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The Kathy and Tom Miller Family Foundation at a glance

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The Kathy and Tom 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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$215kEducation$80kPhilanthropy$43kHousing & Shelter$26kFood & Nutrition$17kEnvironment$7kArts & Culture$7kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$889k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GILLETTE CHILDREN'S SPECIALTY HEALTHCARE$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$10,000
BENILDE-ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL$5,000
YOUTH HAVEN$5,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY$2,000
TAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA$2,000
COMO FRIENDS$2,000
CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT$2,000
SEARCH MINISTRIES$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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%TAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA: $2k → 11%PADRAIGS PLACE: $500 → 6%YOUTH HAVEN: $5k → 10%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY: $500 → 10%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$456k · 21 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
18

Total granted

$456k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+11%

Still filing today

52%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    5× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +49%
  • CO
    CITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    7× · 2017–2023 · $23k · revenue +108%
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $17k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • CT
    Children's Theatre Company and School
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +15%
  • SK
    SPARE KEY
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -20%
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
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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4
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
5
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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6
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
11
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
12
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Padraigs Place. 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

34 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. 34 of the 47 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $157,720 · HealthGillette Children's Hospital FoundationGillette Children's Specialty Healthcare: $30,000 · HealthGillette Children's Specialty Healthcare+4 more: $14,500 · Health+4 moreIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONBENILDE ST MARGARETS HIGH SCHOOL: $26,000 · OtherBENILDE ST MARGARETS HIGH SCHOOLCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATIONTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES: $16,000 · OtherTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES+22 more: $55,405 · Other+22 moreUniversity of St Thomas: $57,500 · EducationUniversity of…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVER…CITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $22,500 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $16,777 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalYOUTH HAVEN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human ServicesTAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA: $2,000 · Human ServicesPADRAIGS PLACE: $500 · Human ServicesFun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc: $500 · Human ServicesChildren's Theatre Company and School: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Health$202,220Other$207,405Education$62,500Housing & Shelter$25,500International$17,277Human Services$12,000Arts & Culture$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $157,720 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $57,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $22,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $16,777 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EDINA ABC FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARE KEY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMO FRIENDS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCAD RESEARCH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DESMOID TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDEN PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPADRAIGS PLACE: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI MINNESOTA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA: $500 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.

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 Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The K FoundationCatholic Community Fo…United Way WorldwideThe Head Family Found…Pohlad Family Foundat…The Jamf Nation Globa…The Graco FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN25.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The K Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · United Way Worldwide · The Head Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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 Kathy and Tom Miller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kathy and Tom Miller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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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How do I get to The Kathy and Tom Miller Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kathy and Tom Miller Family 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 47 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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