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Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation

$6k
Granted FY2019
11
Grants FY2019
11
Organizations funded FY2019
36%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$250
Largest grant, FY2019
$3,476
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
4

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 36% of the organizations Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $726 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201911$6k36%
FY201810$9k10%
FY201717$17kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$22kEducation$5kEmployment$2kHealth$1kAnimals$920Housing & Shelter$500Youth Development$250Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Preservation Society of Newport County$11,22330%
Providence Athenaeum$4,31620%
Havana Heritage Foundation$2,7502n/a
Lyme Disease Research Foundation Inc$1,00021%
Civic Works Inc$1,00030%
The Olana Partnership$1,00010%
South Baltimore Learning Corporation$1,00030%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$97420%
Robert Potter League for Animals Inc$92010%
Baltimore Museum of Art$80030%
International Arts & Artists Inc$27610%
World Monuments Fund Inc$2501n/a
Johns Hopkins University$25010%
Chesapeake Center for Youth Develop$2501n/a
The American University of Paris Foundation$10010%
Historic Hampton Incorporated$10010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Preservation Society of Newport County: $11,223 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence Athenaeum: $4,316 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLyme Disease Research Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCivic Works Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Olana Partnership: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Baltimore Learning Corporation: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $974 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRobert Potter League for Animals Inc: $920 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBaltimore Museum of Art: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Arts & Artists Inc: $276 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American University of Paris Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Hampton Incorporated: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lois H and Charles a 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.

About Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation

How much does Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation give?
Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $5,702 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (71%), Education (15%), Employment (5%).
Who are Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: The Preservation Society of Newport County ($11k), Providence Athenaeum ($4k), Havana Heritage Foundation ($3k).
Does Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Network for Good, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation based?
Lois H and Charles a Miller Foundation is based in MD.

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 22 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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