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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
19
Organizations funded FY2019
74%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 19
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
14
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 74% of the organizations Miles Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201919$1.1M74%
FY201815$620kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
IL
WI
WY
IN
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Miles Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK9's 4 Mobility Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $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

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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 10.

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About Miles Charitable Trust

How much does Miles Charitable Trust give?
Miles Charitable Trust reported 20 grants totaling $1,123,877 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Miles Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Education (25%), Animals (12%).
Who are Miles Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: University of Colorado Foundation ($250k), K9's 4 Mobility Inc ($75k), Ronald McDonald House Global ($50k).
Does Miles Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Miles Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Miles Charitable Trust based?
Miles Charitable Trust is based in CO.

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 30 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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