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The Miles Foundation

Be Available is organized exclusively for charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

$14k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$34kReligion$19kAnimals$6kHousing & Shelter$5kInternational$2kHuman Services$1kHealth$500Youth Development$500Other$0
02FY2019 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k3 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mansio Montessori of Geneva$11,000
Independent Baptist Church$3,000
Calvary Church of Naperville$250
Feed my starving Children$100
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 (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY HEROES APPRECIATION: $500 → 12%ANGEL WINGS INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 13%RELEVANT WORD MINISTRIES: $8k → 9%HEARTS IN MOTION: $1k → 5%ST LUKE'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 6%Feed my starving Children: $100 → 7%Independent Baptist Church: $3k → 7%BRIDGES MONTESSORI ACADEMY: $10k → 8%QUAD COUNTY HAWG HUNTERS: $4k → 13%SUSAN G KOMEN 3 DAY WALK FOR BREAST CANCER: $500 → 14%JKB EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST LUKE'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $1k → 6%MILITARY MAMA NETWORK: $500 → 7%Mansio Montessori of Geneva: $11k → 8%QUAD COUNTY HOG HUNTERS: $2k → 13%EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AMERICA: $3k → 14%GRACE HOLISTIC CENTER FOR EDUCATION: $10k → 6%GREATER JOLIET YMCA: $5k → 7%GRACE HOLISTIC CENTER FOR EDUCATION: $3k → 6%WAGS 2 WISHES ANIMAL RESCUE: $250 → 7%Calvary Church of Naperville: $250 → 7%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 field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRACE HOLISTIC CENTER FOR EDUCATION: $13,000 · OtherGRACE HOLISTIC CENTER FOR EDUCATIONMansio Montessori of Geneva Ltd: $11,000 · OtherMansio Montessori of Geneva LtdBRIDGES MONTESSORI ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherBRIDGES MONTESSORI ACADEMYRELEVANT WORD MINISTRIES: $7,500 · OtherRELEVANT WORD MINISTRIESST LUKE'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $6,000 · OtherST LUKE'S LUTHERAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientQUAD COUNTY HAWG HUNTERS: $4,000 · OtherQUAD COUNTY HAWG HUNTERSINDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AMERICA: $2,500 · Other+6 more: $4,750 · Other+6 moreTHE LAMB CENTER: $5,000 · EnvironmentANGEL WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,500 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $100 · InternationalJKB Experiential Education Foundation: $500 · Youth DevelopmentWAGS 2 WISHES ANIMAL RESCUE: $250 · Animals
Other$66,750Environment$5,000International$1,600Youth Development$500Animals$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMansio Montessori of Geneva Ltd: $11,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LAMB CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANGEL WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWAGS 2 WISHES ANIMAL RESCUE: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $100 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 Mansio Montessori of Geneva Ltd ↗
  • Who funds THE LAMB CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds JKB Experiential Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WAGS 2 WISHES ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
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no gov · 10%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
    1get 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.
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    How do I get to The Miles Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Miles Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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