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Miner Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Miner Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$143k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$363kAnimals$181kHuman Services$181kReligion$150kInternational$24k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
$15,048
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$15,048
Walter J Lawson Childrens Home$15,048
Individual grant recipient$15,048
Noahs Ark Animal Sanctuary Inc$15,048
The Christian Broadcasting Network$15,048
Shriners Hospitals Children Trust$15,048
Moose Charities Fbo Mooseheart$15,048
Barbara Olson Center Of Hope$15,048
Goldie B Floberg Childrens Home$15,048
SHORT TERM BIBLE SCHOOL INC$7,253
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $17k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $16k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $15k → 15%Barbara Olson Center Of Hope: $15k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $14k → 15%Barbara Olson Center Of Hope: $13k → 15%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$865k · 11 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$865k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+23%

Still filing today

55%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +78%
  • BO
    BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +9%
  • ST
    Short Term Bible Schools Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +106%
  • NI
    NORTHERN IL HOSPICE & GRIEF CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • VM
    VILLAGE MISSIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +23%
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
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
2
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
3
Orphans Hope International
—
4
Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
5
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
6
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
7
Destiny Ministries International Inc

Provide oversight spititual support, evangelize the word help the poor and needy including aid in the translation of the nible

Religion
8
Christian Ministries International
—
9
Full Gospel Church in India & Shepherd Children's Home

Providing educational and religious support to orphanage children

Human Services
10
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
11
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
12
Global Radio Outreach

Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach Developments International; the most unlike its peers is Short Term Bible Schools Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WALTER J LAWSON CHILDRENS HOME: $90,673 · OtherWALTER J LAWSON CHILDRENS HOMEGOLDIE B FLOBERG CHILDRENS HOME: $90,673 · OtherGOLDIE B FLOBERG CHILDRENS HOMEMOOSE CHARITIES FBO MOOSEHEART: $90,673 · OtherMOOSE CHARITIES FBO MOOSEHEARTIndividual grant recipient: $75,207 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHRINERS HOSPITALS CHILDREN TRUST: $75,207 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITALS CHILDREN TRUSTNORTHERN IL HOSPICE & GRIEF CENTER: $15,466 · Other+2 more: $2,411 · OtherThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $90,673 · ReligionThe Christian Broa…Short Term Bible Schools Inc: $56,050 · ReligionShort Term Bible S…+1 more: $500 · ReligionST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $90,673 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $15,466 · HealthSHRINERS HOSP…BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $90,673 · Human ServicesBARBARA OLS…NOAH'S ARK ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $90,673 · AnimalsNOAH'S ARK …GLOBAL OUTREACH DEVELOPMENTS INTERNATIONAL: $23,915 · Philanthropy
Other$440,310Religion$147,223Health$106,139Human Services$90,673Animals$90,673Philanthropy$23,915

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $90,673 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $90,673 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $90,673 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNOAH'S ARK ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $90,673 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetShort Term Bible Schools Inc: $56,050 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetGLOBAL OUTREACH DEVELOPMENTS INTERNATIONAL: $23,915 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $15,466 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE MISSIONS: $2,005 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.

  • Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NOAH'S ARK ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Short Term Bible Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH DEVELOPMENTS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗

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.

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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 Miner Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miner Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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