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Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ROUND THE BEND FARM | $2,000 |
| FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS | $1,000 |
| DENISON | $1,000 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| GODFREY FOUNDATION FOR CINEMA THERA | $250 |
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 (FY19–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BSBROOKS SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +61%
- ENENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER4× · 2018–2021 · $4k · revenue +181%
- RTRound the Bend Farm Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- DMDennison Memorial Community Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +127%
- LMLittle Marion Golf Clubone grant, 2017 · $1k
- CFCOASTAL FOODSHEDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +41%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The men and women who brought bennington college into being sought to create a college that would emphasize "the individual student and her developing interests," learning "by activity and living", a community life designed to "break down…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buzzards Bay Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Godfrey Foundation for Cinema Therapy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 49 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 BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Round the Bend Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Sippican Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL FOODSHED ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EIGHT MILLION STORIES INC ↗
- Who funds SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Marion Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marion Garden Group ↗
- Who funds ALFRED HARCOURT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GODFREY FOUNDATION FOR CINEMA THERAPY 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 Quarterdeck Foundation · The Croll Foundation · The Ludes Family Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bascom Charitable Foundation · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Rubenstein Family Trust · Laura M and Peter T Grauer Foundation · Manton Foundation · Island Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation 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 Foundation 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.
- Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Round the Bend Farm Inc — 11% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Marion Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 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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