· Private foundation
Cy Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GROWING PLACE | $6,500 |
| CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER | $6,500 |
| KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| ADVENTURE WORKS Of DEKALB | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $3,500 |
| ELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $3,100 |
| TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGTHE GROWING PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +26%
- CLCHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +6%
- KFKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- KSKISHHEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
At dcel, we believe in the uniqueness of each child. our childcare experience promotes the social, physical, emotional and spiritual growth of each child in a safe and developmentally appropriate environment. children are given…
To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.
DEDC was created to assist in the development of programs & projects that address specific needs and contribute to improving East St. Louis.
The Co-Op Preschool provides early childhood educational programs in Lombard, IL. We serve local families with high-quality programming for children from 15 months to 5 years old. The Co-Op Preschool helps children build the skills they…
To provide a variety of programs in the chicago area to help children, parents, and adults achieve greater inner well-being, sustain closer relationships, and have more pleasurable family, school, and work lives.
Our mission is to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities. The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley is a community centered association dedicated to building a healthy spirit, mind and body for all people, while maintaining an…
Our mission is to prepare the children of our community for the road ahead. We take a whole-child approach that blends personalized care plans with physical play, social development, and academic readiness.
Children's corner is a full day child care center that gives each child a warm environment that encourages the development of socialization skills, independence, and a positive self-image.
To help families and schools to develop healthy, well-rounded young people by providing enriching activities, leadership models, a place of pride and sense of commmunity.
Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 THE GROWING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 ↗
- Who funds ELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cy Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cy Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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