How much does Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation give?

Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $72,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Arts & Culture (24%), Health (12%).

Who are Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ($226k), The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($166k), Triangle Education Foundation ($102k).

Does Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43.

Where is Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation based?

Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation is based in TX.

Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation

Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$73k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$742kArts & Culture$370kHealth$193kPhilanthropy$122kReligion$46kCommunity Improvement$25kRecreation & Sports$21kAnimals$20kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $23k
$10k–50k3 grants · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$30,000
ST JOHN'S SCHOOL	$10,000
TRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$10,000
MFAH	$6,000
HOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL	$5,000
RICE UNIVERSITY- BAKER INSTITUTE	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 33 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+2%

Still filing today

67%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
3× · 2017–2023 · $226k · revenue +17%
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TRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +47%
SC
Summit Charter School
4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +71%

Funded once

HG
Houston Golf Association Inc
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -20%
TH
Texas Honor Ride
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -84%
HA
HOPE AND HEALING CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $1k

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.

Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment

Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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Houston Museum of Natural Science

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…

Arts & Culture

Houston Independent School District Foundation

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…

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The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education

Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

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.

Community Improvement

The Heritage Society

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…

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Harris County Medical Society

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…

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Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health

Texas Heart Medical Group

To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

Health

Scott & White Healthcare Foundation

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…

Health

John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

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…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

21/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$648,200Education$283,015Arts & Culture$268,400Health$181,800Philanthropy$139,000Community Improvement$25,000Recreation & Sports$23,200

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.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX27.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steven and Sheila Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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.

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