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The Marshall Miller Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 17
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$749k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Marshall Miller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$115k0%
FY202412$266k0%
FY202312$87k17%
FY202212$102k25%
FY202116$52k44%
FY202017$32k29%
FY201914$23kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$154kHealth$129kArts & Culture$124kPhilanthropy$105kReligion$84kYouth Development$72kFood & Nutrition$49kInternational$23kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($245k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Marshall Miller Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWest Virginia University Foundation Inc: $122,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMemory Matters: $68,665 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetThe Volunteers in Medicine Clinic: $57,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHilton Head Symphony Orchestra Inc: $42,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetArts Center of Coastal Carolina: $41,400 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBluefield University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCaring Clowns International: $23,000 over 6y, 59% of budgetCoastal Discovery Museum: $17,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHeritage Classic Foundation: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBluefield Union Mission Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLean Ensemble Theater: $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNeighborhood Outreach Connection: $1,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Literacy Center: $1,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFuller Center for Housing of McCormick Sc Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEpworth Children's Home: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Library Foundation of Beaufort County: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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 Bargain BoxSC26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bargain Box · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation · David W Ellis Family Foundation · The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc · The Hack Foundation Inc · Palmetto Electric Trust · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc

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.

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About The Marshall Miller Foundation

How much does The Marshall Miller Foundation give?
The Marshall Miller Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $135,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Marshall Miller Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are The Marshall Miller Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($122k), Memory Matters ($69k), The Volunteers in Medicine Clinic ($57k).
Does The Marshall Miller Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Marshall Miller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Marshall Miller Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bargain Box, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Heritage Classic Foundation.
Where is The Marshall Miller Foundation based?
The Marshall Miller Foundation is based in SC.

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 33 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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