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The Lillian Miller Educational Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lillian Miller Educational Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
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.

Civil Rights$234kEducation$214kArts & Culture$77kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$327k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTIST'S TRUST$12,500
Individual grant recipient$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$10,617
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$10,000
WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$4,776
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%VASSAR COLLEGE: $7k → 9%LYDIA SHAMOUN: $9k → 13%DAREN WATERSON: $15k → 17%CORNISH SCHOOL: $20k → 9%CLARITY4ACTION: $10k → 9%WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $28k → 12%LYDIA SCHMOUN: $3k → 13%ARTIST'S TRUST: $13k → 9%TATE BUSBY: $8k → 9%WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 12%CORNISH SCHOOL: $10k → 9%TATE BUSBY: $8k → 9%WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%ARTIST'S TRUST: $13k → 9%JENNIFER NIELSEN: $4k → 9%WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%CORNISH SCHOOL: $9k → 9%EDMONDS HEIGHTS K-12 PTSO: $4k → 9%APRIL MAHONEY: $8k → 12%ARTIST'S TRUST: $10k → 9%CORNISH SCHOOL: $5k → 9%GENDER ODESSEY INC: $45k → 9%KEVIN CARTER THOMAS KEOGH: $16k → 9%ARTIST'S TRUST: $10k → 9%KEVIN KEOGH: $5k → 9%JULIA MONTE: $12k → 9%ANTHONY-RAY ANGELO WHITE: $16k → 9%MATTHEW SYTHANDOME: $7k → 9%LIONEL VANCE: $13k → 9%MATTHEW SYTHANDOME: $7k → 9%ANTHONY-RAY ANGELO WHITE: $8k → 9%LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS INS: $10k → 9%MARINA PIERCE: $7k → 9%SHUNPIKE: $22k → 9%MARINA PIERCE: $5k → 9%MCKISSON SARGENT OLIASION: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $11k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%UNVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%UNVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%UNVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%UNVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%UNVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $8k → 9%UNVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $6k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%ANTHONY WHITE: $10k → 9%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$300k · 11 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$300k
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+18%

Still filing today

9%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

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

  • WW
    WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $66k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2021–2023 · $54k
  • AT
    Artist Trust
    4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • GO
    GENDER ODESSEY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $45k
  • S
    SHUNPIKEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $22k · revenue +62%
  • KC
    KEVIN CARTER THOMAS KEOGH
    one grant, 2018 · $16k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 32 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $66,250 · OtherWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $53,970 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $45,393 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONGENDER ODESSEY INC: $45,000 · OtherGENDER ODESSEY INCCORNISH SCHOOL: $44,324 · OtherCORNISH SCHOOLANTHONY-RAY ANGELO WHITE: $23,997 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherKEVIN CARTER THOMAS KEOGH: $16,000 · Other+21 more: $147,453 · Other+21 moreArtist Trust: $45,000 · Arts & CultureArtist TrustSHUNPIKE: $21,500 · Arts & CultureSHUNPIKELANGSTON: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLANGSTON
Other$458,387Arts & Culture$76,500

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 budgetArtist Trust: $45,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSHUNPIKE: $21,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLANGSTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $6,500 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.

  • Who funds Artist Trust ↗
  • Who funds SHUNPIKE ↗
  • Who funds LANGSTON ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lillian Miller Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lillian Miller Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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