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Robert Miller & Catherine Miller Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Robert Miller & Catherine Miller Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$295kEducation$149kFood & Nutrition$118kInternational$84kHealth$74kHuman Services$68kCivil Rights$66kArts & Culture$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$964k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA & SOLANO$10,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES)$10,000
EARTH JUSTICE$10,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$7,500
IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA$7,500
ROSSMOOR FUND$6,500
TRINITY CENTER$5,000
COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
LIFE LEARNING ACADEMY$5,000
WIDER CIRCLE$4,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CARING CHOICES: $5k → 18%WILLING HANDS: $4k → 9%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $3k → 7%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 10%WILLING HANDS: $4k → 9%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 10%WILLING HANDS: $3k → 9%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 10%WILLING HANDS: $3k → 9%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 10%WILLING HANDS: $3k → 9%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 10%WILLING HANDS: $3k → 9%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 10%ROSSMOOR FUND: $7k → 9%ROSSMOOR FUND: $6k → 9%ROSSMOOR FUND: $5k → 9%ROSSMOOR FUND: $4k → 9%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $500 → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $500 → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $500 → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $500 → 14%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
WI
NY
OR
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 52 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
8

Total granted

$1.1M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+14%

Still filing today

79%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% 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
EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • EARTHJUSTICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +82%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +81%
  • NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • UR
    UC REGENTS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • HF
    HISPANIC FEDERATION (PUERTO RICO RELIEF)
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IT
    Information Technology and Innovation Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +43%
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
8
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
9
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open City Advocates; the most unlike its peers is The Trinity Center Corporation. 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

51 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. 51 of the 67 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
41/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES): $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGON (ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES)Individual grant recipient: $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $55,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $42,500 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $25,500 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $22,500 · OtherUC REGENTS (HISTORY DEPT): $22,500 · OtherTHE TRINITY CENTER CORPORATION: $20,000 · Other+28 more: $165,850 · Other+28 moreEARTHJUSTICE: $90,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICECOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $35,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION FOR RAIN…NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $24,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK O…Save The Bay: $18,000 · EnvironmentSave The Bay+5 more: $17,500 · Environment+5 moreWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $47,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIV…Life Learning Academy: $32,500 · EducationLife Learning…A WIDER CIRCLE INC: $27,500 · EducationA WIDER CIRCL…OAKLAND PROMISE: $25,000 · EducationOAKLAND PROMI…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC: $63,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalRAZOM INC: $4,000 · International+1 more: $1,500 · InternationalNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $50,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $15,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsRossmoor Fund: $21,000 · Human ServicesWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor: $20,000 · Human ServicesCaring Choices Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $40,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$528,850Environment$185,000Education$134,000International$88,500Civil Rights$71,500Human Services$71,000Food & Nutrition$47,500

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 budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $90,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $63,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $50,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $47,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLife Learning Academy: $32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $27,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $25,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRossmoor Fund: $21,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Bay: $18,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILO FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWESTCOAST CHILDREN'S CLINIC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY SPCA: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN CITY ADVOCATES: $9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaring Choices Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLAREMONT CANYON CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAUSAL CREEK: $5,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBerkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane: $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONTRA COSTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $3,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FUND OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $3,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER CONSERVANCY: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWALNUT CREEK LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOWE LIBRARY CORPORATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAME THEORY ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
  • Who funds Life Learning Academy ↗
  • Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds OAKLAND PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Rossmoor Fund ↗
  • Who funds WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
  • Who funds LISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor ↗
  • Who funds Save The Bay ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MILO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WESTCOAST CHILDREN'S CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY SPCA ↗
  • Who funds OPEN CITY ADVOCATES ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Caring Choices Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLAREMONT CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗

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.

East Bay Community Fo…Gordon E and Betty I …The Duffield Family F…New Hampshire Charita…Jewish Community Fede…Emily Landecker Found…Lubrano Family Charit…Greater Washington Co…Greater Good CharitiesThe Yelp FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Impactassetsinc
East Bay Community FoundationCA21.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Lubrano Family Charitable Foundation Emmett Lyne Trustee C/O Rich May PC · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Greater Good Charities · The Yelp Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Impactassetsinc

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 Robert Miller & Catherine Miller Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert Miller & Catherine Miller Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
  • Willing Hands Enterprises Inc: 17% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Robert Miller & Catherine Miller Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 67 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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