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Jack Miller Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.0M
Granted FY2022
88
Grants FY2022
12
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
03Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Philanthropy$2.3MEducation$322kInternational$232kHealth$192kArts & Culture$160kCommunity Improvement$125kReligion$115kEmployment$75kOther$0
02FY2022 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 88 grants below total $3,843,550 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,032,950 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $189,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k32 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $799k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$936k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History$1,600,000
Jewish United Fund Of Metropolitan Chicago$275,000
Goldie B. Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative$213,000
The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History$140,000
Leading Edge Alliance, Inc.$125,000
Jewish Funders Network$125,000
The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy$125,000
Jewish United Fund Of Metropolitan Chicago$100,000
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Inc.$75,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$60,000
Holocaust Memorial Foundation Of Illinois Inc$50,000
Interfaithfamily.com, Inc.$50,000
The Shalem Foundation$48,000
Slingshot Fund, Inc.$27,500
The Society of the Four Arts, Inc.$27,500
02Your field

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.

1
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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4
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
5
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
10
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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12
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Theater CompaniesCollege Foundation SupportCommunity Literacy TutoringDomestic Violence and Sexua…Local History MuseumsGovernment Accountability &…Public Library SupportWomen's Empowerment Organiz…Developmental Disabilities …Community Arts CentersCommunity Hospital SystemsChildhood Cancer SupportEnvironmental Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%4%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr22%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%59%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr14%8%35–55yr22%15%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/81
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,278

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.

03the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 85 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
52/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JACK MILLER CENTER FOR TEACHING AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND — $1,740,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JACK MILLER CENTER FOR TEACHING AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AN…JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $375,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $125,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK+5 more — $73,500 · PhilanthropyGoldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative — $213,000 · EducationGoldie B Wol…LEADING EDGE ALLIANCEINC — $125,000 · EducationLEADING EDGE…REDWOOD SCHOOLS INC — $25,000 · EducationREDWOOD SCHO…+8 more — $44,600 · Education+8 moreFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $75,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $60,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · InternationalITREK INC — $25,000 · InternationalTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC — $25,000 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $25,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED — $10,000 · International+3 more — $7,000 · InternationalHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $27,500 · Arts & CultureTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION — $16,500 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $13,750 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $7,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $17,750 · Arts & CultureThe Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy — $125,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center — $25,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $22,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $7,500 · HealthCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES — $25,000 · OtherCHICAGO W…Northwestern Memorial Foundation — $25,000 · OtherNorthwest…THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $15,000 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 · OtherREVOLUTION WORKSHOP — $25,000 · OtherREVOLUTIO…YOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC — $25,000 · OtherYOUTHBUIL…The Shalem Foundation — $48,000 · OtherThe Shale…THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $20,500 · OtherTHE SHELT…READING POWER INC — $25,000 · OtherREADING P…+21 more — $112,450 · Other+21 moreINTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC — $50,000 · ReligionJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES INC — $25,000 · ReligionMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC — $25,000 · ReligionHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · ReligionMANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $10,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$2,313,500Education$407,600International$272,000Arts & Culture$190,000Health$189,500Other$335,950Religion$135,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JACK MILLER CENTER FOR TEACHING AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND — $1,740,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $375,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGoldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative — $213,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEADING EDGE ALLIANCEINC — $125,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy — $125,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation — $48,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSLINGSHOT FUND INC — $27,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $27,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREVOLUTION WORKSHOP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetITREK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREADING POWER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREDWOOD SCHOOLS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $20,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION — $16,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $13,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Circle of Service Fou…Jewish Federation of …The Marcus Foundation…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Fede…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Jewish Communal FundThe Chicago Community…Jewish Federation of …Donors Trust IncJewish Community Foun…Hochberg Family Found…
Circle of Service FoundationIL27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Hochberg Family 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.

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How do I get to Jack Miller Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jack Miller Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $4.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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