Does Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Artsfund, Lucky Seven Foundation.

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Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$817k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 17
Grants FY2024: 16
Organizations funded FY2023: 25%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $185,116
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 19; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $18M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	14	$817k	29%
FY2023	16	$814k	25%
FY2022	19	$763k	53%
FY2021	11	$826k	9%
FY2020	14	$641k	29%
FY2019	16	$673k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$2.4MEducation$955kRecreation & Sports$367kArts & Culture$213kFood & Nutrition$175kCrime & Legal$148kScience & Tech$88kAnimals$79kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Trust	$1,873,771	6	52%
University of Washington	$460,158	4	n/a
Seattle Parks Foundation	$320,000	5	2%
The Bloedel Reserve	$160,000	5	2%
Arboretum Foundation	$82,900	6	1%
Pacific Science Center Foundation	$70,000	4	0%
Northwest Horticultural Society	$60,000	3	12%
Washington State Historical Society	$55,000	3	n/a
Woodland Park Zoological Society	$53,600	2	0%
Burke Museum Association	$50,000	2	1%

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All grantees of Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Trust	$1,873,771	6	52%
University of Washington	$460,158	4	n/a
Seattle Parks Foundation	$320,000	5	2%
The Bloedel Reserve	$160,000	5	2%
Arboretum Foundation	$82,900	6	1%
Pacific Science Center Foundation	$70,000	4	0%
Northwest Horticultural Society	$60,000	3	12%
Washington State Historical Society	$55,000	3	n/a
Woodland Park Zoological Society	$53,600	2	0%
Burke Museum Association	$50,000	2	1%
The Garden Conservancy Inc	$35,000	5	0%
The Trust for Public Land	$35,000	2	0%
Discover Your Northwest	$30,000	1	1%
Uplift Northwest	$30,000	2	0%
Blackpastorg	$30,000	6	5%
Ryther	$25,000	1	0%
Friends of Lakewood	$25,000	1	2%
Braided River	$17,000	1	1%
Humanities Washington	$15,000	1	0%
Bellevue Botanical Garden Society	$12,000	1	1%
Holocaust Center For Humanity	$10,000	1	0%
Olympia Historical Society	$6,500	2	6%
Edmonds Floretum Garden Club	$5,000	1	n/a
Shoreline Historical Museum	$5,000	1	0%
Hardy Fern Foundation	$3,500	1	5%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Seattle FoundationWA30.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation

How much does Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation give?: Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $817,390 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (54%), Education (21%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
Who are Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Trust ($1.9M), University of Washington ($460k), Seattle Parks Foundation ($320k).
Does Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Artsfund, Lucky Seven Foundation.
Where is Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation based?: Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation is based in WA.