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Miller Oil Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2023
19
Grants FY2023
19
Organizations funded FY2023
84%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$224,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 19
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 84% of the organizations Miller Oil Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthAnimalsEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202319$1.2M84%
FY202212$52k75%
FY202115$74k80%
FY202014$103kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.0MHealth$205kCivil Rights$64kHuman Services$60kYouth Development$19kEducation$11kFood & Nutrition$11kEmployment$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestern Tidewater Free Clinic Inc: $17,375 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Friends of Foster Care Incorporated: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Sarah Michelle Peterson Foundation: $9,520 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetLees Friends: $8,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetChesapeake Care Inc: $7,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSurvivor Ventures Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHorizons Hampton Roads Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI Coastal Virginia: $6,765 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFamilies of Autistic Children of Tidewater Inc: $6,150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Genieve Shelter: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Knights Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTogether We Can Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGreater Hampton Roads Diaper Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetEliza Hope Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBenjamin Goldberg Foundation: $4,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAbility Center of Virginia: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCircle a Home for Horses Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSt Mary's Home for Disabled Children Inc: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorfolk Casa Inc: $2,675 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetClever Communities in Action: $2,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTodd Rosenlieb Dance: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThrive Peninsula Formerly Duco: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach Foundation Inc (Reach Enriches All Children): $1,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorfolk Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Southeastern Virginia: $688 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Peninsula Foodbank: $468 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 29.

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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.

United Way of South Hampton RoadsVA57× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of South Hampton Roads · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · The Blocker Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · Townebank Foundation · The Dalis Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Wards Corner Lions Club Charity Foundation Inc · The Charity Bowl Football Game

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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How do I get to Miller Oil Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Miller Oil Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Miller Oil Foundation

How much does Miller Oil Foundation give?
Miller Oil Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $1,171,700 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Miller Oil Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Health (15%), Civil Rights (5%).
Who are Miller Oil Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Get Out Prevails Foundation Inc ($64k), Western Tidewater Free Clinic Inc ($17k), The Friends of Foster Care Incorporated ($15k).
Does Miller Oil Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Miller Oil 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 Oil Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of South Hampton Roads, Hampton Roads Community Foundation, Sentara Health.
Where is Miller Oil Foundation based?
Miller Oil Foundation is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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