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Miller Don Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,600 |
| MID-AMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $3,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO | $3,600 |
| DEPAUW UNIVERSITY | $3,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO | $3,600 |
| MOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE OF NURSING | $3,500 |
| ASHLAND UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $3,500 |
| MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOL | $3,500 |
| NORTHPOINT COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| ASHLAND UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| ASHLAND UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| OWENS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of its 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.
11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASpring Arbor University2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +20%
- HUHeidelberg University2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +0%
- BWBaldwin Wallace University2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- BGBOWLING GREEN ST UNIV FBOone grant, 2023 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYone grant, 2024 · $6k
- IUINDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV FBOone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
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As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
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Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 74 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 ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Spring Arbor University ↗
- Who funds Heidelberg University ↗
- Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE OF NURSING ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Miller Don Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miller Don Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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