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C John and Reva Miller Charitable Founda
Its FY2025 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: 51% of C JOHN AND REVA MILLER CHARITABLE FOUNDA’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $322k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST COMMUNITY NAPLES | $65,000 |
| TROWBRIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $35,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| 5110 YOUTH RANCH | $25,000 |
| VALLEY LIGHT PROGRAMS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| TANNERS TOTES | $20,000 |
| JUST ONE AFRICA | $20,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $17,200 |
| TREE OF LIFE | $15,000 |
| RCE INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE RETREAT | $15,000 |
| CAMP BEECHPOINT | $10,000 |
| ILLUMINATIONS | $10,000 |
| LIFE BRIDGE CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $936k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- IFILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +136%
- SMSINGLE MOMM6× · 2019–2024 · $541k · revenue +555%
- KAKids Alive International Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $375k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- KGKALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSIONone grant, 2017 · $125k
- HBHARVEST BIBLE CHAPELone grant, 2019 · $100k
- VAVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMANDone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -20%
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.
Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
Bible Camping, Inc. is a missions-based camping ministry existing to lovingly confront each camper with his or her need of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ in salvation and to encourage each one to a life of obedience and service…
To assist the global body of Christ in the evangelization, education, and impartation of spiritual growth to unevangelized peoples, and Christian adherents.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Still Water Camps shares the life-changing truth of Jesus Christ through evangelistic and discipleship-focused initiatives in partnership with the local body of Christ. We seek to serve the community through overnight camp, day camps, and…
To offer Kingdom partners a holy and unforgettable experience at our Texas Hill Country retreat and camp facility highlighting the still waters of God's majestic creation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Plus Nothing. 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 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 89 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 ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SINGLE MOMM ↗
- Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP BEECHPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY LIGHT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds 5110 YOUTH RANCH ↗
- Who funds TRUTH SKATE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Just One Africa Inc ↗
- Who funds Alongside Inc ↗
- Who funds VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Alaska Missions & Retreats ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO DEACONS CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds BADGER SIX INC ↗
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: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 C John and Reva Miller Charitable Founda 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.
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