· Private foundation
Leon and Symma Miller Memorial Trust
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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100% of Leon and Symma Miller Memorial Trust’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Leon and Symma Miller Memorial Trust named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $10k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF ISREALI DEFENSE FORCES | $1,500 |
| CHABAD'S CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL | $1,000 |
| THANC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF GREAT NECK | $1,000 |
| DOROT INC | $500 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF GREAT NECK | $500 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CEN | $500 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| CONG BETH MEDROSH OF MONSEY | $500 |
| CHABAD OF BROOKVILLE INC | $440 |
| YESHIVAS KARLIN STOLIN | $360 |
| YESHIVA TORAH VODAATH | $200 |
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 (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
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.
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How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 17 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.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leon and Symma Miller Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leon and Symma Miller Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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