· Private foundation
Arjay R and Frances F 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of ARJAY R AND FRANCES F MILLER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $323k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $690k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA | $250,000 |
| BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATER | $200,000 |
| ACT | $200,000 |
| BAY CITY NEWS FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| KENT SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| REFED INC | $50,000 |
| BURLINGAME HIGH SCHOOL EXCELLENCE FUND | $25,000 |
| BROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $25,000 |
| HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| BURLINGAME COMMUNITY FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SILICON VALLEY | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +5%- BRBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE6× · 2019–2024 · $975k · revenue +2%
- BCBAY CITY NEWS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $430k · revenue +14%
Funded once
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +8%- JJAWSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- POPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +61%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Public knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. we work to shape policy on behalf of the public interest.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is 1888 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 90 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BAY CITY NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFED INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURLINGAME COMMUNITY FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds FFWD ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Girls Chorus Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FIRST CONGREGATIONAL NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT LEVEL SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Human Investment Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S E-NEWS ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Thunderbirds · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Intuit Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.