· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHAEL JAMES AND MARYANN ELSASSER MILLER FUND | $224,000 |
| THE WILD CHERRY FUND | $224,000 |
| MATT MILLER FUND | $112,000 |
| THE JOANNA MILLER-MILLER FUND | $112,000 |
| ACM FUND | $112,000 |
| SHEFFIELD FOUNDATION | $112,000 |
| THE JEFF MILLER FUND | $112,000 |
| ACM CF DONOR FUND | $112,000 |
| WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC | $7,500 |
| HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS | $7,500 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD | $6,000 |
| FAMILIES OF AUTISM COMING TOGETHER (FACT) | $6,000 |
| LEE'S FRIENDS HELPING PEOPLE LIVE WITH CANCER | $5,000 |
| THE ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TOGETHER WE CAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Miller Oil 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- WTWESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC3× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +94%
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +111%
- TSTHE SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- GOGET OUT PREVAILS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $64k
- SHSacred Heart Churchone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SVSURVIVOR VENTURES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +31%
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 mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…
To provide shelter and to engage in dedicated efforts to eliminate domestic violence. the organization provides advocacy, support, and education to those who have been affected by domestic violence in the cities of chesapeake and…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
To advance programs, practices, and policies that nurture children, empower families, and support communities.
Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.
Safe harbor provides the support that survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking need to overcome their crisis and to transform their lives.
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
The voice for victims of crime and those who serve them
For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.
Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development
Scvp is a non-profit organization providing free, confidential, comprehensive, and trauma-informed services to those affected by sexual and domestic violence. the purpose of scvp is to empower those affected by sexual and domestic violence…
The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Norfolk Casa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Hampton Roads Diaper Bank. 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 18 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 51 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 WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lees Friends ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVOR VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds NAMI Coastal Virginia ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF TIDEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood ↗
- Who funds GREATER HAMPTON ROADS DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KNIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE CAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GENIEVE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN GOLDBERG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK CASA INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO ↗
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: 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
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 Oil 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.
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.
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