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Samuel H & Maria Miller 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $271k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $840k
- $250k+9 grants · $5.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC - PLEDGE 7M | $2,200,000 |
| PARMA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $700,000 |
| METRO GENERAL HEALTH CENTER | $500,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY- HEARING AND SPEECH | $500,000 |
| KOSHER FOOD PANTRY | $275,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $250,000 |
| UH AHUJA MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC - FRANCIS PAYNE BOLTON SCHOOL OF NURSING | $250,000 |
| CLEVELAND HEARING & SPEECH CENTER | $200,000 |
| HELP FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOODBANK INC | $135,000 |
| JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $100,000 |
| BOYS HOPE - GIRLS HOPE | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +44%- CHCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $625k · revenue +24%
- TCTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT2× · 2018–2024 · $525k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC - EMERGANCY ROOMone grant, 2019 · $1.5M
- CCCLEVELAND CLINICone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- IAI AM BOUNDLESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +89%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
See schedule oto provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. the organization is dedicated to living our mission and keeping…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…
We, mount carmel and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mount carmel college of nursing is a member of mount carmel and trinity health.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fund to Aid Ukraine Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds I AM BOUNDLESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RATNER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HELP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds MENORAH PARK CENTER FOR SENIOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Village at Marymount ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Third Federal Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Samuel H & Maria Miller Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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