How much does Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation give?

Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $1,340,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Social Science (22%), Arts & Culture (20%), Education (11%).

Who are Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Public Policy Institute of California ($1.8M), Berkeley Repertory Theatre ($975k), Bay City News Foundation ($430k).

Does Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Arizona Community Foundation.

Where is Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation based?

Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation is based in CA.

Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation

Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$1.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Social Science$1.8MArts & Culture$1.6MEducation$854kAnimals$500kEnvironment$325kHealth$307kFood & Nutrition$250kCrime & Legal$236kOther$0

02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k18 grants · $78k
$10k–50k22 grants · $323k
$50k–250k7 grants · $690k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA	$250,000
ACT	$200,000
BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATER	$200,000
BAY CITY NEWS FOUNDATION	$90,000
KENT SCHOOL	$50,000
REFED INC	$50,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY	$50,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND	$50,000
BROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY	$25,000
BURLINGAME HIGH SCHOOL EXCELLENCE FUND	$25,000
HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION	$22,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA	$20,000
BURLINGAME COMMUNITY FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$20,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SILICON VALLEY	$20,000
JEFFREY GOTTFURCHT CHILDREN'S ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION	$15,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.9M · 62 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.9M

$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+5%

Still filing today

55%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentCivil RightsOther

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

PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +5%
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BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE
6× · 2019–2024 · $975k · revenue +2%
BC
BAY CITY NEWS FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $430k · revenue +14%

Funded once

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +8%
Chinese for Affirmative Action
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -60%
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JAWS
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

San Francisco Public Press

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…

Education

California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit

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

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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Pro Publica Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

The San Francisco School

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.

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Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education

Public Knowledge

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.

Public Benefit

Npr Foundation

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…

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Association of California School Administrators

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.

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The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; 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.

04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/55

Grantees still filing

41/55

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,196,500Arts & Culture$1,554,250Education$494,000Food & Nutrition$250,000Environment$225,000Crime & Legal$212,000Animals$190,000

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

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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA21.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arjay R and Frances F Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home