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Miller & Chevalier Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k58 grants · $177k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF DC | $4,000 |
| WASHINGTON LAWYERS COMM FOR CIVIL RIGHTS | $4,000 |
| RISING FOR JUSTICE | $3,700 |
| MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT (MAIP) | $3,700 |
| WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS | $3,600 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES | $3,500 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC | $3,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES LEGAL NETWORK | $3,500 |
| KEEN GREATER DC LLC | $3,450 |
| A WIDER CIRCLE | $3,450 |
| DC RAPE CRISIS CENTER (DCRCC) | $3,450 |
| DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES | $3,450 |
| TURNING POINT CENTER | $3,450 |
| CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES | $3,450 |
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 (FY17–25, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 76% 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.
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.
76 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +70%
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +69%
- JJJUBILEE JOBS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +46%
- COCOMMUNITY OF HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +42%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +4%
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 D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
The district of columbia bar foundation was established to raise funds for organizations in the district that provide hands-on legal services to residents who are unable to afford legal assistance.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Pathways to housing dc prevents and ends homelessness for persons living with serious psychiatric disabilities and other complex health challenges.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
DC Affordable Law Firm delivers accessible justice to modest-income DC residents who do not qualify for traditional sources of free civil legal services and cannot afford standard representation. Our innovative programming expands access…
The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…
Court appointed special advocates of DC (CASA DC) promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy so that every abused and neglected child in the DC foster care or juvenile justice system can be safe, establish permanence and have the…
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
Low-income housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blossom Bakery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 98 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 BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS INC ↗
- Who funds LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC ↗
- Who funds KEEN GREATER DC LLC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF URBAN LIVING ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families ↗
- Who funds THRIVE DC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CLUSTER OF CONGREGATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK B ABRAMSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop ↗
- Who funds CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AYUDA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RISING FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NEW FUTURES ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S COURT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Leadership Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON THRIVE ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Venable Foundation Inc · World Bank Community Connections Fund · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · The District of Columbia Bar 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 Miller & Chevalier Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — 6% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 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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