How much did THE MILES FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE MILES FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

pec programmingpilotclassroomsummer literacyliteracy programmingearly learningworth expansion

2019

fuel serieseducationaladvocacyrise campusearly childhoodparticipationidea

2020

fortress youthsummer coordinationstaffinstallmentpartearly learningpec

2021

iiidonorsinstallmentpledge fulfillmentchartereducation

2022

gen opsdonor advisedbest placeplace kidscharterparenttarrant

2023

advocates

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$50k–250k5 grants · $465k
$250k+3 grants · $2.0M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$68M

Total assets

Largest grants

NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,113,750
DONORS TRUST$600,000
VELA EDUCATION FUND$250,000
FAMILIES EMPOWERED$150,000
BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC$100,000
TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$85,000
THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE INC$75,000
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC$55,000
FORT WORTH CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 72% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 57 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

57 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+63%

Still filing today

60%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

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

TP
TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION
4× · 2018–2021 · $651k · revenue +137%
CC
CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES
6× · 2018–2023 · $475k · revenue +94%
FE
FAMILIES EMPOWERED
5× · 2020–2024 · $411k · revenue +14%

Funded once

D
DONORSTRUST
one grant, 2019 · $617k
ST
STAND TOGETHER
one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +19%
AS
ACE SCHOLARSHIPS
one grant, 2020 · $133k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Valor Texas Education Foundation

Valor Public Schools educates the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life.

Education

North Texas Christian Foundation

As the North Texas affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Philanthropy

Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights

Communities in Schools of Central Texas

Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.

Education

Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

To be Texas' foremost champion of individual rights & freedoms through education & litigation.

Civil Rights

Kipp Texas Inc

KIPP Texas Public Schools is an open-enrollment, free public charter school network of 57 schools with nearly 35,000 Pre-K - 12 students across the state. Together with our families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent…

Education

Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development

The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school.

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Texas Tribune Inc

Texas' member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization dedicated to providing news on politics, policy and current events.

Education

Austin Trinity School

Our independent school provides an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment.

Education

Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education

Texas Foundation for Educational

School's mission is to help establish basic skills through teaching methods that enhance a child's joy in learning, ability to learn, and interest in learning while fostering the child's self-confidence.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Texas Christian University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/73

the rest of the field

13%

17,176/136,731

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

70 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/70

Grantees still filing

55/70

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$8,454,871Philanthropy$2,651,250Education$2,187,564Human Services$1,074,715Public Benefit$656,215Health$375,000Youth Development$337,900

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.

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.

Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan FoTX64.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Morris Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · R4 Foundation · United Way of Tarrant County · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Mary Potishman Lard Trust

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 organisation THE MILES FOUNDATION INC 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE GATEHOUSE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 752514849 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE GATEHOUSE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 84% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Miles Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Miles Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MILES FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

70 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Miles Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE MILES FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

70 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Miles Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph