· 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of Miller Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Miami Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Miller Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $575k
- $250k+7 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF MIAMI-DADE | $750,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA | $550,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $500,000 |
| ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION | $444,444 |
| RANSOM EVERGLADE SCHOOL INC | $407,142 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM | $300,000 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC | $150,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI | $125,000 |
| CHIEF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTEYALE | $100,000 |
| SUE AND LEONARD MILLER CENTER | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $25,000 |
| SEEDS OF PEACE | $25,000 |
| MIZEL MUSEUM | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UOUniversity of Miami5× · 2017–2021 · $5.7M · revenue +96%
- AAADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +54% · 28% of their budget
- RERANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $1.9M · revenue +48%
Funded once
- COCLEVELAND ORCHESTRAone grant, 2017 · $200k
- SFSOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +240% · 40% of their budget
- TPTHE POSES FAMILY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Support of miami university
We strive to be the school where students dare to dream. We promise to make sure no doors for students are ever closed. We value the privilege of our role in shaping the future leaders of tomorrow. Together, we will create an inspiring…
To provide students with a comprehensive international education through the use of technology and language acquisition, so that students will become life-long inquisitive learners and utilize this knowledge across international boundaries.
Miami-dade innovation authority bridges the gap between private innovators and the public sector to fast track innovation that improves quality of life for miamians.
Miami country day school's mission is to educate children from junior kindergarten through 12th grade.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To serve as a catalyst for the establishment of miami as the technology hub for the americas in order to propel innovation and investment in south florida and latin america.
The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 University of Miami ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE TOMORROW CORP ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 Miami Foundation Inc · Cobb Family Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ansin Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc — 1% of income from government
- Educate Tomorrow Corp — 0% 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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