Michigan · Private foundation
Howard Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $280,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 62
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Howard Miller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $962k | 2% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $944k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $1.1M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $928k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $875k | 2% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $948k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 62 | $838k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City on a Hill Ministries | $213,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Grand Rapids Art Museum | $205,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Words of Hope Inc | $180,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Community Action House | $163,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Van Andel Institute | $162,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $160,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Bread for the World Institute | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holland | $140,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Dallas Theological Seminary | $140,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ready for School | $130,000 | 9 | 3% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard Miller Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Frey Foundation
How this is measured
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About Howard Miller Foundation
- How much does Howard Miller Foundation give?
- Howard Miller Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $1,147,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 62 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Howard Miller Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (20%), Education (16%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Howard Miller Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City on a Hill Ministries ($213k), Grand Rapids Art Museum ($205k), Words of Hope Inc ($180k).
- Does Howard Miller Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard Miller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Howard Miller Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc, Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc, Grand Rapids Community Foundation.
- Where is Howard Miller Foundation based?
- Howard Miller Foundation is based in MI.
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