· Private foundation
Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of GERALD M & CAROLE A MILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $160k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $233k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGIDS PATH | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON - MEMORIAL FUN | $18,000 |
| MIAMI VALLEY MEALS | $15,000 |
| DIOCESE OF VENICE | $15,000 |
| HEALTHNET FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE DISASTER FUND | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL OVERIAN CANCER COALITION | $10,000 |
| KIND | $10,000 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF MERCY | $10,000 |
| JOSEPHINUM ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| THE BOOK FAIR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY BIKE MS | $10,000 |
| ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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
- BGBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC8× · 2018–2025 · $118k · revenue +127%
- CTCLOTHES THAT WORK5× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +164%
DUKE UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CCCatholic Charities of Central Texasgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +49%
- DODIOCESE OF VENICE- FLORIDA DISASTERone grant, 2023 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
The hospice of miami county, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards.…
The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…
Catholic palliative care services, inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of catholic hospice, inc. and under the sponsorship of the archdiocese of miami, provides responsive end-of-life care to patients and families in broward and dade…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Provide home or nursing home care for terminally ill patients and their families. provided education & support to fayette county and surrounding communities about qualify of life issues.
See schedule oto provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. the organization is dedicated to living our mission and keeping…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Easter Seals Miami Valley and the most unlike its peers is Bradford Ohio Railroad Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 162 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 BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES THAT WORK ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRANT US HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MARY COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds ONE MORE SOUL ↗
- Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Central Texas ↗
- Who funds THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Bridge Corp ↗
- Who funds MIAMI VALLEY MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds CAREYES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAKGROVE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
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: Dayton Foundation Depository · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Mathile Family Foundation · Cpps Heritage Mission Fund · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Miami Valley Hospital · The Fred and Alice Wallace Charitable Memorial Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · The CareSource Foundation · Levin Family Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati 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 Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family 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.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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