How much does Diane and Ron Miller Fund give?

Diane and Ron Miller Fund reported 14 grants totaling $2,332,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Diane and Ron Miller Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), International (13%), Food & Nutrition (12%).

Who are Diane and Ron Miller Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Halo Trust (Usa) Inc ($1.3M), Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation ($1.1M), San Francisco Symphony ($1.0M).

Does Diane and Ron Miller Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Diane and Ron Miller Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Diane and Ron Miller Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.

Where is Diane and Ron Miller Fund based?

Diane and Ron Miller Fund is based in CA.

Diane and Ron Miller Fund

Diane and Ron Miller Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Diane and Ron Miller Fund

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.

$2.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.4M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$9.1MInternational$2.2MFood & Nutrition$1.9MAnimals$1.1MEducation$779kHuman Services$595kHealth$257kPhilanthropy$110kOther$0

02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k7 grants · $113k
$50k–250k5 grants · $610k
$250k+2 grants · $1.6M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$67M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$1,360,000
WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM	$250,000
THE HALO TRUST	$200,000
FEED THE CHILDREN	$160,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$100,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH	$100,000
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN	$50,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$25,000
LIFT UP (CO FOOD BANK)	$20,000
BEYOND EMANCIPATION	$20,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA SOUTH	$15,000
ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER	$12,500
EPACENTER ARTS	$10,000
FIRST STAR INC	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14M · 50 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+7%

Still filing today

58%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

TH
THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +179%
JG
JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
3× · 2019–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +61%
Feeding America
4× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +40%

Funded once

SF
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -5%
EM
EISENHOWER MEMORIAL COMMISSION
one grant, 2018 · $100k
EM
EISENHOWER MUSEUM
one grant, 2017 · $100k

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

—

Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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

52 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. 52 of the 84 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/52

Grantees still filing

32/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,674,129Arts & Culture$2,476,031International$2,210,194Animals$1,085,177Food & Nutrition$1,035,000Health$527,185Human Services$236,081

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.

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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA17.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation

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 Diane and Ron Miller Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diane and Ron Miller Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

19report 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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