How much did G WILLARD MILLER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of G WILLARD MILLER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

hospice

2019

hospicemenlo atherton

2020

hospicemenlo atherton

2021

menlo athertonhospice

2022

menlo atherton

2023

menlo atherton

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $73k
$10k–50k10 grants · $123k
$50k–250k3 grants · $230k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$9.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

JOHN MUIR MEDICAL CTR FOUNDATION$100,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$75,000
STANFORD WOMEN'S CANCER CTR$55,000
THE RIEKES CENTER$22,500
ONE (ORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION)$15,000
M-A FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE$15,000
CARONDELET HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
COMMIT FOUNDATION$10,000
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$10,000
REDEEMER SCHOOL$10,000
FRIENDS OF JACLYN FOUNDATION$10,000
GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S FUND$10,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$10,000
PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION$7,500
CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUTE$7,500

02The need

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 (FY23–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.9M · 55 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%

+2%

Still filing today

24%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalReligionOther

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

FT
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +9%
MS
MENLO SCHOOL
7× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +12%
CO
CASA OF SAN MATEO COUNTY
4× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +4%

Funded once

OS
OAKLAND STROKES
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +2%
UP
USC PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED ATHLETIC
one grant, 2018 · $8k
UB
UCLA BRAIN TUMOR CENTER
one grant, 2018 · $1k

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.

San Francisco Friends School

Educating, inspiring, & nurturing girls & boys in the tradition of quaker learning.

Education

Santa Catalina School

An independent school for co-ed students in pre-kindergarten - grade 8 and an all-girls boarding and day school for students in grades 9 - 12.

Education

Theatre Bay Area

Theatre Bay Areas mission is to unite, strengthen, promote and advance the theatre community in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on behalf of the conviction that the performing arts are an essential public good, critical to a healthy…

Arts & Culture

San Francisco State University

To provide private financial support to assist the university in meeting its educational mission.

Education

Marin History Museum

The Marin History Museum is an active, artifact-based institution dedicated to sharing local history with the people of Marin County and beyond.

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CalMatters

To improve Californias democracy by making its government more transparent and accountable and giving Californians the information they need to understand and engage with that government.

Civil Rights

Southern Marin Mothers Organization

The Organizarions strives to provide a supportive, nuturing community for families to share menaingful experiences, fun and fellowship that strenthen family bonds.

Youth Development

Marin Theatre Company

Marin theatre company produces world-class theatre for the county of marin and bay area communities. mtc strives to set a national standard for intimate theatre experiences of the highest quality, featuring provocative plays by passionate…

Arts & Culture

The Parents Club of Palo Alto and Menlo

Educate parents and young children

Human Services

Encinal Sailing Foundation

Philanthropy

San Francisco Association of Realtors

Philanthropy

University of California

To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Menlo-Atherton High School and the most unlike its peers is Fuller Theological Seminary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/18

Grantees still filing

11/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,754,500Education$152,000Human Services$45,500Animals$18,000Crime & Legal$17,500Religion$14,500Recreation & Sports$7,500Arts & Culture$2,000

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.

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.

Bright Funds FoundationCA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bright Funds Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation G WILLARD 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

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~23 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 342066006 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to G Willard Miller Foundation?

Find your warmest path to G Willard Miller Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

G WILLARD MILLER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to G Willard Miller Foundation?

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G WILLARD MILLER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to G Willard Miller Foundation?

More from the funding graph