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Francis G Miller & Betty J Miller Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$336k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$351kHealth$295kRecreation & Sports$286kHuman Services$236kArts & Culture$229kHousing & Shelter$139kEnvironment$134kPublic Benefit$106kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $166k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREEDOM HOUSE$100,000
INSPIRE CONTINUING CARE$40,000
HAMMOND HENRY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$35,000
Individual grant recipient$28,650
GENESEO HIGH SCHOOL$15,124
Individual grant recipient$15,000
GENESEO MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING$12,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER HENRY COUNTY NFP$10,000
GENESEO COMMUNITY CHEST$10,000
AISLE OF FLAGS$4,500
AG ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FFA$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,750
Individual grant recipient$3,750
Individual grant recipient$3,750
Individual grant recipient$3,750
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Inspre Continuing Care: $60k → 9%INSPIRE CONTINUING CARE: $40k → 9%Inspre Continuing Care: $25k → 9%Inspire Continuing Care: $25k → 9%Inspire Continuing Care: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 42 repeat orgs$463k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
33

Total granted

$1.6M
$387k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+51%

Still filing today

19%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HH
    HAMMOND-HENRY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $285k · revenue +28%
  • IC
    INSPIRE CONTINUING CARE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +32%
  • FH
    FREEDOM HOUSE INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $121k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • GY
    Geneseo Youth Baseball Inc co James Mickley
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • HC
    Henry County Humane Society
    one grant, 2023 · $52k · revenue +8%
  • GH
    Geneseo High School Vocational Department
    one grant, 2021 · $32k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Henry County Housing Development Group Inc

Provide housing, management and tenant services to low income families, senior citizens and disabled.

Housing & Shelter
2
Humane Society of Genesee County

To provide services to homeless animals

Animals
3
Geneseo Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Geneseo Chamber of Commerce

Provide Opportunities for members to promote their business, develop new relationships, and increase their visibility. Host several special events each year for the public to promote business members and the City of Geneseo. The…

Unclassified
5
Genesis Housing Development Corporation

Genesis Housing Development Corporations mission is the re-neighboring for the communities on the near south side of Chicago through developing single and multi-family low to moderate income housing projects, and educating the public with…

Housing & Shelter
6
Henry County Helping Hand Inc

To promote community welfare.

7
Genesis House Inc

To promote the general welfare of victims of domestic and sexual violence by providing shelter, goods and services while helping them find safety in their lives and the self-sufficiency and healing needed to become independent and to…

8
Henry County Humane Society

It is our mission to not only protect the lives of the animals, but to ensure the safety of our constiuents as well by caring for and re-homing animals that would otherwise be forgotten and dismissed. it is our duty to provide services…

Animals
9
Humane Society of Monroe County Il

The organization rescues animals and cares for them until they can find them qualified homes.

Animals
10
Geneseo Groveland Emergency Food Pantry Inc

Food Pantry

Food & Nutrition
11
Genesee Health Plan

To provide health care coverage for low-income, uninsured residents of genesee county

Health
12
Geneseo Historical Association

Maintain buildings and do various improvements to keep buildings up tohistorical standards and show museum to public and school groups.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geneseo Community Chest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Antique Engine Tractor Assoc Inc. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 88 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Freedom House - co Michael Zerneck — $230,047 · OtherFreedom House - co Michael ZerneckANTIQUE ENGINE TRACTOR ASSOC INC — $120,000 · OtherANTIQUE ENGINE TRACTOR ASSOC INCGeneseo Public Library — $115,500 · OtherGeneseo Public LibraryGeneseo Youth Baseball Inc co James Mickley — $100,000 · OtherGeneseo Youth Baseball Inc co James MickleyGENESEO HIGH SCHOOL — $70,712 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $66,000 · OtherFriends of Hennepin Canal co Gary Wagle — $60,000 · Other+75 more — $638,504 · Other+75 moreHAMMOND-HENRY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $285,000 · HealthHAMMOND-HENRY H…INSPIRE CONTINUING CARE — $175,000 · Human ServicesINSPIRE C…FREEDOM HOUSE INC — $121,000 · Housing & ShelterHenry County Humane Society — $52,000 · AnimalsGENESEO COMMUNITY CHEST INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyBRAVEHEART CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $34,683 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,400,763Health$285,000Human Services$175,000Housing & Shelter$121,000Animals$52,000Philanthropy$40,000Crime & Legal$34,683

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAMMOND-HENRY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $285,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetINSPIRE CONTINUING CARE — $175,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE INC — $121,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetANTIQUE ENGINE TRACTOR ASSOC INC — $120,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetHenry County Humane Society — $52,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetGENESEO COMMUNITY CHEST INC — $40,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetBRAVEHEART CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $34,683 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGENESEO PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $33,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGENESEO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGENESEO-ATKINSON FOOD PANTRY — $5,814 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGENESEO DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSETH ERNST MEMORIAL SOCCER SLAM — $4,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER HENRY COUNTY — $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HAMMOND-HENRY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds INSPIRE CONTINUING CARE
  • Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE INC
  • Who funds ANTIQUE ENGINE TRACTOR ASSOC INC
  • Who funds Henry County Humane Society
  • Who funds GENESEO COMMUNITY CHEST INC
  • Who funds BRAVEHEART CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER
  • Who funds GENESEO PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GENESEO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Geneseo FoundationIL37× affinity15 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Geneseo Foundation · Geneseo Communications Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Francis G Miller & Betty J Miller Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Francis G Miller & Betty J Miller Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Francis G Miller & Betty J Miller Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 88 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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