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Miller Family Foundation Co Robert J Miller
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of MILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION CO ROBERT J MILLER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $378k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $473k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVIC | $250,000 |
| THE HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S HOME INC | $100,000 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BISHOP KELLY FOUNDATION | $68,155 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $55,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUND | $50,000 |
| KILLEBREW-THOMPSON MEMORIAL CANCER | $45,500 |
| EDISON HIGH SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| COLLEGE OF IDAHO | $35,000 |
| LEARNING LAB | $30,000 |
| GREATER THANI HAVE A DREAM | $25,000 |
| IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION I | $25,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ADA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI HOUSE INC | $21,600 |
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 (FY19–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k 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
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +50%
- TCThe College of Idaho Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +5%
OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC4× · 2018–2022 · $400k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $543k
- YEYOUTH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $60k
- TCTHE CONTINGENTone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
The mission of the University of Western States is to advance the science and art of integrated health care through excellence in education and patient care.
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Public education (local education agency) - sage international school engages students within an inclusive ib learning community, challenging all members to take risks and contribute locally and globally through open-minded inquiry.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Youth Ranch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Underdogs Boise. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 81 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 HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds BISHOP KELLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MED ACCESS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FRESHWATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CONTINGENT ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds HARMON KILLEBREW-DANNY THOMPSON MEMORIAL CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lines for Life ↗
- Who funds THE DUKE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORKS NW ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Andersen Construction Foundation · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union
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 Family Foundation Co Robert J Miller 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
- Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Lifeworks Nw — 8% of income from government
- The Contingent — 5% of income from government
- Solve — 5% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Tuality Healthcare Foundation — 3% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% 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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