Nebraska · Private foundation
Cy Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $327k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Cy Miller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $32k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $30k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $27k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $27k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $27k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $25k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Growing Place Inc | $52,800 | 9 | 1% |
| Childrens Learning Center Inc | $51,460 | 9 | 1% |
| Kishwaukee Family YMCA | $34,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Three Fires Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #127 | $27,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Ellwood House Association | $20,850 | 9 | 1% |
| Adventure Works of Dekalb County Inc | $19,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Tails Humane Society | $9,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Family Service Agency of Dekalb County Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cy Miller Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Ideal Industries Foundation · Kishwaukee United Way · Horizons Unlimited Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Cy Miller Foundation
- How much does Cy Miller Foundation give?
- Cy Miller Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $31,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cy Miller Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Youth Development (22%), Education (21%).
- Who are Cy Miller Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Growing Place Inc ($53k), Childrens Learning Center Inc ($51k), Kishwaukee Family YMCA ($35k).
- Does Cy Miller Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cy Miller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cy Miller Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dekalb County Community Foundation, Ideal Industries Foundation, Kishwaukee United Way.
- Where is Cy Miller Foundation based?
- Cy Miller Foundation is based in NE.
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