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Samuel H & Maria Miller Foundation at a glance

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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.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.2M
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$15MEducation$5.0MReligion$3.0MArts & Culture$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.6MHuman Services$952kInternational$670kPublic Safety & Disaster$616kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $271k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $840k
  • $250k+9 grants · $5.2M
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$119M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND CLINIC - PLEDGE 7M$2,200,000
PARMA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$700,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY- HEARING AND SPEECH$500,000
METRO GENERAL HEALTH CENTER$500,000
KOSHER FOOD PANTRY$275,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC - FRANCIS PAYNE BOLTON SCHOOL OF NURSING$250,000
US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$250,000
UH AHUJA MEDICAL CENTER$250,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$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
DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND$50,000
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 (FY18–24, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 15%I AM BOUNDLESS: $500k → 7%HELP FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%ADOPTION NETWORK OF CLEVELAND: $500 → 17%HELP FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $100k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $10k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%ROSE-MARY CENTER: $2k → 17%ROSE-MARY CENTER: $1k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $1k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $1k → 17%CENTER FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $5k → 17%MENORAH PARK CENTER SENIOR LIVING: $50k → 17%MENORAH PARK CENTER SENIOR LIVING: $50k → 17%MENORAH PARK CENTER SENIOR LIVING: $3k → 17%MENORAH PARK CENTER SENIOR LIVING: $3k → 17%MENORAH PARK CENTER SENIOR LIVING: $2k → 17%FUND TO AID UKRAINE: $25k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $100k → 17%HEALTHY FATHERING COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 17%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 70 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
43

Total granted

$24M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+18%

Still filing today

47%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +44%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +13%
  • CH
    CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $625k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC - EMERGANCY ROOM
    one grant, 2019 · $1.5M
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • IA
    I AM BOUNDLESS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +89%
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
Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services
2
Mount Carmel Health System

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.

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3
Mercy 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…

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4
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
5
Ohio Living Holdings

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…

Human Services
6
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
7
Highmark Health

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.

Health
8
Children's Hospital Medical Center

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,…

Health
9
Mount Carmel College of Nursing

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.

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10
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
11
Literary Cleveland

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.

Education
12
Ohio Living Quaker Heights

To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 128 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
41/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND CLINIC - EMERGENCY ROOM: $3,000,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC - EMERGENCY ROOMPARMA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 · OtherPARMA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCLEVELAND CLINIC - PLEDGE 7M: $2,300,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC - PLEDGE 7MPARK SYNAGOGUE: $2,000,000 · OtherPARK SYNAGOGUECLEVELAND CLINIC - FRANCIS PAYNE BOLTON SCHOOL OF NURSING: $1,800,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC - FRANCIS PAYNE BOLTON SCHOOL OF NURSINGCLEVELAND CLINIC - EMERGANCY ROOM: $1,500,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC - EMERGANCY ROOMCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,050,500 · OtherMETRO GENERAL HEALTH CENTER: $1,000,000 · OtherCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC: $1,000,000 · Other+86 more: $5,221,366 · Other+86 moreCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN R…NOTRE DAME COLLEGE: $760,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME COL…THE RATNER SCHOOL: $325,000 · EducationTHE RATNER SCH…+6 more: $169,000 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $525,299 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureI AM BOUNDLESS INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesHELP FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $110,000 · Human ServicesMENORAH PARK CENTER FOR SENIOR LIVING: $107,150 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $100,000 · Human Services+7 more: $72,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $510,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $220,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$22,371,866Education$3,754,000Arts & Culture$1,630,299Human Services$1,089,650International$545,000Philanthropy$501,000Food & Nutrition$220,000

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 budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,050,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNOTRE DAME COLLEGE: $760,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: $625,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $525,299 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $510,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetI AM BOUNDLESS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE RATNER SCHOOL: $325,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI: $245,000 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $220,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHELP FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $164,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $110,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMENORAH PARK CENTER FOR SENIOR LIVING: $107,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVillage at Marymount: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPSTONE ACADEMY: $70,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND POLICE FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $57,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $46,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE INC: $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute: $32,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $27,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND TO AID UKRAINE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCLEVELAND METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMIDDLE EAST FORUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLON COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRISH AMERICAN ARCHIVES SOCIETY: $4,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSE-MARY THE JOHANNA GRASSELLI REHABILITATION&EDUCATION CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY FATHERING COLLABORATIVE: $2,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSTELLA MARIS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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 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 THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds I AM BOUNDLESS INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…The Lozick Family Fou…Higley Fund of the Cl…The George Gund Found…Murphy Family Foundat…Jewish Federation of …The Helen F & Louis S…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Swagelok Foundati…The Sk Wellman Founda…Sisters of Charity Fo…Third Federal Foundat…
The Cleveland FoundationOH65.4× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Samuel H & Maria Miller Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Samuel H & Maria Miller 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 128 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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