· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $25,000 |
| SUE AND LEONARD MILLER CENTER | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $25,000 |
| SEEDS OF PEACE | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Miami5× · 2017–2021 · $5.7M · revenue +96%
- AAADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +13% · 28% of their budget
- RERANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $1.9M · revenue +48%
Funded once
- COCLEVELAND ORCHESTRAone grant, 2017 · $200k
- TPTHE POSES FAMILY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $25k
- SFSOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +240% · 40% of their budget
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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