How much did MILLERKNOLL FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

MILLERKNOLL FOUNDATION reported $2,209,504 in grants in its FY2025 IRS filing. Individual grant detail isn't itemized in the e-filed return we have — it's referenced on an attached schedule, or the latest filing isn't in our corpus yet.

Where is MILLERKNOLL FOUNDATION based?

MILLERKNOLL FOUNDATION is based in OH.

MILLERKNOLL FOUNDATION

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MILLERKNOLL FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$2.2M

Granted FY2025

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Grants

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Communities

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Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of MILLERKNOLL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

lakeshoreyouthhollandgreaterchristiandesigngrand rapids

2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $2,209,504.

Median grant

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States reached

$7.4M

Total assets

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

Creating partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services

United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy

Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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Greater Lansing Food Bank

Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity in all children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum provides a unique setting for children and their caregivers to learn through discovery and active experimentation.

Arts & Culture

Arts Midwest Incorporated

To build unprecedented opportunity across the Midwest by advancing creativity.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Youth House Committee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mel Trotter Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/70

the rest of the field

6,875/74,236

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.

05the grantee network

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/64

Grantees still filing

46/64

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,116,030Education$216,000Arts & Culture$161,500Human Services$105,750Food & Nutrition$39,200Environment$18,500Health$11,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of TheMI46.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of The · Grand Haven Area Community · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Greater Ottawa County United Way · Consumers Energy Foundation · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · The Meijer Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Louis and Helen Padnos Foundation

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 organisation MILLERKNOLL 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FAIR AND EQUAL MICHIGAN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 844063744 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FAIR AND EQUAL MICHIGAN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 34% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Millerknoll Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Millerknoll Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MILLERKNOLL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Millerknoll Foundation?

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MILLERKNOLL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Millerknoll Foundation?

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