· Private foundation
Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $628k
- $250k+2 grants · $958k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA FARBER CANCER INST | $508,160 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $450,000 |
| ALFRED UNIVERSITY | $175,000 |
| READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $112,860 |
| GOGGLE WORKS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $100,000 |
| CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND (CERF) | $90,000 |
| KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| THE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY | $50,000 |
| NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY HOUSE | $25,000 |
| EGAN MARITIME FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NE PA | $15,000 |
| CENTRO HISPANO | $11,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
64 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k 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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +132%- AUALFRED UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $793k · revenue +21%
- UWUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $265k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- HSHAYSTACK SCHOLARSHIP 5 Kone grant, 2019 · $10k
- BMBERKS MILITARY HISTORY MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +228%
- ACALVERNIA COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The reading berks association of realtors promotes a high standard of professionalism, advocates for private property rights, and strives to improve the quality of life in our communities.
The berkshire athenaeum, pittsfield's public library, exists to initiate, nurture and feed a passion for knowledge and learning. the library offers people of all ages the materials and services necessary to satisfy an appetite for…
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
To serve berks county businesses, foster economic development and growth, and business support through combined management and coordination of activities and resources of gbdf and grcci.
The ymca of reading and berks county's mission is to put judeo-christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the ymca of reading and berks county is a cause-driven organization that…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The rosenbach museum & library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Public lending library
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historical Society of Berks County and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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. 49 of the 85 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALFRED UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GOGGLE WORKS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BERKS BUSINESS EDUCATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds Haystack Mountain School of Crafts ↗
- Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING ↗
- Who funds KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds BERKS MILITARY HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
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: Berks County Community Foundation Inc · The Breidegam Family Foundation · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Henry Janssen Foundation · United Way of Berks County Inc · Blue Mountain Foundation · Berkshire Charitable Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Jerlyn Foundation · Arizona Community 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 Marlin Miller Jr Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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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