· Private foundation
The Miles Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of The Miles Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of North Texas Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Miles Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 32 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k11 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $652k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $191,741 |
| CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES | $160,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $125,000 |
| GREAT HEARTS TEXAS | $100,000 |
| COMMUNIO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $52,700 |
| THE CONCILIO | $51,250 |
| NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS TARRANT COUNTY | $50,000 |
| TENEO NETWORK INC | $50,000 |
| TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| TENEO NETWORK INC | $50,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC | $40,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 32% of The Miles Foundation Inc’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, 70% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 72% — more 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.
56 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2020, 20 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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; $250k 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
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $651k · revenue +110%
- GHGreat Hearts America-Texas5× · 2018–2022 · $500k · revenue +413%
- CCCHILD CARE ASSOCIATES6× · 2018–2023 · $475k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- TSTHE SEMINAR NETWORK TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $100k
- AFAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $68k · revenue +70%
- LILIBERTY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +42% · 44% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dpas Assist the Officer Foundation. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
81 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. 81 of the 112 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Great Hearts America-Texas ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds Stand Together ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds VELA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Teneo Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONCILIO ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Star Sponsorship Program Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FIRST3YEARS ↗
- Who funds THE BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
- Who funds BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · The Morris Foundation · R4 Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · The Rees-Jones Foundation
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 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.
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.