· Private foundation
Sally Ann Miller & Joseph G Miller Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of Sally Ann Miller & Joseph G Miller Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Akron Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Sally Ann Miller & Joseph G Miller Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $238k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k14 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $100,000 |
| CASE-BARLOW FARM | $82,720 |
| OPEN M MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| ACCESS INC | $5,000 |
| HEART TO HEART | $5,000 |
| COLEMAN FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| DONOVAN'S KIDS | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| EMBRACING FUTURES | $3,000 |
| GOOD NEIGHBORS INC | $3,000 |
| STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS | $3,000 |
| VICTORY GALLOP | $3,000 |
| SAFETY FORCES CHAPLAINCY CTR | $3,000 |
| MOBILITY WORLDWIDE OH-STOW | $2,500 |
| WALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCASE BARLOW FARM2× · 2017–2019 · $88k · revenue +48% · 92% of their budget
- KSKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2020 · $84k · revenue +5%
- AIACCESS INC3× · 2018–2020 · $19k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF AKRONone grant, 2018 · $200k
- USURSULINE SISTERS OF CLEVELANDone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ZIZANES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +51%
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.
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.
Museum
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
To provide a quality, affordable, and compassionate health home for every patient, every time, in all communities.
The mission of the akron-canton regional foodbank is to lead a collaborative network that empowers people to experience healthy and hunger-free lives. we distribute food to feed people and we advocate, engage and convene our community in…
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
The mission of the Akron History Center is to create an enduring long-lasting free museum-quality exhibit about Akrons history that inspires residents educates young people and welcomes visitors to our community.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CASE BARLOW FARM ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VICTORY GALLOP INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds DONOVAN'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ZANES INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Emerge Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Peter Maurin Center of Akron ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable · United Way of Summit and Medina · Firstenergy Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sally Ann Miller & Joseph G Miller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sally Ann Miller & Joseph G Miller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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