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Howard Miller Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.7MEducation$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MReligion$992kArts & Culture$911kHealth$564kYouth Development$322kFood & Nutrition$290kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k53 grants · $792k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$13,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLL-ZEEL$280,000
RESTHAVEN CARE COMMUNITY$63,000
SALVATION ARMY$41,000
MARY FREE BED REHAB HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$35,000
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY$25,000
READY FOR SCHOOL$25,000
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HOPE COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES$25,000
WORLD VISION$20,000
HOLLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT OFFICE$20,000
WESTERN SEMINARY$20,000
WORDS OF HOPE$20,000
VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE$18,000
BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE$16,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $593k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $13k → 10%Center for Women in Transitiion: $20k → 8%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $13k → 10%RESILIENCE: $13k → 8%Center for Women in Transition: $13k → 10%RESILIENCE: $13k → 8%Center for Women in Transition: $10k → 8%Center for Women in Transition: $10k → 8%CAMP SUNSHINE: $10k → 8%Center for Women in Transition: $10k → 8%CAMP SUNSHINE: $10k → 8%Camp Sunshine: $9k → 8%CAMP SUNSHINE: $9k → 8%CAMP SUNSHINE: $9k → 8%Camp Sunshine: $8k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%Family Hope Foundation: $9k → 8%Good Samaritan Ministries: $20k → 10%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $9k → 8%FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION: $9k → 8%Family Hope Foundation: $8k → 8%Family Hope Foundation: $8k → 8%Family Hope Foundation: $8k → 8%Family Hope Foundation: $8k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $13k → 10%PARKVIEW ADULT FOSTER CARE: $10k → 8%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $13k → 10%Hospice of Holland: $13k → 10%PARKVIEW ADULT FOSTER CARE: $10k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $13k → 10%Parkview Adult Foster Care: $9k → 8%PARKVIEW ADULT FOSTER CARE: $9k → 8%PARKVIEW ADULT FOSTER CARE: $9k → 8%Good Samaritan Ministries: $13k → 10%Parkview Adult Foster Care: $8k → 8%Parkview Adult Foster Care: $8k → 8%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $13k → 10%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $13k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $13k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $13k → 10%HOSPICE OF HOLLAND: $13k → 10%Hospice of Holland: $12k → 10%Hospice of Holland: $12k → 10%Hospice of Holland: $12k → 10%Hospice of Holland Inc: $12k → 10%Good Samaritan Ministries: $10k → 10%Good Samaritan Ministries: $10k → 10%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 77 repeat orgs$359k to everyone else

77 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
16

Total granted

$8.2M
$359k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+118%

Still filing today

44%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CO
    CITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $213k · revenue +95%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +506%
  • VA
    VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Foundation of Holland-Zeeland
    one grant, 2020 · $107k
  • PR
    PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +118%
  • TW
    THE WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $65k
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.

1
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
2
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Global Scholars

Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.

—
6
Kalamazoo College

The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…

Education
7
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
8
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
9
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
10
Grove City Christian Academy

To assist christian parents in their task of bringing up children to the glory of god, by means of instruction in the classical disciplines under the universal lordship of christ.

Education
11
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
12
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wings of Mercy Inc. 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

37 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. 37 of the 95 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLL-ZEEL: $1,498,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLL-ZEELBethany Christian Services Inc: $275,000 · OtherGrand Rapids Symphony: $225,000 · Other+67 more: $4,195,000 · Other+67 moreDallas Theological Seminary: $140,000 · EducationDallas The…READY FOR SCHOOL: $130,000 · EducationREADY FOR …HOPE COLLEGE: $125,000 · EducationHOPE COLLE…Society for Christian Instruction Zeeland: $105,000 · EducationSociety fo…Aquinas College: $103,000 · EducationAquinas Co…CALVIN UNIVERSITY: $103,000 · EducationCALVIN UNI…FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $39,000 · EducationGrandville Calvin Christian Schools: $37,500 · EducationRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE: $112,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC: $109,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $103,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $77,000 · Human ServicesPARKVIEW ADULT FOSTER CARE HOME INC: $77,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SUNSHINE: $77,000 · Human ServicesWINGS OF MERCY INC: $37,000 · Human ServicesGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $205,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $109,000 · Arts & CultureHOLLAND AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $77,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD VISION INC: $210,000 · InternationalBread for the World Institute: $150,000 · InternationalCITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES: $213,000 · ReligionGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $83,000 · ReligionClear Bible Inc: $15,000 · ReligionVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $162,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC: $19,500 · Philanthropy
Other$6,193,500Education$782,500Human Services$592,500Arts & Culture$391,000International$360,000Religion$311,000Philanthropy$181,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES: $213,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $210,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $205,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE: $163,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $162,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $150,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND: $140,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $140,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetREADY FOR SCHOOL: $130,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE: $112,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $109,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC: $109,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSociety for Christian Instruction Zeeland: $105,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $103,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetAquinas College: $103,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $103,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $103,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY: $97,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $83,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $77,000 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetHOLLAND AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $77,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS: $77,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetPARKVIEW ADULT FOSTER CARE HOME INC: $77,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE: $77,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN TRAILS CAMP: $74,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $39,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S: $38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGrandville Calvin Christian Schools: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF MERCY INC: $37,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetODC NETWORK: $31,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER OTTAWA COUNTY UNITED WAY: $21,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC: $19,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClear Bible Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budget70 X 7 LIFE RECOVERY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 CITY ON A HILL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
  • Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF HOLLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds Society for Christian Instruction Zeeland ↗
  • Who funds GRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Aquinas College ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Grand Haven Area Comm…Grand Rapids Communit…Jim and Ginger Jurrie…John and Judy Spoelho…Edgar and Elsa Prince…Douglas & Sandra Deko…De Witt Families Cond…Peter C & Emajean Coo…Larry and Karen Mulde…Dick and Betsy Devos …Frey Foundation
The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area IncMI61× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Howard Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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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    How do I get to Howard Miller Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Howard Miller 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 95 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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