· Private foundation
Helene K Miller Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation Inc | $3,500 |
| Baltimore Hebrew Congregation | $3,500 |
| Kennedy Krieger Insitute Foundation | $1,000 |
| B'nai Brith Youth Organization | $1,000 |
| National Park Foundation | $1,000 |
| Dementia Society of America | $1,000 |
| Miracle League of Palm Beach County | $1,000 |
| Lake Roland Nature Center | $1,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $1,000 |
| Chizuk Amuno Congregation | $1,000 |
| Beloved Asheville | $1,000 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $1,000 |
| Lutherville Timonium Recreation Council | $500 |
| Maryland Zoo of Baltimore | $500 |
| Baltimore Humane Society | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of your 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 +30% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TCTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +56%
- KBKENDALL BURROWS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +30%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $9k
- ICInternational Committee of the Red Crossone grant, 2022 · $3k
- FOFriend of the Israel Defense Forcesone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial 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 28 years old; the field is 14. 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 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 69 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 THE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENDALL BURROWS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds COVENANT GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds Lutherville Timonium Recreation Council ↗
- Who funds LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS ↗
- Who funds THERE GOES MY HERO INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · David W Buck Family Foundation Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Verizon Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
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 Helene K 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation 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.