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Lois E and R Duke Miller Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lois E and R Duke Miller Family Foundation Inc

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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$85kAnimals$42kHuman Services$30kReligion$22kEnvironment$17kInternational$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$318k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANGEL HORSES INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COMMONWEAL$4,000
WORKING DOGS FOR CONSERVATION$2,500
FLATHEAD LAKERS$1,500
TEAM RUBICON$1,000
PEO EDUC LOAN FUND$500
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COMMONWEAL: $4k → 8%KITKA INC: $8k → 10%COMMONWEAL: $3k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $3k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
IA
PA
CA
VA
TN
DC
OK
AL
GA
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.
$215k · 22 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
21

Total granted

$215k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+38%

Still filing today

41%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • HH
    HOPE HOHENWALD INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +719%
  • FL
    FLATHEAD LAKERS INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%
  • COMMONWEAL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • BC
    BLONDY CHURCH OF GOD
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • KI
    KITKA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +96%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +38%
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
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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2
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
3
Art & Creativity for Healing

To support emotional healing through art & creative expression for those living with pain, grief, fear or stress.

Arts & Culture
4
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

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5
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
6
Arts and Healing Initiative

Our mission is to transform lives through the innate power of the arts, guided by mental health practices, to foster healing, connection, and resilience for all.

Health
7
Charlotte Maxwell Clinic

To provide San Francisco Bay Area low-income women with cancer the opportunity for improved health outcomes and quality of life by providing free access to compassionate, integrative care and wrap-around support.

Unclassified
8
Upwell Turtles

To protect and recover endangered populations of turtles by reducing threats at sea.

Animals
9
Life On Art

Life on art unites people from diverse communities to co-create handmade large scale interactive art as a platform for social action and healing.

Arts & Culture
10
The Livestrong Foundation

Since 1997, The Livestrong Foundation has served and supported over 14.2 million people affected by cancer through survivorship programs, publications and collaborative partnerships with community and grassroots organziations to ensure a…

Philanthropy
11
First Aid Arts

At First Aid Arts our mission is to help people respond effectively to toxic stress and trauma so they can bring their best to the challenges and opportunities of the day. Our arts-based programs equip professional and volunteer care…

Health
12
Capacitar Inc

Capacitar Internationals mission is healing ourselves, healing our world. In fulfillment of this mission, it provides holistic health and wellness education for people suffering from stress or trauma as a result of civil, domestic and…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Rubicon Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kitka Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $29,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBERKELEY SOCIETY PRESERVATION TRAD: $27,000 · OtherBERKELEY SOCIETY PRESERVATION TRADHOHENWALD ARTS COUNCIL INC: $22,500 · OtherHOHENWALD ARTS COUNCIL INCKITKA WOMEN'S VOCAL ENSEMBLE: $14,000 · OtherKITKA WOMEN'S VOCAL ENSEMBLEBLONDY CHURCH OF GOD: $10,000 · OtherBLONDY CHURCH OF GODWORKING DOGS FOR CONSERVATION: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · Other+22 more: $53,500 · Other+22 moreANGEL HORSES INC: $22,000 · AnimalsANGEL HORSES …THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MA…High Forest Humane Society: $5,000 · AnimalsHigh Forest H…COMMONWEAL: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMONWEA…KITKA INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesKITKA INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …HOPE HOHENWALD INC: $15,000 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $1,500 · HealthFLATHEAD LAKERS INC: $12,000 · EnvironmentTEAM RUBICON INC: $11,000 · Public Safety & DisasterARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS: $3,500 · Arts & CultureYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCANTARE CON VIVO: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$178,000Animals$32,000Human Services$22,500Health$16,500Environment$12,000Public Safety & Disaster$11,000Arts & Culture$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANGEL HORSES INC: $22,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetHOPE HOHENWALD INC: $15,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFLATHEAD LAKERS INC: $12,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEAL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Forest Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS: $3,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunflower Wellness: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBITTERROOT THERPEUTIC RIDING: $1,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $1,000 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 ANGEL HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOHENWALD INC ↗
  • Who funds FLATHEAD LAKERS INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMONWEAL ↗
  • Who funds KITKA INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds High Forest Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Sunflower Wellness ↗
  • Who funds YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
  • Who funds BITTERROOT THERPEUTIC RIDING ↗

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.

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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 Lois E and R Duke Miller Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lois E and R Duke Miller Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 43 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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