· Private foundation
The Miles 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME - SORIN SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CARITAS OF BIRMINGHAM | $2,750 |
| AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| DOMINICAN FRIARS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WORLD VISION | $1,361 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| EXTRA MILE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OBLATE SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS DE SALES | $850 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY | $850 |
| DIVINE MERCY PARISH | $750 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $650 |
| AIDE TO CHURCH IN NEED | $590 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $575 |
| ST MARK THE EVANGALIST | $500 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $425 |
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 (FY17–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AMAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +573%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +34%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM9× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- DODISCIPLE'S OF THE LORD JESUS CHRISTone grant, 2019 · $2k
- SJST JOHN'S REGIONAL CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $1k
- QOQUEEN OF PEACE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +29%
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.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
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…
Founded in 1916, the american board of ophthalmology (abo) is an independent, not-for-profit organization and the nation's first medical specialty certifying board. its mission is to serve the public by certifying ophthalmologists through…
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
The open technology fund aims to advance internet freedom globally by supporting the research, development, implementation, and maintenance of technologies that provide secure and uncensored access to the internet.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 126 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 Caritas of Birmingham ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds SEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC ↗
- Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
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: The R&C Giancristofaro Family Foundation Inc · John & Barbara Friedrich Foundation · The Carlesimo Family Foundation · B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · The Salem Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Miles Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Miles Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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