· Private foundation
C Wayne and Patricia J 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRU | $7,000 |
| HEARTSTONE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WARREN CULLWELL MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| EL AYUDANTE MISSIONS USA | $3,150 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $3,000 |
| SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| BIOLA UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| ELIJAH RISING | $2,500 |
| AS OUR OWN | $2,500 |
| THE RISE SCHOOL OF HOUSTON | $2,000 |
| KSBJ | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED NETWORK | $2,000 |
| BRIDGES TO LIFE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AOAS OUR OWN NFP8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +22%
- BUBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $19k · revenue +15%
- ERElijah Rising8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- WCWARREN CULWELL MINISTRY INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -3%
- BWBRIGHT WATER SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
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…
Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Provide teaching of the word of god and religious music.
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 93 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 HeartStone Pictures ↗
- Who funds AS OUR OWN NFP ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Elijah Rising ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MATHEIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOGOS LEADERS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds FREE THE CAPTIVES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds REASONS TO BELIEVE ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds WARREN CULWELL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ANANIAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNE HELPLINE ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Cross Foundation · Stoller Foundation · Houston Arts Alliance · GiveClear Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · More Than The Move Foundation DBA Hope Legacy Collective · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Servant Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization C Wayne and Patricia J Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C Wayne and Patricia J Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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