· Private foundation
Miller Funeral and Cremation Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of MILLER FUNERAL AND CREMATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| GREATER ROCHESTER AMATEUR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $750 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $600 |
| VICTOR TURKEY TROT | $500 |
| MEG'S GIFT INC | $500 |
| PITTSFORD VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE INC | $450 |
| VICTOR FARMINGTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE | $400 |
| ST JOSEPH'S NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $350 |
| ROCHESTER ROTARY SUNSHINE CAMP | $300 |
| ROCHESTER ECOLOGY PARTNERS | $300 |
| SERENITY HOUSE COMFORT CARE | $250 |
| PENFIELD PATRIOTS SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB INC | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| MCQUAID JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $250 |
| PENFIELD ECUMENICAL FOOD SHELF INC | $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 (FY20–25, $950) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- PEPENFIELD ECUMENICAL FOOD SHELF INC6× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +73%
- MGMegs Gift Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +91%
- HFHENRIETTA FIRE COMPANY NO 1 INC6× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- LGLHCC GIVES BACK EVENTone grant, 2021 · $2k
- COCOUNTY OF MONROEone grant, 2019 · $2k
- PYPITTSFORD YOUTH FOOTBALL CLUBone grant, 2023 · $750
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.
Provide residents of Penfield, New York (and the surrounding area) with access to emergency medical services.
The Rochester Police Foundation was established as an independent nonprofit organization to support the Rochester Police Department in public safety and law enforcement excellence. The Police Foundation works closely with the Chief of…
Provide Fire, EMS, and Water Rescue to the town of West Monroe in Oswego County NY
Provides 24-hour daily emergency services to the Town of Irondequoit. Also provides advanced life support to the Sea Breeze Fire District, as well as mutual aid service to areas surrounding Irondequoit in Monroe County.
Windsor Volunteer Fire Department Inc. strives to provide swift and efficient emergency services and support to our local community.
The Penfield Fire Company provides support to the volunteer firefighters serving the Penfield Fire District.
The purpose of this organization is to help the Town of Rensselaerville and neighboring communities by protecting life, property, and the environment from loss due to fire, accident, and natural disasters.
To provide fire protection and emergency medical services for the community of youngstown, ny
The Thomaston Fire Department is an all-volunteer department that provides protection and emergency response to the residents of Thomaston, CT.
The Mendon Fire Department, Inc. is organized to attract and maintain the necessary manpower to provide fire and emergency medical services to the residents of the Mendon Fire District.
The organization's primary purpose is to provide fire protection and ambulance services to the town of milan, ny and portions of the towns of gallatin, ny and clermont, ny.
Provide volunteer fire fighting and other emergency related responses for the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Penfield Patriots Sports Booster Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Zoeys Light 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 27 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 64 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 PENFIELD ECUMENICAL FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds Megs Gift Inc ↗
- Who funds HENRIETTA FIRE COMPANY NO 1 INC ↗
- Who funds VICTOR TURKEY TROT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ROCHESTER AMATEUR ATHLETIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pittsford Volunteer Ambulance Inc ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VICTOR FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I ↗
- Who funds FYLE PARENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds Pittsford Volunteer Fire Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Women's Foundation of Genesee Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD YOUTH FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rochester Ecology Partners 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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Rochester Female Charitable Society · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Marie C and Joseph C Wilson Foundation Inc · The Bernard and Patricia Iacovangelo Family 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 Funeral and Cremation Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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.