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Charles E & Carol J Miller Family at a glance

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Charles E & Carol J Miller Family

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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$181kHuman Services$112kEducation$96kYouth Development$89kReligion$37kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$25kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$818k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BOULDER ALANO CLUB$10,000
RISE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
FLATIRONS COMMUNITY CHURCH$8,000
ANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES$6,000
CHERISH CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATI$5,500
DENTAL AIDE$5,000
COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
THE INNOVATION SCHOOL$3,000
ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION$3,000
DENVER RESCUE MISSION$2,000
NORTHERN COLORADO FIRENDS OF FERAL$2,000
THE DAWSON FUND$2,000
HUMANE COLORADO$1,000
THE TREEHOUSE INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $8k → 17%MADE 4 ME: $5k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $5k → 8%RISE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 7%FREEDOM REVIVED: $5k → 10%KIDS SOAR: $10k → 20%CHARITY WATER: $6k → 17%THE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $5k → 16%MADE FOR ME: $5k → 8%MADE FOR ME: $3k → 8%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 12%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $10k → 9%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $10k → 9%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $10k → 9%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $8k → 9%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $10k → 7%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $8k → 9%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $7k → 7%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $6k → 9%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $5k → 9%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $5k → 9%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
KS
AR
NC
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$535k · 26 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
33

Total granted

$535k
$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+8%

Still filing today

62%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +57%
  • CC
    COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +34%
  • BA
    Boulder Alano Club
    6× · 2018–2025 · $50k · 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%
  • KS
    KIDS SOAR
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -1%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Hope and Home

Hope & home creates ways for amazing people to change the lives of children in foster care. as a nondenominational christian charity, hope & home trains, certifies, and actively supports foster families across the state of colorado.…

Human Services
4
Raise the Future

Every young person is connected to at least one strong, stable, and caring adult who meets their unique needs.

Human Services
5
Denver Children's Home

Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.

Health
6
Developmental Fx Developmental & Fragile X Resource

The mission of dfx is to prepare children with developmental differences for a bright future of engaged belonging by equipping them, their families, therapists, and teachers via innovative programming in colorado and around the world.

Health
7
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
8
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…

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9
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
10
Colorado Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

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11
Adoption Options

Adoption options is a non-profit,colorado corporation, dedicated to providing the state of colorado with a range of private, non-secretarian child placement services.

Human Services
12
Mount St Vincent Home Inc

As part of intermountain health, mount saint vincent partners with children and families to heal beyond trauma into a healthy and hopeful future.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
25/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtheriEmpathize: $14,000 · Other+33 more: $157,500 · Other+33 moreCOLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC: $62,000 · Human ServicesCOLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INCDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER: $17,000 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITI…CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INCMade4me: $13,000 · Human ServicesMade4meKIDS SOAR: $10,000 · Human ServicesKIDS SOARIMAGINE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesIMAGINE FOUNDATIONRISE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRISE FOUNDATION INCATTENTION INC: $6,000 · Human Services+5 more: $22,000 · Human Services+5 moreBoulder Alano Club: $50,000 · 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 · HealthDENTAL AID: $5,000 · HealthLUZ DE VIDA FORMERLY CORAZON DE ESPERANZA INC: $63,000 · InternationalLUZ DE VI…Days For Girls International: $4,000 · InternationalDays For …FLATIRONS ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationTHE INNOVATION SCHOOL: $3,000 · EducationALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · 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: $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$327,000Human Services$164,000Health$146,500International$67,000Education$28,500Philanthropy$19,103Youth Development$16,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUZ DE VIDA FORMERLY CORAZON DE ESPERANZA INC: $63,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetCOLLEGIATE CROSSINGS INC: $62,000 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetBoulder Alano Club: $50,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetPROJECT CAMP INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFLATIRONS ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetiEmpathize: $14,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMade4me: $13,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSAWA-SOMEONE A WORLD AWAY: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHOPECAM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKIDS SOAR: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRISE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,103 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget4those: $6,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATTENTION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFREEDOM REVIVED: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWICHITA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARADOX SPORTS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetABILITY FOUND CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPREAD THE JOY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetDays For Girls International: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN PANTRY AND THRIFT INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INNOVATION SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetWELD ELVES: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TREE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeAhead: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 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 FLATIRONS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CRITICALLY LOVED INC ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Courageous Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds iEmpathize ↗
  • Who funds Made4me ↗
  • Who funds SAWA-SOMEONE A WORLD AWAY ↗
  • Who funds HOPECAM INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS SOAR ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LONGMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds 4those ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds ATTENTION 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Longmont Communit…AEC TrustThe Denver FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charles E & Carol J Miller Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles E & Carol J Miller Family. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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