· Private foundation
Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| TRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MFAH | $6,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY- BAKER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA - CEDAR CREEK CLUB CHARITABL | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA - WADE HAMPTON FUND | $2,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU | $500 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC | $300 |
| MAKE-A-WISH | $100 |
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 (FY17–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 44% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation3× · 2017–2023 · $226k · revenue +17%- TETRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +47%
- SCSummit Charter School4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- HGHouston Golf Association Incone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -20%
- THTexas Honor Rideone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -84%
- HAHOPE AND HEALING CENTERone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 50 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 Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Center for Houston's Future Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA DELTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds Texas Honor Ride ↗
- Who funds LOVING HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The H Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Redstone Summit Foundation · Sneed Family Foundation · Tickle Family Foundation · Sarracenia Foundation Inc
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 Steven and Sheila 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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