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Miles Charitable Trust

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2019
20
Grants FY2019
14
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182019.

Environment$471kEducation$455kAnimals$215kArts & Culture$160kHuman Services$118kHousing & Shelter$100kHealth$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2019 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $651k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$250,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION$151,177
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING$90,000
LEWIS CLARK ANIMAL SHELTER INC$85,000
K9S 4 MOBILITY$75,000
PRISON FELLOWSHIP$50,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$50,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC$50,000
JACK O'CONNOR HUNTING AND EDUCATION CENTER INC$50,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$50,000
PHEASANTS FOREVER INC$40,000
NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM$35,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO COLLEGE$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS TOWN: $10k → 12%K9S 4 MOBILITY: $75k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$481k · 5 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$481k
$405k

Still filing today

0%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $808k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $166k
  • OP
    OWEN P MILES MUSEUM
    2× · 2018–2019 · $125k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
    2× · 2018–2019 · $75k

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • DA
    DISABLED AMERICAN VETERAN
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Globalgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +82%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
8
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
9
Northcoast Marine Mammal Center

The northcoast marine mammal centers (nmmc) mission is to promote the long-term health of marine mammals along approximately two hundred miles of remote coastline in humboldt and del norte counties in northern california. the nmmc does…

Animals
10
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
11
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
12
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION — $166,177 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATIONOWEN P MILES MUSEUM — $125,000 · OtherOWEN P MILES MUSEUMTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO — $100,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METROUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING — $90,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYOMINGLEWIS CLARK ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $85,000 · OtherLEWIS CLARK ANIMAL SHELTER INCUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA — $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMAPHEASANTS FOREVER INC — $65,000 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERAN — $50,000 · OtherJACK O'CONNOR HUNTING AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $50,000 · OtherPRISON FELLOWSHIP — $50,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF COLORADO — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · Other+8 more — $177,700 · Other+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CO…THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY — $15,000 · EducationTHE ENDOWMENT FU…Ronald McDonald House Global — $50,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $50,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $25,000 · HealthK9'S 4 MOBILITY INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $10,000 · Human ServicesDucks Unlimited Inc — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $35,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,233,877Education$265,000Health$125,000Human Services$85,000Environment$50,000Arts & Culture$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK9'S 4 MOBILITY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST CHILDRENS HOME — $7,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds K9'S 4 MOBILITY INC
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC
  • Who funds THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
  • Who funds NORTHWEST CHILDRENS HOME

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Miles Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc46% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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