· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| 5110 YOUTH RANCH | $25,000 |
| VALLEY LIGHT PROGRAMS | $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 |
| ILLUMINATIONS | $10,000 |
| MISSION INDIA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 89 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 5110 YOUTH RANCH ↗
- Who funds VALLEY LIGHT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization C John and Reva Miller Charitable Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C John and Reva Miller Charitable Founda. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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