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Ncg Foundation Inc Naomi Caras-Miller

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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$214kArts & Culture$158kInternational$31kPhilanthropy$19kCrime & Legal$15kEnvironment$14kEducation$13kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$729k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HONOR HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
ARIZONA MUSICFEST$5,000
EVERYTOWN$3,000
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM$2,575
NEW YORK CENTER FOR LAWJUSTICE$2,501
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$2,500
PHOENIX THEATRE$2,500
DESERT BOTONICAL GARDEN$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,828
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,500
DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE$1,400
1 WEST 54TH ST FOUNDATION$1,375
KJZZ$1,200
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 (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $2k → 6%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%RACKER: $250 → 16%Good Foundation: $521 → 17%GOOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $100 → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $100 → 11%Charity Water: $3k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $250 → 11%THE CHICK MISSION: $270 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$450k · 74 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

74 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
60

Total granted

$450k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+22%

Still filing today

57%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +41%
  • TP
    THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +125%
  • MI
    MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • H
    HONORHEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +90%
  • AF
    ACUMEN FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +34%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +82%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
10
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
11
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Place Az; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 147 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
59/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONHONORHEALTH: $20,000 · HealthHONORHEALTHCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $13,378 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC: $7,825 · Health+6 more: $8,225 · Health92Y: $12,500 · Other92YScottsdale Center for Performimg Ar: $11,000 · OtherScottsdale Center for Performimg ArTOY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTOY INDUSTRY FOUNDATIONSCOTTSDALE ARTS COUNCIL: $8,150 · OtherISRAAID: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,300 · OtherMSK: $6,250 · OtherMARAVILLA EDUCATION FUND: $6,000 · Other+87 more: $99,932 · Other+87 moreTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $23,125 · Arts & CultureTHE PHOENIX THEATRE CO…MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $18,075 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUS…ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC: $15,500 · Arts & CultureARIZONA MUSICFEST INCDENVER ART MUSEUM: $10,800 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMMuseum of Modern Art: $7,940 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOC…THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $3,940 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $19,029 · Arts & Culture+18 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,068 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,500 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INC: $5,000 · InternationalRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $2,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $1,024 · International+2 more: $2,000 · InternationalDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $11,300 · Environment1 FOR THE PLANET INC: $500 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $500 · EnvironmentEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $7,000 · Civil RightsNEW YORK CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE INC: $2,501 · Civil RightsEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $3,333 · Crime & LegalFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $2,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalART ENABLES: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$199,428Other$168,132Arts & Culture$104,409International$30,092Environment$12,300Civil Rights$9,501Crime & Legal$8,333

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 budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $23,125 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHONORHEALTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $18,075 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA MUSICFEST INC: $15,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $13,378 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $11,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $10,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $7,940 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC: $7,825 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,068 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $3,940 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $3,218 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE INC: $2,501 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOSA INC: $2,300 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $1,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,665 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $1,358 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,024 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $1,021 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetART ENABLES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INC: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC: $750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $720 over 3y, 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 HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
  • Who funds HONORHEALTH ↗
  • Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI National ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater PhoenixAZ21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust · Flinn Foundation · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc

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 Ncg Foundation Inc Naomi Caras-Miller funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ncg Foundation Inc Naomi Caras-Miller. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 63%
  • Berkshire Hills Music Academy Inc: 63% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 147 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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