· Private foundation
Catt Family Foundation Joal C Miller
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of CATT FAMILY FOUNDATION JOAL C MILLER’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 $10k15 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELLA VISTA GARDEN CLUB | $33,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WINDCLUB HAWAII | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BRECKENRIDGE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CTR | $8,624 |
| TURPENTINE CREEK WILDLIFE REFUGUE | $5,000 |
| COMPASSION & CHOICES | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUND | $5,000 |
| WALTON ARTS CENTER COUNCIL INC | $1,322 |
| PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,050 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EAST AURORA | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| GLIDING STARS OF WNY | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +22% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +56%
- SJSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +22%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- HKHAWAII KAI BOAT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $13k
- MVMACULA VISION RESEARCH FOone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 hawaiian humane society works to improve the welfare of animals through animal care, education, legislation, and prevention on the island of oahu. its mission is to promote the human-animal bond and the humane treatment of all animals.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Assistance dogs of hawaii provides mutually beneficial, quality partnerships between dogs and people through which their highest potential can be achieved. assistance dogs of hawaii offers people with disabilities increased independence…
Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
Striving to enhance communications, promote equality and create opportunities for hawaii's blind and visually impaired.
K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Dogs Inc mission is to transform lives by creating and nurturing extraordinary partnerships between people and dogs.
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui United Way and the most unlike its peers is Bella Vista Animal Shelter Inc. 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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 49 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 SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSETS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds Sheep Dog Impact Assistance ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends Of Kailua High School ↗
- Who funds SEEQS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sail2Change ↗
- Who funds WALTON ARTS CENTER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST AURORA INC ↗
- Who funds BELLA VISTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLA VISTA ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Catt Family Foundation Joal C Miller 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.