiful Jade Educat…Community Health & Ed…Three Valleys Communi…Fremont Bank Foundati…The Albertsons Compan…The San Francisco Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Shell USA Company Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…
Donors Trust IncVA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Beautiful Jade Education Foundation · Community Health & Education Foundation · Three Valleys Community Foundation · Fremont Bank Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving 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 Aida Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aida Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 85 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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