· Private foundation
Julius Sumner Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| POSSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAPS CHARITIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +23%
- CHCARING HOUSE INCORPORATED5× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +56%
- LSLOS SERENOS DE POINT VICENTE INC5× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF SENIOR SCOUT COMMMUNITYone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TLTimeless Learning Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
- ECEPISCOPAL COMMUNITIES SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…
Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.
The Maritime Museum of San Diego restores, maintains and operates historic vessels.The museum has one of the world's finest collections of historic ships, including the world's oldest active ship Star of India.
To educate on, and the preservation of, the arts, architecture, and history of Art Deco
Educational Purpose: Educating the public about the arts through exhibitions, research, and public programming. Public Benefit: Operating primarily for public education or charitable purposes, such as maintaining a public art collection.
The international seafarers center of long beach/los angeles the center is a california non-profit public benefit corporation organized to provide and maintain facilities and services for the recreational, personal, and cultural needs of…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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
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 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CARING HOUSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LOS SERENOS DE POINT VICENTE INC ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Maritime Institute ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAPS Charities ↗
- Who funds Timeless Learning Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Julius Sumner Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julius Sumner Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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