How much does The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation give?

The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $76,866 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (69%), Health (12%), Philanthropy (4%).

Who are The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Lees-McRae College Inc ($531k), The High Country Charitable Foundation ($16k), Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc ($13k).

Does The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The B W and Barbara 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 The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Winston-Salem Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.

Where is The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation based?

The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation is based in NC.

The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation

The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$77k

Granted FY2022

Grants FY2022

States reached

$76k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$532kHealth$89kPhilanthropy$34kArts & Culture$27kHuman Services$20kReligion$13kHousing & Shelter$13kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0

02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k1 grant · $1k
$50k–250k1 grant · $76k

$75,866

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Lees-McRae College	$75,866
Women's Fund of the Blue Ridge	$1,000

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, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$722k · 27 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 25 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$722k

$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+14%

Still filing today

52%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationAnimalsOther

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

LC
LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $531k · revenue +25%
TH
The High Country Charitable Foundation
3× · 2018–2021 · $16k · revenue +67%
WF
Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc
6× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +145%

Funded once

AR
Appalachian Regional Healthcare Fou
one grant, 2021 · $15k
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-Avery County
one grant, 2017 · $10k
TF
The Forum
one grant, 2018 · $6k

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.

High Point Regional Health

To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.

Health

Chatuge Regional Hospital Inc

To provide high quality, cost effective health care and to promote wellness throughout our community.

Health

Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health

East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health

University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health

Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health

Caldwell Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide safe, effective, compassionate care and to promote healthy lifestyles to our community.

Health

The Outer Banks Hospital Inc

To enhance the quality of life for the residents and visitors of dare county and the surrounding region by promoting wellness and providing the highest quality healthcare services.

Health

Wellmont Health System

Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.

Health

Children's Hope Alliance

To find and support a safe family setting in which each child can remain free from abuse & hurt.

Human Services

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health

Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grandfather Home for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Valle Crucis Park 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

19 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. 19 of the 44 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)

19/19

Grantees still filing

15/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$531,276Other$182,270Human Services$19,785Philanthropy$16,900Recreation & Sports$11,000Environment$4,500Housing & Shelter$2,200

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.

The Winston-Salem FoundationNC16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The B W and Barbara Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home