How much does Miller Foundation give?

Miller Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $36,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.

What does Miller Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Education (9%), Science & Tech (4%).

Who are Miller Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: George C Marshall Research Foundation ($24k), VMI Foundation ($23k), Housing Families First ($11k).

Does Miller Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2021, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Miller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Miller Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carmax Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, Luck Companies Foundation.

Where is Miller Foundation based?

Miller Foundation is based in DE.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

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.

$36k
Granted FY2021: 17
Grants FY2021: 15
Organizations funded FY2021: 7%
First-time grantees FY2021

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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.

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021: $1,500
Largest grant, FY2021: $5,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 18; FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021: 1
Total assets, FY2021: $757
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 7% of the organizations Miller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEnvironmentEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2021	15	$35k	7%
FY2020	14	$29k	0%
FY2019	15	$29k	20%
FY2018	18	$28k	17%
FY2017	18	$26k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$399kEducation$51kScience & Tech$24kArts & Culture$24kEnvironment$20kHealth$16kHousing & Shelter$11kReligion$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
George C Marshall Research Foundation	$24,000	6	0%
VMI Foundation	$22,500	5	0%
Housing Families First	$10,650	5	0%
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation	$10,000	5	0%
Southern Environmental Law Center	$9,500	4	0%
Maymont Foundation	$7,500	5	0%
University of Virginia Law School Foundation	$7,000	5	0%
The Virginia Home	$7,000	5	0%
Sheltering Arms Corporation	$6,000	3	0%
Manakin Episcopal Church	$6,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of Miller Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
George C Marshall Research Foundation	$24,000	6	0%
VMI Foundation	$22,500	5	0%
Housing Families First	$10,650	5	0%
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation	$10,000	5	0%
Southern Environmental Law Center	$9,500	4	0%
Maymont Foundation	$7,500	5	0%
University of Virginia Law School Foundation	$7,000	5	0%
The Virginia Home	$7,000	5	0%
Sheltering Arms Corporation	$6,000	3	0%
Manakin Episcopal Church	$6,000	2	n/a
Stratford Hall	$5,000	5	0%
James River Association	$4,500	3	0%
University of Virginia Darden School Foundation	$4,500	3	0%
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$4,000	2	n/a
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges	$4,000	4	0%
Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat	$4,000	3	0%
Elk Hill Farm Foundation	$3,500	4	1%
Sheltering Arms Foundation	$3,000	2	0%
The Collegiate School	$2,350	3	0%
Rappahannock League For	$1,500	1	n/a
Scrabble School Preservation Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Family Centers Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Children's Museum of Richmond	$1,000	2	0%
American Civil War Museum Collection	$250	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Miller Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Carmax FoundationVA23.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Miller Foundation

How much does Miller Foundation give?: Miller Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $36,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Miller Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Education (9%), Science & Tech (4%).
Who are Miller Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: George C Marshall Research Foundation ($24k), VMI Foundation ($23k), Housing Families First ($11k).
Does Miller Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2021, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Miller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Miller Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carmax Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, Luck Companies Foundation.
Where is Miller Foundation based?: Miller Foundation is based in DE.