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The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles And

The mission of the jack miller center for teaching americas founding principles and history, inc.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$446k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$6.0MPublic Benefit$2.1MRecreation & Sports$60kArts & Culture$41kYouth Development$35kReligion$25kInternational$17kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $1,258,105, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,317,197 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $59,092 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $620k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $161k
  • $250k+1 grant · $446k
$13,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY$445,570
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$57,000
LEE UNIVERSITY$52,045
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON$51,564
CIVIC SPIRIT$46,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$38,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$33,000
CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY$28,000
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$26,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$25,250
UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA$24,630
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$23,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$19,595
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$18,365
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $54k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-OMAHA: $66k → 12%COLUMBIA CENTER AMERICAN STUDIES: $220k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN: $200k → 10%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $117k → 16%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $53k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $177k → 10%LEE UNIVERSITY: $52k → 13%UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $446k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $93k → 13%MIAMI UNIVERSITY OF OHIO: $109k → 12%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF OHIO: $184k → 22%LAKE FOREST COLLEGE: $70k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $246k → 8%CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY: $63k → 17%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $48k → 29%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $54k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150k → 22%COLUMBIA CENTER AMERICAN STUDIES: $110k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN: $125k → 10%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $76k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $100k → 10%LEE UNIVERSITY: $52k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $75k → 13%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $216k → 8%CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75k → 22%COLUMBIA CENTER AMERICAN STUDIES: $110k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN: $125k → 10%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $52k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $100k → 10%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $60k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $200k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $71k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $122k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $66k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $100k → 8%SEFARIA: $200k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $52k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $57k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
WA
ID
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 67 repeat orgs$808k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
24

Total granted

$7.3M
$683k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

61%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCivil RightsReligionHealthOther
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

  • TM
    THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $909k · revenue +74%
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $288k · revenue +24%
  • CN
    CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $243k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • SI
    SEFARIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +45%
  • MU
    MIAMI UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $109k
  • RU
    Roosevelt University
    one grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue -6%
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
6
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
11
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Portland; the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva University. 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

68 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. 68 of the 105 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
53/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION: $909,060 · OtherTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATIONUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $629,714 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $526,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $453,570 · OtherUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITYOhio University: $259,500 · OtherOhio UniversityCOASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $173,245 · Other+40 more: $1,667,105 · Other+40 moreYale University: $700,000 · EducationYale UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIABAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $288,242 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $283,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $242,500 · EducationCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATI…University of Chicago: $236,595 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoSEFARIA INC: $200,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $168,000 · Education+45 more: $1,793,758 · Education+45 moreCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $465,000 · Civil RightsNorthwestern University: $135,000 · Recreation & SportsHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $71,000 · ReligionMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $11,037 · Arts & CultureAmerica's Future Foundation: $35,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,618,194Education$4,212,095Civil Rights$465,000Recreation & Sports$135,000Religion$71,000Arts & Culture$41,037Youth Development$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION: $909,060 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetYale University: $700,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $465,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $288,242 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $283,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $242,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $236,595 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEFARIA INC: $200,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $168,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $145,935 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $122,502 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $98,559 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $92,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $91,248 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest College: $91,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $90,288 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLinfield University: $84,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $72,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $71,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC: $67,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $62,365 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $53,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $48,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University: $48,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $42,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $41,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $39,720 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBenedictine College: $38,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRoosevelt University: $38,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica's Future Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $33,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGENT UNIVERSITY: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $32,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADMIRAL FARRAGUT ACADEMY INC: $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $27,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $27,266 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $26,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $21,110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas: $20,500 over 2y, 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 THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds SEFARIA INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
  • Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Linfield University ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Tulsa Community Found…Folds of Honor Founda…Kpmg US Foundation IncNational Collegiate A…American Chemical Soc…Columbus FoundationInstitute for Humane …Charles Koch Foundati…Raymond James Charita…Association of Univer…American Council of L…Ibm International Fou…
Tulsa Community FoundationOK29.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Columbus Foundation · Institute for Humane Studies · Charles Koch Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc · American Council of Learned Societies · Ibm International Foundation

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 Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles And funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles And. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Linfield University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • George Fox University: 2% of income from government
  • University of Portland: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 0% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
  • Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report 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.

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 105 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 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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