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Robert Miner Family 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.

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$60kHuman Services$23kHealth$23kMembership Benefit$9kReligion$7kArts & Culture$5kAnimals$4kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTMORELAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
WESTMORELAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
FOUNDATION CAL U$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
DERRY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT FUND$10,000
AMERICAN LEGION POST 28$8,673
Individual grant recipient$5,000
UNION MISSION$5,000
GREATER MONESSEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,000
ACTION FOR ANIMALS$2,000
UNION MISSION GALA$1,500
ACTION FOR ANIMALS$1,500
WESTMORELAND COMMUNITY ACTION$1,200
UNION MISSION LATROBE$1,000
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 (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION SANTA CLAUS: $1k → 10%OPERATION SANTA CLAUS: $1k → 10%WESTMORELAND COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 10%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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 4 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$49k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

50%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther
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

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $22k
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $22k · revenue +29%
  • GM
    GREATER MONESSEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k

Funded once

  • WE
    WESTMORELAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • FC
    FOUNDATION CAL U
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • DA
    DERRY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 20 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTMORELAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherWESTMORELAND EDUCATION FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $22,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFOUNDATION CAL U: $10,000 · OtherFOUNDATION CAL UAMERICAN LEGION POST 28: $8,673 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION POST 28Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherUNION MISSION: $5,000 · Other+7 more: $9,000 · Other+7 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $21,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthDERRY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationACTION FOR ANIMALS INC: $3,500 · AnimalsPAWS ACROSS PITTSBURGH: $500 · AnimalsOPERATION SANTA CLAUS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesWESTMORELAND HUMAN OPPORTUNITIES INC: $1,200 · Human Services
Other$99,673Health$22,500Education$10,000Animals$4,000Human Services$3,200

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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDERRY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetACTION FOR ANIMALS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION SANTA CLAUS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWESTMORELAND HUMAN OPPORTUNITIES INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS ACROSS PITTSBURGH: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DERRY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACTION FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SANTA CLAUS INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTMORELAND HUMAN OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS ACROSS PITTSBURGH ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    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.

    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 20 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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