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Charles E & Carol J Miller Family

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.

$62k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$181kHuman Services$112kEducation$96kYouth Development$89kReligion$37kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$25kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$816k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORAZON DE ESPERANZA$9,000
HELLO NURZE$6,000
4THOSE$6,000
THE BOULDER ALANO CLUB$6,000
COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS$6,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$5,000
CRITICALLY LOVED$3,500
CHRISTIAN ACTION GUILD INC$3,500
PROJECT CAMP INC$3,000
MADE FOR ME$3,000
BRIDGING THE GAPS DYSLEXIA CENTER$2,500
FRONT RANGE FREEDOM RESCUE INC$2,000
BOULDER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$2,000
BEYONDHOME$2,000
HOMEAHEAD$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $8k → 17%MADE FOR ME: $5k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $5k → 8%FREEDOM REVIVED: $5k → 10%KIDS SOAR: $10k → 20%CHARITY WATER: $6k → 17%THE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $5k → 16%MADE 4 ME: $5k → 8%MADE FOR ME: $3k → 8%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $10k → 9%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $10k → 9%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $10k → 9%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $10k → 7%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $8k → 9%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $7k → 7%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $8k → 9%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $6k → 9%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $5k → 9%ATTENTION HOMES: $5k → 12%ATTENTION HOMES: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MI
NY
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CA
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CO
MO
KY
VA
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AR
NC
AL
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$514k · 25 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
26

Total granted

$514k
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+3%

Still filing today

60%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalEducationOther

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

  • LD
    LUZ DE VIDA FORMERLY CORAZON DE ESPERANZA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $63k · revenue +107%
  • CC
    COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +29%
  • BA
    Boulder Alano Club
    5× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • FA
    FLATIRONS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -1%
  • SA
    SAWA-SOMEONE A WORLD AWAY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -81%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hope's Promise Inc

To strengthen families through ethical, christ-centered foster care, adoption, and global orphan care.

Human Services
2
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Wellness Center for Girls
4
The Christmas Box International

The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…

Community Improvement
5
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
6
Pure Imagination Charity

Encouraging generous children to form lifelong friendships with other children who are chronically or terminally ill by sharing experiences. allowing these children to escape hospitals, protocols, intense scheduling and difficult daily…

Human Services
7
Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
8
Special Kids-Special Families Inc

Promote, strengthen, and support individuals with disabilities and their families and caregivers. Our purpose is to provide support services to families who have a family member with a disability in a manner that provides opportunity to…

Health
9
Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children

Part i and part iii, line 1: anchor center for blind children is a nationally recognized leader in teaching children with vision, cortical visual, dual sensory (vision and hearing), and co-occurring disabilities during their most formative…

10
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
11
Chasin a Dream Foundation Inc

To provide individualized, life changing assistance to families with children battling cancer, cystic fibrosis, and other life threatening illnesses.

Human Services
12
Help Autism India Inc

Autism is a severe mental disability that is a very big challenge for children affected and their families (who are the main caregivers). in india, like most developing countries, the disability is not understood well socially and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Revived. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Food Pantries & AssistanceHomeless Services & ShelterAnimal Rescue and AdoptionDevelopmental Disabilities …Child and Family ServicesChristian Youth CampsChristian Missionary Organi…Education Equity Leadership
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%12%<5yr15%20%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr12%5%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%5%<5yr15%18%5–10yr21%39%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr12%1%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,373

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.

04the grantee network

38 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $63,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHRIVE LIFE CENTER — $28,000 · OtherTHRIVE LIFE CENTERCALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — $23,000 · OtherCALVARY BAPTIST CHURCHMIRACLES DIAPER BANK — $14,500 · OtherTHRIVE CHURCH — $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $12,500 · OtherWORLD OF WONDER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $10,000 · OtherHOPECAM INC — $10,000 · OtheriEmpathize — $14,000 · Other+23 more — $107,000 · Other+23 moreCOLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC — $57,000 · Human ServicesCOLLEGIATE CROSSINGS IN…DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER — $17,000 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILIT…CHARITY GLOBAL INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INCMade4me — $13,000 · Human ServicesMade4meIMAGINE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesIMAGINE FOUNDATIONKIDS SOAR — $10,000 · Human ServicesKIDS SOARATTENTION INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM REVIVED — $5,000 · Human ServicesABILITY FOUND CORPORATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesWICHITA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesPARADOX SPORTS — $5,000 · Human ServicesBoulder Alano Club — $40,000 · HealthBoulder Alano ClubPROJECT CAMP INC — $24,500 · HealthPROJECT CAMP INCNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $20,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCL…CRITICALLY LOVED INC — $17,500 · HealthCRITICALLY LOVED INCCourageous Kids Inc — $14,500 · HealthCourageous Kids IncDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer In…SPARK OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthLUZ DE VIDA FORMERLY CORAZON DE ESPERANZA INC — $63,000 · InternationalLUZ DE VID…Days For Girls International — $4,000 · InternationalDays For G…FLATIRONS ACADEMY — $20,000 · EducationBridging the Gaps Dyslexia Center — $2,500 · EducationTHE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,103 · Philanthropy4those — $6,000 · PhilanthropySPREAD THE JOY INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyWELD ELVES — $2,000 · PhilanthropySAWA-SOMEONE A WORLD AWAY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$296,500Human Services$147,000Health$131,500International$67,000Education$22,500Philanthropy$19,103Youth Development$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUZ DE VIDA FORMERLY CORAZON DE ESPERANZA INC — $63,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetCOLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC — $57,000 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetBoulder Alano Club — $40,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetPROJECT CAMP INC — $24,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLATIRONS ACADEMY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRITICALLY LOVED INC — $17,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER — $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCourageous Kids Inc — $14,500 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetiEmpathize — $14,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMade4me — $13,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetIMAGINE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOPECAM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSAWA-SOMEONE A WORLD AWAY — $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS SOAR — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,103 over 1y, 0.2% of budget4those — $6,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetATTENTION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM REVIVED — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetABILITY FOUND CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWICHITA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSPREAD THE JOY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetPARADOX SPORTS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDays For Girls International — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN PANTRY AND THRIFT INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBridging the Gaps Dyslexia Center — $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNEW HOPE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELD ELVES — $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHomeAhead — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 LUZ DE VIDA FORMERLY CORAZON DE ESPERANZA INC
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC
  • Who funds Boulder Alano Club
  • Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
  • Who funds FLATIRONS ACADEMY
  • Who funds CRITICALLY LOVED INC
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER
  • Who funds Courageous Kids Inc
  • Who funds iEmpathize
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC
  • Who funds Made4me
  • Who funds IMAGINE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOPECAM INC
  • Who funds SAWA-SOMEONE A WORLD AWAY
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds KIDS SOAR
  • Who funds THE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds 4those
  • Who funds ATTENTION INC
  • Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO19.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · AEC Trust · The Denver Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Charles E & Carol J Miller Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Charles E & Carol J Miller Family?

Find your warmest path to Charles E & Carol J Miller Family through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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