· Private foundation
K R and Laura Miller Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texana Arts Counsel | $50,000 |
| Inez Community Benefit Association | $25,000 |
| Jackson County Vol Org Act Disaster | $10,000 |
| Christs Kitchen | $8,000 |
| Jackson County | $7,400 |
| Hope of South Texas | $3,000 |
| The Salvation Army of Victoria | $3,000 |
| Emmanual Lutheran Church | $1,000 |
| First Baptist Church - Inez | $1,000 |
| St Josephs Catholic Church | $1,000 |
| City of Edna Housing Authority | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 2% of your 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 +14% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- ICInez Community Benefit Association6× · 2020–2025 · $192k · revenue +43% · 32% of their budget
- COCOLE OHRT WALK STRONG3× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +14%
- GPGabriel Project of the Crossroads3× · 2021–2024 · $54k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- TGTHE GABRIEL PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $100k
- LFLittle Flower Council No 3421one grant, 2021 · $29k
- COCole Ohrt Walk Strong Foundationone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Pregnancy counseling
Crisis pregnancy counseling.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Grace House exists to rescue and advocate for women and families at risk.
Established for the financial support of hospice of texarkana, inc.
Its mission is to share the love of jesus as we provide food, clothing, housing, and hope to the hungry, homeless and hurting
Hospice of east texas foundation operates for the benefit of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise Pointe Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blessing Historical Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 36 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 Inez Community Benefit Association ↗
- Who funds COLE OHRT WALK STRONG ↗
- Who funds TEXANA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Gabriel Project of the Crossroads ↗
- Who funds CHRIST'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE POINTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation · Wood Family Memorial Trust · 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 K R and Laura Miller Foundation 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.
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