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Miller Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Miller Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$450kInternational$420kReligion$183kEducation$176kHealth$85kArts & Culture$55kPublic Benefit$45kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Child Crisis Arizona$10,000
Shade Tree Academy$10,000
Arizona Anti Trafficking Network$10,000
Jacob's Mission$10,000
Home of the Homies$10,000
Church of Jesus Christ of LDS$10,000
Prehab of AZ Inc dba A New Leaf$10,000
Sunshine Acres Children's Home$10,000
Book of Mormon Central$10,000
Jada Church Benavides Charitable Fd$5,000
Jesse N Smith Heritage Foundation$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $90k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 11%Sunshine Acres Children's Home: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 8 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$1.0M
$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+19%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AN
    A NEW LEAF
    3× · 2021–2023 · $170k · revenue +66%
  • CC
    CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +97%
  • SA
    SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $166k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • RF
    RADLIFE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
2
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
3
Home Sweet Hope
Philanthropy
4
Umom New Day Centers Inc

To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.

Housing & Shelter
5
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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6
Az Hugs
Human Services
7
Sunshine Rescue Mission

Since 1957, SRM has provided safe emergency shelter, meals, and clothing to anyone in need. All participants are experiencing homelessness and living below the federal poverty line at intake. Located in Flagstaff, we have three facilities.…

Religion
8
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
9
Phoenix Rising Hope Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
11
House of Sol
Education
12
Onward Hope Incorporated

We are committed to improving and assisting the successful transition of at-risk young people to independent adulthood and supporting resilient families, by connecting them to resources.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunshine Acres Children's Home Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Jesse N Smith Heritage Foundation. 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

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 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILANTHROPIES: $400,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPIESIndividual grant recipient: $165,547 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST: $118,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRISTCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $60,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES+10 more: $120,000 · Other+10 moreA NEW LEAF: $170,000 · HealthA NEW LEAFHOME OF THE HOMIES: $10,000 · HealthHOME OF THE HO…SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE AC…DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $20,000 · Human ServicesDENVER RESC…ARIZONA ANTI-TRAFFICKING NETWORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesARIZONA ANT…CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $120,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD CRI…INSPIRE MUSIC SERVICE HOPE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JESSE N SMITH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & Culture944TH FW BOOSTER CLUB ATTN MARK ELLIS: $45,000 · Public BenefitCHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · ReligionBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL: $10,000 · Religion
Other$863,547Health$180,000Human Services$150,000Crime & Legal$120,000Arts & Culture$55,000Public Benefit$45,000Religion$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA NEW LEAF: $170,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $120,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budget944TH FW BOOSTER CLUB ATTN MARK ELLIS: $45,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetINSPIRE MUSIC SERVICE HOPE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetTHE JESSE N SMITH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA ANTI-TRAFFICKING NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHealing Hearts Animal Rescue and Refuge: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShade Tree Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Miller Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miller Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s 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 · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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