· Private foundation
Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY | $50,000 |
| KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY HOUSE | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NE PA | $15,000 |
| EGAN MARITIME FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CENTRO HISPANO | $11,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +162%- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 85 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.
- 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 RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Haystack Mountain School of Crafts ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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