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Miller Zell Charities Inc

Miller zell charities is committed to supporting programs that promote the fight against alzheimer's and breast cancer; in addition to programs that provide safe environments for teenagers and youth mentoring, children shelters that provide care for abandoned, neglected and abused children and services for veterans and the homeless which…

$269k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$404kYouth Development$197kPhilanthropy$160kRecreation & Sports$42kHuman Services$35kHousing & Shelter$28kReligion$18kEmployment$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $193,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $269,430 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $76,280 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Daughters Against Alzheimers$53,000
United Way of Greater Atlanta$50,000
Bankhead Boys Association$45,000
Lowes Foundation$12,500
Rouse Foundation$10,000
MARR$10,000
Alzheimers Assoc GA Chapter$7,500
PAVE Global$5,150
02The need
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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 (FY21–21, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NW ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $25k → 8%LOST & FOUND YOUTH: $10k → 13%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 24% of Miller Zell Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 62%.

Miller Zell Charities Inclessmore 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$663k · 6 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -9% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$663k
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
-9%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • DA
    Daughters Against Alzheimer's Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $166k · revenue +664%
  • CANDID
    3× · 2022–2024 · $151k · revenue -21%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue -26%

Funded once

  • BB
    BANKHEAD BOYS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $46k · revenue -20% · 30% of their budget
  • NA
    NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -17%
  • GA
    GEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR BREAST CANCER F/K/A IT'S THE JOURNEY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -21%
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.

1
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
Beloved Atlanta Inc

Beloved atlanta is an anti-sex trafficking organization lovingly equipping brave women on their path to freedom. we accomplish this through safe housing, mental health services, thrength based case management, and healthy community.

Human Services
3
Lupus Foundation of America Georgia Chapter Inc

The lupus foundation of america is the foremost national nonprofit voluntary health organization dedicated to finding the causes of and cure for lupus and providing support, services, and hope to all people affected by lupus. the georgia…

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4
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
5
CaringWorks Inc

Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.

Human Services
6
Au Medical Associates Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…

Health
7
Au Medical Center Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…

Education
8
Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education Inc

Georgia CORE is an innovative, public-private partnership created to ensure that Georgians have equitable access to and receive benefits from the latest advances in cancer care and research. The organizations mission is to advance cancer…

Health
9
Kennestone Hospital Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…

Health
10
Wellstar Health System Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…

Health
11
Wellstar Sylvan Grove Hospital

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…

Health
12
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Georgia Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Rouse Foundation. 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

19 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. 19 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
7/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Daughters Against Alzheimer's Inc: $165,520 · HealthDaughters Against Alzheimer's IncThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $113,962 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation IncMETRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC: $60,000 · HealthMETRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $22,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCI…GEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR BREAST CANCER F/K/A IT'S THE JOURNEY: $20,000 · HealthCANDID: $151,000 · PhilanthropyCANDIDUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MANOR GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB: $17,713 · OtherTHE MANOR GOLF…ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S AS…WARREN COUNTY BOOSTER CLUB INC: $15,000 · OtherWARREN COUNTY …KILLINGSWORTH INC: $10,000 · OtherKILLINGSWORTH …Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual gra…CHARIS GATHERING INC: $8,000 · OtherCHARIS GATHERI…GERTRUDE'S HOUSE: $8,000 · OtherGERTRUDE'S HOU…GEORGIA CHAPTER OF THE ALZHEIMERS ASSOC: $7,500 · OtherGEORGIA CHAPTE…Wellspring Living Inc: $10,000 · OtherWellspring Liv…VETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION OF GEORGIA: $10,000 · OtherVETERANS EMPOW…SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $9,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPI…BANKHEAD BOYS ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesLowes Foundation: $12,500 · EducationVENDORS FORE EDUCATION: $7,000 · EducationPLANNING AND VISUAL EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,150 · EducationFURKIDS INC: $10,000 · Animals
Health$381,982Philanthropy$311,000Other$120,213Youth Development$46,000Human Services$35,000Education$24,650Animals$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDaughters Against Alzheimer's Inc: $165,520 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetCANDID: $151,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $113,962 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBANKHEAD BOYS ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR BREAST CANCER F/K/A IT'S THE JOURNEY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLowes Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFURKIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWellspring Living Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKILLINGSWORTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetVETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION OF GEORGIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROUSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVENDORS FORE EDUCATION: $7,000 over 1y, 15% 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.

The Community Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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

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    How do I get to Miller Zell Charities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Miller Zell Charities Inc 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 26 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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