· Private foundation
The Mike and Joy Miller Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $44,351 |
| ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ST LUKES UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| LAKE DARDANELLE STATE PARK | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS HOPE-TEXARKA | $250 |
| ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH | $250 |
| MARS HILL CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERICAN | $200 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +119% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ATARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue -37%
- RBRUSS BUS INC4× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +119%
- AYARKANSAS YOUTH CHORALE3× · 2017–2019 · $3k
Funded once
- CFCARTI Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -25%
- RHRUSSELVILLE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3k
- TDTHE DANCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -72%
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.
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.
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
To nourish northwest arkansas communities by feeding hungry people through partnerships with other hunger relief organizations.
The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
To provide assistance to those in need living in the community.
Food bank that distributes food supplies to families in need in nine counties.
To combat hunger in rutland county by providing food to those in need.
To alleviate hunger in southwest Arkansas and northeast Texas through food distribution and education.
Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.
The High Plains Food Bank exists to help solve the issue of hunger and food insecurity in the Texas Panhandle.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUSS BUS INC ↗
- Who funds CARTI Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOL KIDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Other Options Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY FOOD 4 KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAINSTREET MISSION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mike and Joy Miller Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mike and Joy Miller Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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