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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2020
54
Grants FY2020
7
States reached
$200k
Largest

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

40
18
47
19
32
20
23
21
20
22
11
23
7
24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Philanthropy$7.7MEducation$3.1MHuman Services$1.4MPublic Benefit$1.2MHealth$978kYouth Development$566kEnvironment$500kReligion$318kOther$0
02FY2020 · 54 grants

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
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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%, 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.

area typical 11%LET GROW INC: $25k → 17%FAMILY FIRST INC: $20k → 13%COMMUNIO FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%FAMILY FIRST INC: $15k → 13%COMMUNIO FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%FAMILY FIRST INC: $10k → 13%COMMUNIO FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $77k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $40k → 11%DPAS ASSIST THE OFFICER FOUNDATION: $750 → 14%THE CONCILIO: $52k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $51k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $50k → 14%NORTHSIDE INTER-COMMUNITY AGENCY: $10k → 11%NORTHSIDE INTER-COMMUNITY AGENCY: $5k → 11%LENA POPE HOME INC: $200k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $24k → 11%THE PARENTING CANTER: $23k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $23k → 11%LENA POPE HOME INC: $15k → 11%LENA POPE HOME INC: $15k → 11%LENA POPE HOME INC: $15k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $30k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $30k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $40k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $13k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

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.

The Miles Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.7M · 56 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
35

Total granted

$7.7M
$746k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+54%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther

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 +110%
  • GH
    Great Hearts America-Texas
    5× · 2018–2022 · $500k · revenue +413%
  • CC
    CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES
    6× · 2018–2023 · $475k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SEMINAR NETWORK TRUST
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $68k · revenue +70%
  • LI
    LIBERTY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one 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.

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.

1
Trinity Charter School

The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…

Education
2
Valor Texas Education Foundation

Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…

Education
3
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
4
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
5
The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…

6
Progress Texas Institute

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

Civil Rights
7
Fort Worth Academy for the Education of Children and Youth

Education of children and youth

Education
8
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
9
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
10
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
11
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
12
Fort Worth Country Day School Inc

The mission of fort worth country day school is to foster the intellectual, physical, emotional and ethical development of capable students through an academically rigorous college preparatory program that integrates the arts and athletics.

Education

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…School District FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Christian Youth CampsImmigrant Worker SupportYouth Sports Programs
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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr10%24%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr10%44%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

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 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/87
the rest of the field
15%
20,232/136,717

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

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/81
Grantees still filing
60/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $4,765,950 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAXDonors Trust Inc — $2,222,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust IncTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $325,000 · Philanthropy+7 more — $750,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreFAMILIES EMPOWERED — $411,000 · EducationFAMILIES EMPOWERE…BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $325,000 · EducationBASIS TEXAS CHART…THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH…THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC — $250,000 · EducationTHE SEMINAR NETWO…ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $182,500 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOI…TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $125,000 · EducationStar Sponsorship Program Inc — $113,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationCRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $90,000 · EducationTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $88,500 · Education+16 more — $509,064 · Education+16 moreCHILD CARE ASSOCIATES — $475,000 · OtherCHILD CARE ASSOCIATE…Stand Together — $300,000 · OtherStand TogetherIDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS TARRANT COUNTY — $135,000 · OtherTEXAS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $125,000 · OtherREADING PARTNERS — $110,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION — $375,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR AMERI…FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $142,500 · Other+50 more — $1,371,371 · Other+50 moreCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesLENA POPE HOME INC — $245,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $169,466 · Human ServicesTHE CONCILIO — $153,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARENTING CENTER — $69,299 · Human ServicesFAMILY FIRST INC — $45,000 · Human Services+3 more — $40,750 · Human ServicesTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $651,215 · Public BenefitStand Together Foundation — $205,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $5,000 · Public BenefitGreat Hearts America-Texas — $500,000 · EnvironmentCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS — $150,400 · Youth DevelopmentFORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $92,500 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERTREE ACADEMY — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER — $50,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $5,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$8,062,950Education$2,494,064Other$3,033,871Human Services$1,097,515Public Benefit$861,215Environment$500,000Youth Development$387,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $4,765,950 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetDonors Trust Inc — $2,222,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $651,215 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGreat Hearts America-Texas — $500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD CARE ASSOCIATES — $475,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES EMPOWERED — $411,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION — $375,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $325,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC — $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVELA EDUCATION FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLENA POPE HOME INC — $245,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTeneo Network Inc — $220,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetStand Together Foundation — $205,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $182,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $169,466 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHE CONCILIO — $153,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS — $150,400 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $142,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $125,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetStar Sponsorship Program Inc — $113,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $92,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY — $90,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $90,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION — $90,000 over 4y, 84% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $88,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST3YEARS — $86,862 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS — $78,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC — $75,164 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFORT WORTH CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $74,501 over 3y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $74,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PARENTING CENTER — $69,299 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC — $68,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIBERTY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FIRST INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL — $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTexas Book Festival — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAB Christian Learning Center — $26,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetFORT WORTH EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLET GROW INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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 Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX70.7× affinity32 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 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 112 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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