Missouri · Private foundation
Miller Don Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 95%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $962k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 95% of the organizations Miller Don Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $50k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $58k | 95% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $52k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashland University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Spring Arbor University | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Miami University | $4,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Heidelberg University | $3,610 | 2 | 0% |
| Midamerica Nazarene University | $3,600 | 1 | 0% |
| DePauw University | $3,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Northpoint College | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mount Carmel College of Nursing | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashland University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Spring Arbor University | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Miami University | $4,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Heidelberg University | $3,610 | 2 | 0% |
| Midamerica Nazarene University | $3,600 | 1 | 0% |
| DePauw University | $3,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Northpoint College | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mount Carmel College of Nursing | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Messiah University | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Baldwin Wallace University | $2,105 | 2 | 0% |
| Ohio Northern University | $2,055 | 2 | 0% |
| Malone University | $2,055 | 2 | 0% |
| Anderson University Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tiffin University | $1,555 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Miller Don Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Berry Marie D Fd H Pfdn · Council of Independent Colleges · Folds of Honor Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Miller Don Foundation
- How much does Miller Don Foundation give?
- Miller Don Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Miller Don Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%).
- Who are Miller Don Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ashland University ($8k), Spring Arbor University ($6k), Miami University ($5k).
- Does Miller Don Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Miller Don Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Miller Don Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berry Marie D Fd H Pfdn, Council of Independent Colleges, Folds of Honor Foundation.
- Where is Miller Don Foundation based?
- Miller Don Foundation is based in MO.
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