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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
2
States reached
$224k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2023 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k11 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHAEL JAMES AND MARYANN ELSASSER MILLER FUND$224,000
THE WILD CHERRY FUND$224,000
THE JEFF MILLER FUND$112,000
ACM CF DONOR FUND$112,000
THE JOANNA MILLER-MILLER FUND$112,000
ACM FUND$112,000
SHEFFIELD FOUNDATION$112,000
MATT MILLER FUND$112,000
HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS$7,500
WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC$7,500
FAMILIES OF AUTISM COMING TOGETHER (FACT)$6,000
NEIGHBORHOOD$6,000
LEE'S FRIENDS HELPING PEOPLE LIVE WITH CANCER$5,000
THE ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION$5,000
TOGETHER WE CAN FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THRIVE Peninsula: $3k → 17%Greater Hampton Roads Diaper Bank: $5k → 9%THE ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%Survivor Ventures: $8k → 19%TOGETHER WE CAN FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%Norfolk CASA: $3k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Miller Oil Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Miller Oil Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$79k · 8 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +52% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
27

Total granted

$79k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+52%

Still filing today

75%
59%

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%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WT
    WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +94%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +111%
  • TS
    THE SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • GO
    GET OUT PREVAILS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $64k
  • SH
    Sacred Heart Church
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SV
    SURVIVOR VENTURES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +31%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Transitions Family Violence Services

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…

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2
Help and Emergency Response

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…

Human Services
3
Ywca of Central Virginia

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.

Human Services
4
Prevent Child Abuse Virginia

To advance programs, practices, and policies that nurture children, empower families, and support communities.

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5
Peninsula Institute for Community Health

Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.

Health
6
Safe Harbor

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.

Human Services
7
Hope Harbor Home Inc

Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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8
Virginia Network for Victims and Witnesses of Crime Inc

The voice for victims of crime and those who serve them

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9
For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services
10
Habitat for Humanity Virginia

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

Housing & Shelter
11
Southside Center for Violence Prevention

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…

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12
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Norfolk Casa Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WILD CHERRY FUND: $224,000 · OtherTHE WILD CHERRY FUNDMICHAEL JAMES AND MARYANN ELSASSER MILLER FUND: $224,000 · OtherMICHAEL JAMES AND MARYANN ELSASSER MILLER FUNDMATT MILLER FUND: $112,000 · OtherMATT MILLER FUNDTHE JEFF MILLER FUND: $112,000 · OtherTHE JEFF MILLER FUNDSHEFFIELD FOUNDATION: $112,000 · OtherSHEFFIELD FOUNDATIONACM FUND: $112,000 · OtherACM FUNDTHE JOANNA MILLER-MILLER FUND: $112,000 · OtherTHE JOANNA MILLER-MILLER FUNDACM CF DONOR FUND: $112,000 · OtherACM CF DONOR FUNDGET OUT PREVAILS FOUNDATION INC: $63,600 · Other+27 more: $114,395 · Other+27 moreTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION: $9,520 · PhilanthropyHORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropySURVIVOR VENTURES INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTOGETHER WE CAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesGREATER HAMPTON ROADS DIAPER BANK: $5,000 · Human ServicesELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesNORFOLK CASA INC: $2,675 · Human ServicesTHRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO: $2,500 · Human ServicesWESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC: $17,375 · HealthFAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF TIDEWATER INC: $6,150 · HealthABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $4,000 · HealthNeighborhood: $6,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY KNIGHTS INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementBENJAMIN GOLDBERG FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Youth Development
Other$1,297,995Philanthropy$32,020Human Services$27,675Health$27,525Employment$6,000Community Improvement$5,000Youth Development$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 H…Hampton Roads Communi…Sentara HealthDominion Energy Chari…Langley for Families …The Blocker FoundationBeazley Foundation In…Townebank FoundationThe Dalis FoundationThe Southeast Virgini…Wards Corner Lions Cl…The Charity Bowl Foot…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Miller Oil Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miller Oil Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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