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Miller Foundation
Its FY2022 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
99% of Miller Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Miller Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $36k. 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE C MARSHALL RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| V M I FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $4,500 |
| MANAKIN EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $4,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
| HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST | $2,500 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION | $1,500 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| MAYMONT FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SCRABBLE SCHOOL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| V M I FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
| ROBERT E LEE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 65% of Miller Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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 FY2022, 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
- HFHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST5× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +210%
- VMVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +234%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER4× · 2018–2021 · $10k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RLRAPPAHANNOCK LEAGUE FORone grant, 2017 · $2k
- FCFAMILY CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +141%
- FCFAMILY CENTERS INC At Home In Greenwich Divisionone grant, 2018 · $1k
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 foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Virginia Law School Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Family Centers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 28 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE C MARSHALL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS THE RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM COLLECTION ↗
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: Carmax Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Luck Companies Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The NewMarket Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Robins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Centers Inc — 20% 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.