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Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$393k
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$434kEducation$321kReligion$162kHuman Services$133kRecreation & Sports$118kHousing & Shelter$77kCivil Rights$74kEmployment$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k48 grants · $160k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $233k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGIDS PATH$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON - MEMORIAL FUN$18,000
HEALTHNET FOUNDATION$15,000
DIOCESE OF VENICE$15,000
MIAMI VALLEY MEALS$15,000
OUR LADY OF MERCY$10,000
ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS$10,000
BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE$10,000
KIND$10,000
NATIONAL OVERIAN CANCER COALITION$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W NC$10,000
JOSEPHINUM ACADEMY$10,000
THE BOOK FAIR FOUNDATION$10,000
BOCA GRANDE DISASTER FUND$10,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAREYES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER: $2k → 10%FREEDOM RIDE: $2k → 13%HOPE HOUSE MISSION: $5k → 12%CAREYES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $7k → 12%CAREYES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LITERACY CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA: $1k → 9%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $7k → 17%NEW HOPE PROJECT: $8k → 14%BUILDING BRIDGES: $5k → 14%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $3k → 14%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $500 → 14%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $500 → 14%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $200 → 14%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $5k → 16%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $200 → 14%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $200 → 14%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $200 → 14%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $200 → 14%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $200 → 14%HANNAH'S TREASURE CHEST: $3k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $10k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $10k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $10k → 14%HOMEFUL: $8k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $4k → 14%HOMEFUL: $3k → 14%CLOTHES THAT WORK: $2k → 14%OASIS HOUSE: $5k → 14%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $5k → 14%HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $4k → 14%HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
KY
KS
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 79 repeat orgs$497k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
61

Total granted

$1.4M
$340k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+26%

Still filing today

42%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • BG
    BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $118k · revenue +450%
  • CT
    CLOTHES THAT WORK
    5× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +164%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Central Texasgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +49%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • OS
    OAKGROVE SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -85%
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.

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Hospice of Miami County Inc

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.…

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Lifecare Hospice

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.

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3
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

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…

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4
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

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.

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5
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
6
Hospice of Central Ohio

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…

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7
Catholic Palliative Care Services Inc

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…

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8
Mercy Health

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…

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9
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

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.

Health
10
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

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…

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Hospice of Fayette County Inc

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.

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Ohio Living Holdings

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Easter Seals Miami Valley; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
53/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON - MEMORIAL FUN: $107,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON - MEMORIAL FUNHEALTHNET FOUNDATION: $105,000 · OtherHEALTHNET FOUNDATIONST PATRICKS CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherKIND: $46,000 · Other+111 more: $995,550 · Other+111 moreBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC: $117,800 · HealthBOCA GRANDE…BRIGID'S PATH INC: $25,000 · HealthBRIGID'S PA…The Bridge Corp: $16,500 · HealthThe Bridge …NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC: $10,000 · Health+5 more: $19,900 · Health+5 moreCLOTHES THAT WORK: $35,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesCAREYES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOMEFULL: $10,500 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE PROJECT INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $6,526 · Human ServicesELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER INC: $5,400 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAffecting Community Transformation: $5,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING BRIDGES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBOR HOUSE: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationTHE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $17,500 · EducationOAKGROVE SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationThe Boca Grande Preschool Inc: $7,900 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: $7,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationFriends of the Castle Inc: $5,000 · EducationTHE CHATFIELD EDGE: $4,500 · Education+2 more: $7,800 · EducationMISSION OF MARY COOPERATIVE: $27,000 · ReligionCISE: $12,000 · ReligionONE MORE SOUL: $27,000 · Civil RightsProKids: $10,000 · Civil RightsMIAMI VALLEY MEALS INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOODBANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $5,500 · Food & NutritionHOUSE OF BREAD: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,304,050Health$189,200Human Services$144,926Education$129,200Religion$39,000Civil Rights$37,000Food & Nutrition$35,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC: $117,800 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCLOTHES THAT WORK: $35,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGRANT US HOPE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE MORE SOUL: $27,000 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetMISSION OF MARY COOPERATIVE: $27,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBRIGID'S PATH INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Bridge Corp: $16,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCAREYES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetOAKGROVE SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED REHABILITATION SERVICES OF GREATER DAYTON: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCISE: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL EASTER SEALS MIAMI VALLEY: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VICTORY PROJECT LLC: $10,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHOMEFULL: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAsheville GreenWorks: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetProKids: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boca Grande Preschool Inc: $7,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER WEST: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC: $6,526 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISPACE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetST MARY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER INC: $5,400 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBRADFORD OHIO RAILROAD MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetHOUSE OF BREAD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA TIGER RESCUE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the Castle Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAffecting Community Transformation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budget
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.

  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds CLOTHES THAT WORK ↗
  • Who funds GRANT US HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ONE MORE SOUL ↗
  • Who funds MISSION OF MARY COOPERATIVE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Dayton Foundation DepositoryOH55.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 162 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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