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Oscar Miller Family Private Foundation at a glance

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Oscar Miller Family Private Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$232k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.7MCommunity Improvement$266kEducation$171kReligion$47kPhilanthropy$39kArts & Culture$4kHuman Services$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $145k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$216k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPAULDING REHABILITATION INC$145,000
BABSON COLLEGE$40,000
HEBRON ACADEMY INCORPORATED$20,000
TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM$6,938
CONGREGATION MISHKAN TEFILA$5,612
JOEY O DONNELL FOUNDATION TRUST THE JOEY FUND$5,250
WINSOR SCHOOL INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,100
NEWTON POLICE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION$450
PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION$250
NEWTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION$200
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$100
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$100
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 (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MARIN MUSEUM OF BICYCLING: $2k → 8%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $25 → 6%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $100 → 13%BELKNAP HOUSE: $100 → 9%BELKNAP HOUSE: $100 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $150 → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 17%ASSOCIATION OF BLIND CITIZEN: $250 → 7%ASSOCIATION OF BLIND CITIZEN: $250 → 7%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $1k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $1k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $500 → 16%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

ME
NH
NY
MA
RI
CA
UT
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 30 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
23

Total granted

$2.1M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+61%

Still filing today

57%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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

  • AC
    ACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $552k · revenue +111%
  • BABSON COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +43%
  • THE WINSOR SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • NP
    NATIVITY PREP SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • BU
    BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +61%
  • MM
    Marin Museum of Bicyclinggraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +153%
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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
8
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
9
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
10
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
11
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
12
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marin Museum of Bicycling. 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

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 56 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)
9
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

SPAULDING REHAB HOSPITAL: $1,006,470 · OtherSPAULDING REHAB HOSPITALSPAULDING REHABILITATION INC: $145,000 · OtherSPAULDING REHABILITATION INC+33 more: $111,376 · Other+33 moreACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC: $552,050 · HealthACCELERATED CURE PROJECT IN…+4 more: $4,004 · HealthBABSON COLLEGE: $262,375 · EducationBABSON COLLEGEHebron Academy Incorporated: $130,000 · EducationHebron Academy Incorp…THE WINSOR SCHOOL: $35,000 · EducationTHE WINSOR SCHOOL+2 more: $2,750 · EducationROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesMarin Museum of Bicycling: $1,800 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION OF BLIND CITIZENS INC: $500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 · Human ServicesBelknap House: $200 · Human Services+2 more: $125 · Human ServicesMASONIC EDUCATION & CHARITY TRUST: $3,140 · Community Improvement2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,210 · Housing & ShelterBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $300 · International
Other$1,262,846Health$556,054Education$430,125Human Services$5,375Community Improvement$3,140Housing & Shelter$1,210International$800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC: $552,050 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $262,375 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHebron Academy Incorporated: $130,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINSOR SCHOOL: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMASONIC EDUCATION & CHARITY TRUST: $3,140 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Museum of Bicycling: $1,800 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEWTON POLICE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $1,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,210 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $792 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLIND CITIZENS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRETIRED BOSTON POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBelknap House: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE OF SAVANNAH GEORGIA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral New Hampshire VNA & Hospice: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $25 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 ACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Hebron Academy Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds MASONIC EDUCATION & CHARITY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC ↗
  • Who funds ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds Marin Museum of Bicycling ↗
  • Who funds NEWTON POLICE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF BLIND CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Combined Jewish Phila…Boston Foundation IncJoseph and Rae Gann C…American Tower Corpor…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY15× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Oscar Miller Family Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oscar Miller Family Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc: 29% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Masonic Education & Charity Trust: 2% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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
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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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