· Private foundation
Miller Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $435k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PSU FOUNDATION INC | $1,538,200 |
| OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI | $50,000 |
| ST PIUS X CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER | $50,000 |
| GP MADE FOUNDATION | $33,000 |
| USD 250-PITTSBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $30,000 |
| JOB POINT | $25,000 |
| VALLEY HOPE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| SEK HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Miller Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- PSPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2023 · $525k · revenue +95%
- GMGP MADE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $156k · revenue +73%
- POPAWPRINTS ON THE HEARTLAND5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +91% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- PFPOINT FORWARD INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -81% · 49% of their budget
- DODIOCESE OF JEFFERSON CITYone grant, 2020 · $500k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MID MISSOURI INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -21%
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.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
To promote area commerce
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive
Jcf connects people, ideas, and resources to build a future of opportunity for all in jefferson county.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.
Foster and support amateur sports competition
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Southwest Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Pawprints On the Heartland. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 78 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 POINT FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds GP MADE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAWPRINTS ON THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MID MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOB POINT ↗
- Who funds GREATER MISSOURI LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DEMETRIOUS JOHNSON CHARITABLE FDN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI 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: Veterans United Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Coleman Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Boone County Community Trust · Boone Electric Community Trust · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Greater Horizons · Ronald O Thomas 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 Family Foundation Inc 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.
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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