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K R and Laura Miller Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

K R and Laura Miller Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$429kArts & Culture$220kEducation$217kHousing & Shelter$106kHuman Services$105kHealth$104kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kFood & Nutrition$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
The Salvation Army of Victoria$3,000
Hope of South Texas$3,000
First Baptist Church - Inez$1,000
Emmanual Lutheran Church$1,000
St Josephs Catholic Church$1,000
City of Edna Housing Authority$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%Untethered Ministries: $4k → 7%St Theresas Catholic Church: $80k → 15%COLE OHRT WALK STRONG: $50k → 16%The Blessing Historical Foundation: $20k → 20%St Theresas Catholic Church: $25k → 15%Dacosta Hermann Sons: $35k → 16%St Theresas Catholic Church: $15k → 15%Dacosta Hermann Sons: $35k → 16%Texana Arts Council: $75k → 15%Dacosta Hermann Sons: $35k → 16%Texana Arts Counsel: $50k → 15%Cole Ohrt Walk Strong: $25k → 16%Little Flower Council No 3421: $29k → 15%EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $62k → 16%Texana Arts Council: $25k → 15%Inez Community Benefit Association: $53k → 16%Saint Paul Lutheran Church: $20k → 15%Inez Community Benefit Association: $35k → 16%Jackson County Vol Org Act Disaster: $10k → 15%Inez Volunteer Fire Department: $30k → 16%Jackson County: $7k → 15%INEZ COMMUNITY BENEFIT ASSN: $30k → 16%JACKSON CNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES DIS: $5k → 15%Inez Community Benefit Association: $25k → 16%Inez Community Benefit Association: $25k → 16%Inez Community Benefit Association: $25k → 16%Emmanuel Lutheran Church: $24k → 16%Emmanuel Lutheran Church: $18k → 16%Industrial Little League: $18k → 16%Inez Volunteer Fire Department: $15k → 16%Emmanuel Lutheran Church: $15k → 16%Vanderbilt Baptist Church: $35k → 15%Emmanuel Lutheran Church: $11k → 16%Vanderbilt Baptist Church: $35k → 15%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $7k → 16%St James Lutheran Church: $12k → 15%Vanderbilt Baptist Church: $35k → 15%Affectionate Arms Adult Care: $25k → 16%Affectionate Arms Adult Care: $15k → 16%Cole Ohrt Walk Strong Foundation: $25k → 16%Cole Ohrt Walk Strong: $25k → 16%Christs Kitchen: $12k → 16%The Salvation Army of Victoria: $8k → 16%Christs Kitchen: $8k → 16%Christs Kitchen: $8k → 16%First United Methodist Church: $4k → 16%Hope of South Texas: $3k → 16%The Salvation Army of Victoria: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 18 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
14

Total granted

$1.0M
$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-1%

Still filing today

28%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IC
    Inez Community Benefit Association
    6× · 2020–2025 · $192k · revenue +43% · 32% of their budget
  • CO
    COLE OHRT WALK STRONG
    3× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • GP
    Gabriel Project of the Crossroads
    3× · 2021–2024 · $54k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GABRIEL PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • LF
    Little Flower Council No 3421
    one grant, 2021 · $29k
  • CO
    Cole Ohrt Walk Strong Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Pregnancy counseling

Human Services
2
South Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Crisis pregnancy counseling.

Health
3
The Lullaby House

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.

Youth Development
4
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
5
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
—
6
Christ's Hospital
—
7
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
8
Grace House Texarkana Inc

Grace House exists to rescue and advocate for women and families at risk.

Housing & Shelter
9
Crossroads Recovery House
—
10
Hospice of Texarkana Foundation

Established for the financial support of hospice of texarkana, inc.

Human Services
11
Christian Helping Hands of Comanche

Its mission is to share the love of jesus as we provide food, clothing, housing, and hope to the hungry, homeless and hurting

Human Services
12
Hospice of East Texas Foundation

Hospice of east texas foundation operates for the benefit of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise Pointe Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 36 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $130,446 · OtherEMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCHSt Theresas Catholic Church: $120,000 · OtherSt Theresas Catholic ChurchVanderbilt Baptist Church: $105,000 · OtherVanderbilt Baptist ChurchIndividual grant recipient: $105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE GABRIEL PROJECT: $100,000 · OtherTHE GABRIEL PROJECTTEXANA ARTS COUNCIL: $100,000 · OtherTEXANA ARTS COUNCILTexana Arts Counsel: $50,000 · OtherInez Volunteer Fire Department: $45,000 · OtherAffectionate Arms Adult Care: $40,000 · Other+23 more: $221,180 · Other+23 moreInez Community Benefit Association: $192,000 · EducationInez Community …COLE OHRT WALK STRONG: $100,000 · HealthGabriel Project of the Crossroads: $54,350 · Human ServicesPROMISE POINTE INC: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,016,626Education$192,000Health$100,000Human Services$54,350Housing & Shelter$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInez Community Benefit Association: $192,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetTEXANA ARTS COUNCIL: $100,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetCOLE OHRT WALK STRONG: $100,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetGabriel Project of the Crossroads: $54,350 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCHRIST'S KITCHEN: $31,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBLESSING HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHOPE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROMISE POINTE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Inez Community Benefit Association ↗
  • Who funds TEXANA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds COLE OHRT WALK STRONG ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Cloyde and Ethel Lee …Wood Family Memorial …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation · Wood Family Memorial Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization K R and Laura Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from K R and Laura Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to K R and Laura Miller Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to K R and Laura Miller 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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