· Private foundation
James F & Marion L Miller Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k69 grants · $362k
- $10k–50k106 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k56 grants · $4.5M
- $250k+6 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON SYMPHONY | $1,166,667 |
| CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE | $875,000 |
| CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE | $875,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $800,000 |
| PORTLAND OPERA | $400,000 |
| OREGON BALLET THEATRE | $300,000 |
| FOUNDATIONS FOR A BETTER OREGON | $200,000 |
| DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| KIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON | $150,000 |
| REAP | $150,000 |
| BRITT MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL | $130,000 |
| OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (OMSI) | $125,000 |
| LITERARY ARTS INC | $125,000 |
| PROJECT YOUTH | $125,000 |
| SMART READING | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
322 repeat relationships: 207 still active in FY2024, 115 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $388k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +8% · 62% of their budget
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +3%
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING6× · 2017–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +53%
Funded once
- NRNORTHWEST REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $200k
- NRNORTHWEST REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE DISTone grant, 2017 · $200k
- BCBENTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -48%
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.
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.
The mission for the central oregon center for the arts is to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts that brings transformative and diverse cultural performances and experiences to central oregon during all seasons
Oregon Music Festival's mission is the performance, production, and promotion of classical music through orchestral, choral/orchestra, and chamber music.
Portland Youth Theater's primary exempt purpose is to unlock self-discovery in young people through the transformative power of theater. Our programs reach hundreds of kids each week in our venue and in schools throughout our community,…
MusicOregon supports Oregons independent music creators and related professionals through artistic, cultural, educational, and public interest programs. We are committed to empowering creative musical excellence, promoting professional…
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
Enlivening, strengthening, and connecting communities by creating immersive classical music experiences for everyone
We give concerts, workshops and online music classes.
Our mission is to enliven our community by transforming found spaces with bold, theatrical endeavors. We place an emphasis on partnering with local businesses all over PDX to serve as venues for our productions
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
How this is measured
363 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 363 of the 501 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds AVID CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS FOR A BETTER OREGON ↗
- Who funds KIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds REAP INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds Artists Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds EUGENE BALLET COMPANY ↗
- Who funds OREGON CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD ↗
- Who funds KAIROSPDX ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN G SHEDD INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE ARE GREATER THAN ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre ↗
- Who funds Latino Network ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS RAISED ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Teaching Preschool Partners ↗
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 Autzen Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Regional Arts & Culture Council · The Reser Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James F & Marion L Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James F & Marion L Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ayco: 89% of income from government
- Albina Head Start Inc: 81% of income from government
- Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality: 77% of income from government
- Friends of the Mentor Program: 68% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre: 48% of income from government
- Dance Wire: 47% of income from government
- Reap Inc: 46% of income from government
- Rogue Valley Mentoring: 42% of income from government
- Phoenix School of Roseburg: 41% of income from government
- Tualatin Valley Creates: 40% of income from government
- Portland Opportunities Indust Center: 38% of income from government
- Cultural Advocacy Coalition Foundation: 35% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
- United Way of Lane County: 31% of income from government
- Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon: 31% of income from government
- Play It Forward: 30% of income from government
- Elevate Oregon: 28% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc: 24% of income from government
- Alternatives Youth Activities Inc: 24% of income from government
- College Dreams Inc: 23% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center: 23% of income from government
- Young Audiences of Oregon Inc: 23% of income from government
- Risk-Reward: 22% of income from government
- Maslow Project: 22% of income from government
- Four Rivers Community School Inc: 20% of income from government
- Capaces Leadership Institute: 20% of income from government
- Kairospdx: 19% of income from government
- Friends of the Children- Central Oregon: 16% of income from government
- Latino Network: 15% of income from government
- Holla School: 15% of income from government
- Lane Arts Council: 14% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
- Ethos Inc: 13% of income from government
- Oregon Arts Watch: 13% of income from government
- The Portland Playhouse: 11% of income from government
- Ross Ragland Theater and Cultural C: 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
- My Voice Music Inc: 11% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society: 10% of income from government
- Whiteside Theatre Foundation: 10% of income from government
- Music Workshop: 10% of income from government
- Anima Mundi Productions: 10% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
- Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble: 9% of income from government
- Columbia Arts: 8% of income from government
- Tower Theatre Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- The Shadow Project: 8% of income from government
- Oregon East Symphony: 8% of income from government
- Riverbend Live: 7% of income from government
- Artichoke Community Music: 7% of income from government
- Josephy Center for Arts and Culture: 7% of income from government
- The Arts Council of Pendleton Inc: 6% of income from government
- Write Around Portland: 6% of income from government
- Craterian Performances Company: 6% of income from government
- Wordcrafters in Eugene: 6% of income from government
- Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon: 6% of income from government
- Miracle Theatre Group: 6% of income from government
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: 5% of income from government
- Cottage Theatre: 5% of income from government
- Coho Productions Inc: 5% of income from government
- Playa: 5% of income from government
- Third Rail Repertory Theatre: 5% of income from government
- Open School Inc: 5% of income from government
- Together We Are Greater Than: 5% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Repertory Singers: 5% of income from government
- Fishtrap Inc: 5% of income from government
- Oregon Contemporary Theatre: 5% of income from government
- New Expressive Works: 5% of income from government
- Lincoln City Cultural Center: 4% of income from government
- Corrib Theatre: 4% of income from government
- Cappella Romana: 4% of income from government
- Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc: 4% of income from government
- Liberty Restoration Inc: 4% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
- Eugene Springfield Youth Orchestras: 4% of income from government
- The Dalles Art Association: 4% of income from government
- Portland Revels: 3% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Film Society Ashland Independent Film Festival: 3% of income from government
- PlayWrite Inc: 3% of income from government
- Bodyvox Inc: 3% of income from government
- Bendfilm Inc: 3% of income from government
- Third Angle New Music Ensemble: 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
- Chamber Music Northwest: 3% of income from government
- Polaris Dance Theatre: 2% of income from government
- Triangle Productions: 2% of income from government
- Neskowin Coast Foundation: 2% of income from government
- White Bird: 2% of income from government
- Profile Theatre Project: 2% of income from government
- Ashland New Plays Festival: 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Klcc Public Radio Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Portland Symphonic Choir: 2% of income from government
- Serendipity Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc: 2% of income from government
- Ballet Fantastique: 2% of income from government
- Painted Sky Center for the Arts: 2% of income from government
- Regional Arts & Culture Council: 1% of income from government
- Metroeast Community Media: 1% of income from government
- Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association: 1% of income from government
- High Desert Chamber Music Inc: 1% of income from government
- Pacific Youth Choir: 1% of income from government
- Collaborative Theatre Project Inc: 1% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association in Salem: 1% of income from government
- Portland Community Media: 1% of income from government
- Alberta Abbey Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Salem Art Association: 1% of income from government
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Umpqua Valley Arts Association: 1% of income from government
- All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise: 1% of income from government
- Live Wire Radio Inc: 1% of income from government
- Eugene Concert Choir: 1% of income from government
- Portland Gay Men's Chorus: 1% of income from government
- Boom Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Portland Actors Conservatory: 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- Portland Baroque Orchestra: 1% of income from government
- Wellsprings Friends School: 1% of income from government
- Sunriver Music Festival: 1% of income from government
- Friends of Chamber Music: 1% of income from government
- Outside the Frame: 1% of income from government
- Independent Publishing Resource Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Black United Fund of Oregon: 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage: 1% of income from government
- Echo Theater Company: 1% of income from government
- Broadway Rose Theatre Co: 1% of income from government
- Caldera: 1% of income from government
- Youth Music Project: 1% of income from government
- Metropolitan Youth Symphony: 1% of income from government
- PassinArt - a Theater Company: 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Public Television Inc: 1% of income from government
- Portland Youth Philharmonic Association: 0% of income from government
- Portland Jazz Festival Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Repertory Singers: 0% of income from government
- The Campbell Institute: 0% of income from government
- Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- All Classical Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
- Centro Cultural of Washington County: 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice: 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
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