· Private foundation
Charles H Miller Charitable 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ROOTS AND WINGS INC | $25,000 |
| WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC | $20,000 |
| C&O CANAL TRUST | $20,000 |
| MODERN CLASSROOMS | $15,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS | $15,000 |
| ALICE FURGUSON FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CITY OF BLOSSOMS INC | $10,000 |
| PAUL'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $7,500 |
| ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FORT DUPONT ICE ARENA | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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
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 +57% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RARoots and Wings Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +94%
- CCC&O CANAL TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +148%
- WLWILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC7× · 2018–2024 · $104k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LCLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +28%
- LCLIVING CLASSROOMS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGIONone grant, 2017 · $7k
- PPPAUL'S PLACE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -55%
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.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
Through our original curriculum design that uses innovative growing spaces on rooftop farms, in school gardens, and public parks - city growers fosters a love of nature and encourages nyc youth to consider their place, agency, and future…
The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…
LILI partners with public schools and cultural institutions to create and deliver experiential learning opportunities for students in order to increase their self-efficacy, build on their intrinsic motivation, and support their scholarly…
To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
Mission: to cultivate the next generation of urban conservationists in richmond, virginia. vision: groundwork rva works with richmond youth to increase environmental, economic, and social well-being in neighborhoods by transforming…
The mission of the nonprofit, nonpartisan close up foundation is to empower young people for a lifetime of active citizenship through civic education programs, professional development for educators, and classroom resources.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Two rivers mission: to nurture a diverse group of students to become lifelong, active participants in their own education, develop a sense of self and community, and become responsible and compassionate members of society.
Kid museum is our region's pioneering experiential museum and educational makerspace. we foster the "mind of a maker" in kids and youth, empowering the next generation with the skills to invent the future.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 Roots and Wings Inc ↗
- Who funds C&O CANAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the National Arboretum ↗
- Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY THROUGH HALLOWED GROUND PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CITY BLOSSOMS INC ↗
- Who funds Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
- Who funds ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Nora Roberts Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Mars Hq Regional Foundation · Hattie M Strong Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles H Miller Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles H Miller Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
- Living Classrooms Foundation: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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