· Private foundation
The Marshall Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGINIAS INC | $20,000 |
| MEMORY MATTERS | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| ST ANDREW BY-THE-SEA UMC | $20,000 |
| ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA | $15,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC | $15,000 |
| HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| HHI DEEP WELL PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CARING CLOWNS INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 38% of The Marshall Miller Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 60% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 49% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MMMEMORY MATTERS6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +48%
- TVTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC5× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +33%
- ACARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA6× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- HCHERITAGE CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SAST ANDREWS BY THE SEAone grant, 2020 · $6k
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INCone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.
The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
To provide financial resources to better enable Beaufort Memorial Hospital to serve the current and future health needs of the people of Beaufort County and the surrounding areas, as well as to foster health and wellness throughout the…
Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and…
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
Chamber Music Charleston is dedicated to developing the audience for classical music through chamber music concerts and educational programs of the highest caliber.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Literacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Public Library Foundation of Beaufort County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGINIAS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARING CLOWNS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LEAN ENSEMBLE THEATER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Outreach Connection ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT COUNTY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Marshall Miller Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.