· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Baltimore Design School | $6,962 |
| Rhode Island School of Design | $6,962 |
| Walters Art Museum | $6,962 |
| GBMC Foundaiton | $4,177 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles A and Lois H Miller Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles A and Lois H Miller Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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