· Private foundation
Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k14 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $276k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| PROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| 412 FOOD RESCUE INC | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH | $10,948 |
| CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| WILKINSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT CORP | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH | $10,000 |
| RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| Jewish Family and Children's SErvice | $10,000 |
| HELLO NEIGHBOR | $10,000 |
| HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| LIFE'S WORK OF WESTERN PA | $10,000 |
| GLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERVICES | $10,000 |
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, $990k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +35% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTE6× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +57%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +13%
- HIHAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- TRTHREE RIVERS WORKFORCE INVESTMENTone grant, 2018 · $20k
- TUTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERNone grant, 2020 · $20k
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRALone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Provide programs to help individuals and/or families achieve self-sufficiency.
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
To increase awareness about poverty and to promote comprehensive approaches to eliminate conditions that cause poverty and improve the quality of life in communities throughout the service area.
To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.
We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hosanna House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fineview Citizens Council. 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 118 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 CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GROW PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WILKINSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATSON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENT ↗
- Who funds ANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds NEW CENTURY CAREERS ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Angels Place Inc ↗
- Who funds HELLO NEIGHBOR ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYLINKS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE BRADLEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Pittsburgh Project ↗
- Who funds Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Computer Reach ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Massey Charitable Trust · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Allegheny Foundation · The Buhl Foundation
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 Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.