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James & Lila Miller Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY | $115,000 |
| the Contingent | $50,000 |
| KMHOORG | $28,000 |
| Mt Olivet Baptist Church | $25,000 |
| ROSE HAVEN | $10,000 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $7,500 |
| Oregon Volunteer Firefighters Associatio | $5,000 |
| Kairos Prison Ministry International Inc | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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; $25k 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
- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $595k · revenue +36%
ROSE HAVEN CIC8× · 2017–2025 · $363k · revenue +303%- MCMercy Corps5× · 2017–2021 · $330k · revenue +19%
Funded once
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +33%- WWWEST WOMEN SHELTERone grant, 2021 · $50k
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -14%
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.
Water for good's mission is to transform lives through sustainable access to safe water as well as improved sanitation and hygiene in the places that need it most.
Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.
MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference
Serving the displaced in the middle east.
The mission of globus relief is to improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide by gathering, processing and distributing surplus medical and health supplies to charities at home and abroad.
Pilgrim Africa's mission is to challenge despair, love boldly, and help African people create a future of sustainable prosperity and health. We give ourselves in service to others regardless of economic, religious, or social standing,…
Protect the environment, reduce waste, and increase the efficient use of vital resources. strengthen and organize communities, reduce poverty and promote small enterprise development, support sustainable local food production, improve…
Gazelle Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life for people in Burundi, Africa by providing access to clean water.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is WaterAfrica. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 44 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 GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds THE CONTINGENT ↗
- Who funds KIZIMANI ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WaterAfrica ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds PDX DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM TEMPLE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ANZA-BORREGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oregon Volunteer Firefighters Association ↗
- Who funds URBAN GLEANERS ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Stumptown Strays ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James & Lila Miller Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- The Contingent — 5% of income from government
- Pdx Diaper Bank — 2% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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