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The David B Miller Family Foundation at a glance

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The David B Miller Family 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.

$6.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$28MHuman Services$6.4MHealth$4.4MReligion$3.0MHousing & Shelter$1.9MArts & Culture$1.0MEmployment$1.0MInternational$665kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Southern Methodist University$3,250,000
Highland Park United Methodist Church$1,000,000
Make a Wish Foundation$1,000,000
Salvation Army$1,000,000
Goodwill Industries$500,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Southern Methodist University: $4.0M → 14%Hendrix College: $500k → 15%Crozet Avenue Christian Preschool: $38k → 8%Southern Methodist University: $3.3M → 14%Southern Methodist University: $1.9M → 14%Southern Methodist University: $1.6M → 14%Highland Park United Methodist Church: $100k → 14%Crossroads Commmunity Services: $50k → 14%Goodwill Industries: $500k → 14%Goodwill Industries: $500k → 14%Salvation Army: $1.1M → 14%Salvation Army: $1.0M → 14%Salvation Army: $1.0M → 14%The Loop Dallas: $83k → 14%Highland Park United Methodist Church: $1.0M → 14%George W Bush Presidential Center: $500k → 14%Make a Wish Foundation: $1.0M → 14%See Statement Attached: $7.5M → 14%Southwestern Medical Foundation: $1.0M → 14%New Friends New Life: $25k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 44 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
56

Total granted

$46M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+43%

Still filing today

57%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    8× · 2018–2025 · $24M · revenue +39%
  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +259%
  • HC
    HENDRIX COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $525k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • US
    UT Southwestern Medical Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $320k
  • BH
    Baylor Health Care System Fnd
    one grant, 2018 · $235k
  • Texas 2036graduated
    one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue +87%
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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3
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
4
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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5
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
6
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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7
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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8
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
9
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
10
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.

Education
11
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
12
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the American University of Afghanistan. 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

58 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. 58 of the 103 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
41/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southern Methodist University: $23,668,595 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,320,000 · Education+9 more: $991,800 · EducationSalvation Army: $3,558,050 · OtherSalvation ArmyFirst United Methodist Church of Dallas: $1,750,000 · OtherFirst United Methodist Church of DallasMake a Wish Foundation: $1,708,862 · OtherMake a Wish FoundationMethodist Health System Foundation: $1,521,260 · OtherMethodist Health System FoundationAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $1,298,000 · OtherAUSTIN STREET CENTERHighland Park United Methodist Church: $1,100,000 · OtherHighland Park United Methodist ChurchHendrix College: $1,000,000 · OtherHendrix CollegeGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $1,000,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC+56 more: $3,828,466 · Other+56 moreEL DORADO FESTIVALS & EVENTS INC: $750,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $250,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $33,350 · Arts & CultureTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $492,370 · PhilanthropyPROJECT SHELTER INC: $31,600 · Philanthropy+4 more: $27,000 · PhilanthropyBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $424,250 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $29,300 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $325,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $15,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS INC: $131,300 · InternationalLEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS: $50,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $24,100 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · International
Education$28,480,395Other$16,764,638Arts & Culture$1,033,350Philanthropy$550,970Human Services$531,050Health$440,000International$225,400

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 budgetSouthern Methodist University: $23,668,595 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,320,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $1,298,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEL DORADO FESTIVALS & EVENTS INC: $750,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE: $525,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $492,370 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $424,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $250,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $240,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS INC: $131,300 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTexas 2036: $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $49,925 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCrozet Avenue Christian Preschool: $37,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT SHELTER INC: $31,600 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetThe Family Place: $29,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLydia Patterson Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $24,300 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $24,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS DISCOVERY GARDENS: $23,200 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY HOMESTEAD: $15,200 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMomentous Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds EL DORADO FESTIVALS & EVENTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HENDRIX COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas 2036 ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
  • Who funds LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS ↗

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 Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…Hegi Family FoundationRowling FoundationThe Moody FoundationThe Perot FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Constantin Founda…Kline Family Foundati…Katherine C Carmody C…
The Dallas FoundationTX38.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hegi Family Foundation · Rowling Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Constantin Foundation Inc · Kline Family Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.

    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 103 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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