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The Charles A and Lois H Miller Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of The Charles A and Lois H Miller Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| Preservation Society of Newport | $9,050 |
| Baltimore Heritage Inc | $7,050 |
| Newport Art Museum | $6,962 |
| Rhode Island School of Design | $6,962 |
| Walters Art Museum | $6,962 |
| Baltimore Design School | $6,962 |
| GBMC Foundaiton | $4,177 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $226k · revenue +64%- GHGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $155k · revenue +88%
NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- USUNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLANDone grant, 2021 · $20k
- BSBALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -3%
- SBSOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -30%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The organization's mission is to solicit and receive contributions and grants from the general public and to hold, invest, and administer these funds and pay expenditures for the benefit of the university of maryland in baltimore and to…
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.
The Historical Society of Baltimore County Collects, Preserves and Interprets the Rich History of Baltimore County for the Education and Enjoyment of Present and Future Generations.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The mission of baltimore washington medical center (bwmc) is to provide the highest quality healthcare services to the communities we serve. our vision is to be the preferred regional medical center through nationally recognized quality,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gbmc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Maryland Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE HERITAGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CIVIC WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BALTIMORE LEARNING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · Dicarlo Plank Foundation · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg 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 The Charles A and Lois H Miller Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Baltimore Heritage Incorporated — 63% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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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