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The Carl H Miller Jr 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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$120kReligion$22kHealth$12kRecreation & Sports$8kEducation$6kPhilanthropy$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$615k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESERVE ARKANSAS$4,500
QUAPAW QUARTER ASSN$3,550
MT HOLLY CEMETERY ASSN$3,500
PIONEER WASHINGTON REST FDTN$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
GERTRUDE REMMEL BUTLER CHILD DEVELO$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
AR ARTS CENTER$2,000
HIST CANE HILL APPLE BLOSSOM SOCIET$1,000
AR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
AR HUMANITIES COUNCIL$1,000
CENTRAL AR LIBRARY SYSTEM$1,000
MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY$1,000
HISTORIC AR MUSEUM$1,000
UNITED METHODIST FAMILY HEALTH$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CALICO ROCK MUSEUM FDTN: $2k → 14%HIST CANE HILL APPLE BLOSSOM SOCIET: $1k → 14%GERTRUDE REMMEL BUTLER CHILD DEVELO: $2k → 17%PIONEER WASHINGTON REST FDTN: $3k → 21%CALICO ROCK MUSEUM FDTN: $1k → 14%HIST CANE HILL APPLE BLOSSOM SOCIET: $1k → 14%HISTORIC AR MUSEUM: $1k → 17%PIONEER WASHINGTON RESTORATION FOUN: $3k → 21%CALICO ROCK MUSEUM FOUNDA: $1k → 14%PRYOR CTR FOR ORAL AND VISUAL: $1k → 14%CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM BUT: $1k → 17%PIONEER WASHINGTON REST FDTN: $3k → 21%CALICO ROCK MUSEUM FOUNDA: $1k → 14%PRYOR CTR FOR ORAL AND VISUAL: $1k → 14%HISTORIC AR MUSEUM: $1k → 17%PIONEER WASHINGTON REST FDTN: $3k → 21%CALICO ROCK MUSEUM FOUNDA: $1k → 14%PRYOR CTR FOR ORAL AND VISUAL: $1k → 14%MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY: $1k → 17%PIONEER WASHINGTON RESTORATION FOUN: $2k → 21%CALICO ROCK MUSEUM FDTN: $1k → 14%PRIOR CENTER FOR ORAL AND VISUAL HI: $1k → 14%ARKANSAS PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDAT: $1k → 17%PIONEER WASHINGTON RESTORATION FOUN: $1k → 21%PRIOR CENTER FOR ORAL AND VISUAL HI: $1k → 14%CENTRAL AR LIBRARY SYSTEM: $1k → 17%PRIOR CENTER FOR ORAL AND VISUAL HI: $1k → 14%AR HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $1k → 17%AR HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $1k → 17%HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM: $1k → 17%ARKANSAS HUMANITIES COUNC: $1k → 17%HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM: $1k → 17%HISTORIC AR MUSEUM: $1k → 17%CENTRAL AR LIBRARY SYSTEM: $1k → 17%HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM: $1k → 17%CENTRAL AR LIBRARY SYSTEM: $1k → 17%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 17%ARKANSAS PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDAT: $1k → 17%UAMS CHANCELLOR'S CIRCLE: $2k → 17%UAMS CHANCELLOR'S CIRCLE: $2k → 17%UAMS CHANCELLORS CIRCLE: $2k → 17%UAMS CHANCELLOR'S CIRCLE: $2k → 17%UAMS CHANCELLORS CIRCLE: $2k → 17%UAMS CHANCELLORS CIRCLE: $2k → 17%UNITED METHODIST MUSEUM OF AR: $2k → 17%UNITED METHODIST MUSEUM OF AR: $2k → 17%UNITED METHODIST FDTN OF AR: $2k → 17%UNITED METHODIST FDTN OF AR: $2k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$198k · 45 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
2

Total granted

$198k
$3k

Still filing today

22%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsReligionOther
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

  • HP
    HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +64%
  • QQ
    QUAPAW QUARTER ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +94%
  • HW
    HISTORIC WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • GR
    GERTRUDE REMMEL BUTLER CHILD DEVELO
    one grant, 2025 · $2k
  • AH
    AR HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2025 · $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.

1
Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc

The Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History was established to help further the mission of the Division of Arkansas Heritage; to identify Arkansass Heritage and enhance the quality of life by the discovery,preservation and…

Arts & Culture
2
Arkansas Governor's Mansion Association

To raise funds through fundraisers and memberships to help support the upkeep and refurbishment of the arkansas governor's mansion

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3
South Arkansas Historical Preservation Society

Educate the general public about items of historical significance and preservation of historic buildings, artifacts and landmarks in south arkansas

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4
Arkansas Air and Military Museum

The mission of the Arkansas Air and Military Museum is to establish and maintain a museum for public display of aircraft, aviation artifacts, and military memorabilia from the earliest period to the present with special attention to items…

Arts & Culture
5
Historic Arkansas Museum Foundation

The historic arkansas museum foundation: the foundation exists to support the historic arkansas museum thorugh activities that foster history and culture education through fundraising efforts that increase access to educational programming…

Arts & Culture
6
Arkansas Archeological Society

The Arkansas Archeological Society was formed in 1960 for the purpose of uniting all persons interested in the archeology of Arkansas, for the recognition and preservation of our cultural heritage and prehistory, and for fostering and…

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7
Washington County Historical Society

Discover, preserve, and celebrate the history of washington county, arkansas, and to share that heritage with others.

Arts & Culture
8
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
9
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation

The arkansas museum of fine arts foundation was created by the arkansas museum of fine arts in 1972 to manage and administer an endowment fund for the benefit of the museum and to hold legal title to the collection of art objects.

Arts & Culture
10
Arkansas Repertory Theatre

To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…

Arts & Culture
11
Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Foundat

Provide african american awareness on arkansans who have made important contributions to society

Arts & Culture
12
Sculpture At the River Market Inc

The mission of sculpture at the river market, inc. is to promote public sculpture art in the riverfront park in little rock, ar and throughout the little rock community.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Humanities Council; the most unlike its peers is Camp Aldersgate 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

11 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. 11 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUAPAW QUARTER ASSOCIATION: $16,290 · OtherQUAPAW QUARTER ASSOCIATIONIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF OLD STATE HOUSE: $7,000 · OtherAR ARTS CENTER: $6,000 · OtherFIREHOUSE HOSTEL AND MUSEUM: $6,000 · OtherUNITED METHODIST FDTN OF AR: $5,000 · Other+33 more: $86,250 · Other+33 moreHISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS INC: $16,400 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLI…HISTORIC WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC WASHINGTON FOUNDA…MOUNT HOLLY CEMETERY: $11,000 · Arts & CultureMOUNT HOLLY CEMETERYMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureCAMP ALDERSGATE INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE METHODIST FOUNDATION FOR ARKANSAS: $3,000 · ReligionARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$145,540Arts & Culture$46,900Recreation & Sports$6,000Religion$3,000Philanthropy$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS INC: $16,400 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetQUAPAW QUARTER ASSOCIATION: $16,290 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHISTORIC WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetMOUNT HOLLY CEMETERY: $11,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP ALDERSGATE INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VICTORIAN SOCIETY IN AMERICA: $3,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE METHODIST FOUNDATION FOR ARKANSAS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas Humanities Council: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.6% 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 HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds QUAPAW QUARTER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT HOLLY CEMETERY ↗
  • Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY IN AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST FOUNDATION FOR ARKANSAS ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY ↗
  • Who funds Arkansas Humanities Council ↗

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    3report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Carl H Miller Jr 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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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