· Private foundation
Herman and Frieda L Miller Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k31 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TSNE MISSIONWORKS | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC | $80,000 |
| JUSTICE AT WORK | $80,000 |
| MA COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK (MCAN) | $75,000 |
| FJC A FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS | $75,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS BUDGET & POLICY CENTER | $75,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC | $70,000 |
| JOIN FOR JUSTICE | $65,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION | $65,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON INTERFAITH ORGANIZATION | $65,000 |
| CITY LIFE VIDA URBANA | $65,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC | $60,000 |
| SAGE | $60,000 |
| LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE | $60,000 |
| MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN | $60,000 |
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, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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.
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 +89% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $915k · revenue +0%
THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $810k · revenue +148%- JFJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $695k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- MCMASS COALITION OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH INCone grant, 2019 · $105k
- MCMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK MCANone grant, 2024 · $75k
- MCMA COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORKone grant, 2017 · $75k
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 mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Courageous Parents Networkinc. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
96 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. 96 of the 147 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 Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC ↗
- Who funds JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN REVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Brazilian Worker Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRO PRESENTE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Voter Education Network Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM JUSTICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE 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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Barr Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Fish Family Foundation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Health Resources in Action 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 Herman and Frieda L 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Youthbuild Global Inc — 69% of income from government
- Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp — 68% of income from government
- Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
- Community Action Agency of Somerville — 49% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Essex County Community Organization — 15% of income from government
- Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc — 13% of income from government
- Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Housing Partnership Network Inc — 10% of income from government
- South Boston En Accion Inc — 10% of income from government
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Brazilian Worker Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc — 5% of income from government
- North Shore Worker's Community Fund Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Neighborhood Developers Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Central Square Theater Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Somerville Community Corporation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
- Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
- Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
- Justice at Work 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.