Michigan · Private foundation
Miller Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $588k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 84
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Miller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 53 | $567k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $527k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $709k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $787k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $633k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $579k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $539k | 40% |
| FY2017 | 58 | $507k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charitable Union | $445,984 | 8 | 4% |
| Music Center of South Central Mi | $380,370 | 8 | 12% |
| Michigan Advocacy Program | $349,500 | 5 | 0% |
| New Level Sports | $292,992 | 8 | 17% |
| Sprout Urban Farms Inc | $275,050 | 7 | 44% |
| The Robert B Miller College | $264,920 | 2 | n/a |
| Safe Place | $206,865 | 8 | 4% |
| Leila Arboretum Society Inc | $179,577 | 8 | 10% |
| Voces | $143,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Nonprofit Network | $131,250 | 6 | 6% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 103 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Miller Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Battle Creek Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Guido a Binda and Elizabeth H Binda Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Battle Creek Unlimited Inc
How this is measured
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About Miller Foundation
- How much does Miller Foundation give?
- Miller Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $587,590 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Miller Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Miller Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Charitable Union ($446k), Music Center of South Central Mi ($380k), Michigan Advocacy Program ($350k).
- Does Miller Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Miller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Miller Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Battle Creek Community Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation, United Way of South Central Michigan.
- Where is Miller Foundation based?
- Miller Foundation is based in MI.
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