· Private foundation
Frank A Miller Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sun Valley Foundation | $17,000 |
| ST Thomas Church | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| KBS Foundation | $3,640 |
| MSCL | $2,500 |
| Little Birthday Angeles | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2022–2024 · $15k
- DDHS3× · 2020–2022 · $15k
- MMSCL4× · 2020–2024 · $13k
Funded once
- SFSUNS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $7k
- SVSun Valley Alumni Associationone grant, 2020 · $6k
- PMPersonalized Medicine Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To facilitate ice sports for the youth of silver bow county and the surronding communities.
Create and cultivate ice skating in jackson hole and surrounding areas
Supporting, developing, and training colorado youth for national and/or international competition in ice hockey.
To promote youth sports in the fairbanks area.
To promote the sport of hockey in the douglas, wyoming area.
To enrich the lives of youth with diabetes
Seattle junior hockey association (sjha) focuses on the growth and development of hockey players and young individuals in a safe and positive environment.
To provide the greater Gallatin valley community fun and affordable ice skating opportunities which include hockey, figure skating, and recreational ice skating for the citizens young and old, and of all skill levels.
Through alpine ski racing, we develop and inspire a community of young athletes who strive for excellence, compete with integrity, and pursue a lifelong love of skiing.
High sierra lacrosse league supports and promotes youth lacrosse in northern nevada and the tahoe-truckee area
Youth and adult hockey organization promoting the sport of ice hockey in gunnison, co.
The salmon hockey association is a volunteer based group committed to bringing the joy of skating and hockey to the children and their families in the salmon area. we strive to provide a quality skating facility, safe recreational skating…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sawtooth Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hospice and Palliative Care-Ko. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 26% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 28 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SUN VALLEY JUNIOR HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds SAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HAILEY ICE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice and Palliative Care-Ko ↗
- Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WITH WOLVES LTD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Frank A Miller Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.