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Miller Family Foundation Inc

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.

$4.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$8.4MEducation$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.1MHuman Services$392kHealth$290kPhilanthropy$287kArts & Culture$255kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $414k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.3M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,000,000
PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$801,000
PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$786,800
POINT FORWARD INC$707,375
Individual grant recipient$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS$75,000
THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI$50,000
ST PIUS X CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER$50,000
VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER$50,000
GP MADE FOUNDATION$33,000
UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #250-PITTSBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$30,000
CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM$25,000
KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$25,000
VALLEY HOPE FOUNDATION$25,000
JOB POINT$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $260k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $5k → 16%DEMETRIOUS JOHNSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $22k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $5k → 16%DEMETRIOUS JOHNSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $12k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $5k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $10k → 16%JOB POINT: $25k → 17%JOB POINT: $25k → 17%JOB POINT: $25k → 17%JOB POINT: $25k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $10k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $10k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $10k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $10k → 17%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Miller Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 59%.

Miller Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 56 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
19

Total granted

$17M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+107%

Still filing today

46%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PS
    PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +95%
  • GM
    GP MADE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $189k · revenue +73%
  • PO
    PAWPRINTS ON THE HEARTLAND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +91% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • PF
    PSU FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.5M
  • DO
    DIOCESE OF JEFFERSON CITY
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MID MISSOURI INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -21%
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
Kc People's Fund
Philanthropy
2
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
3
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
4
Forward Through Ferguson

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…

Civil Rights
5
South Kansas City Chamber of Commerce

To promote area commerce

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6
Jefferson Community Foundation

Jcf connects people, ideas, and resources to build a future of opportunity for all in jefferson county.

Philanthropy
7
South Central Community Foundation

The Foundation's mission is to enhance the life, culture and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
8
The Missouri Foundation for Health

To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive

Health
9
Greater Kansas City Sports Foundation

Foster and support amateur sports competition

Recreation & Sports
10
St Charles County Parks Foundation Inc

Providing financial and volunteer support for parks in st charles county missouri.

Recreation & Sports
11
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

—
12
Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Southwest Missouri; the most unlike its peers is Peter and Susan Brown Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 84 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
17/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $6,300,400 · OtherOUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC CHURCHCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF JEFFERSON CITY: $2,000,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF JEFFERSON CITYPSU FOUNDATION INC: $1,538,200 · OtherPSU FOUNDATION INCOUR LADY OF LOURDES INTERPARISH SCHOOL: $750,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF JEFFERSON CITY: $500,000 · Other+58 more: $3,302,600 · Other+58 morePITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,112,800 · EducationPITTSBURG ST…+3 more: $110,000 · EducationPOINT FORWARD INC: $1,716,400 · Community ImprovementPOINT FORW…+2 more: $40,000 · Community ImprovementGP MADE FOUNDATION INC: $189,000 · Human ServicesJOB POINT: $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $45,600 · Human ServicesLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $40,000 · Human ServicesDEMETRIOUS JOHNSON CHARITABLE FDN: $34,000 · Human ServicesKC Healthy Kids: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI: $300,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Foundation of Southeast Kansas: $180,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO: $16,000 · PhilanthropyPETER AND SUSAN BROWN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPAWPRINTS ON THE HEARTLAND: $145,000 · AnimalsSEK HUMANE SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY KANSAS: $25,000 · Animals
Other$14,391,200Education$2,222,800Community Improvement$1,756,400Human Services$448,600Food & Nutrition$300,000Philanthropy$256,000Animals$170,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,112,800 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetPOINT FORWARD INC: $1,716,400 over 2y, 49% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI: $300,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGP MADE FOUNDATION INC: $189,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Southeast Kansas: $180,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPAWPRINTS ON THE HEARTLAND: $145,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetJOB POINT: $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MID MISSOURI INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetGREATER MISSOURI LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetCOLUMBIA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 74% of budgetST MARTIN'S ACADEMY: $60,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMISSOURI 4-H FOUNDATION: $58,750 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $48,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $45,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC: $41,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE BALKANS FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $37,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetDEMETRIOUS JOHNSON CHARITABLE FDN: $34,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetKC Healthy Kids: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetACT FOR ALEXANDRIA: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEK HUMANE SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY KANSAS: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetColumbia Art League: $25,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO: $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY KANSAS: $12,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetPETER AND SUSAN BROWN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTHOMPSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM & NEURODEVELOPMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds POINT FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds GP MADE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas ↗
  • Who funds PAWPRINTS ON THE HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds JOB POINT ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MID MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗

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.

Veterans United Found…Commerce Bancshares F…Coleman Family Founda…Community Foundation …Orscheln Industries F…Boone County Communit…Boone Electric Commun…Greater Kansas City C…St Louis Community Fo…Allen P and Josephine…Greater HorizonsRonald O Thomas Found…
Veterans United FoundationMO32.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Miller Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Miller Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 84 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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