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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
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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 it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS TARRANT COUNTY$50,000
TENEO NETWORK INC$50,000
NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
TENEO NETWORK INC$50,000
TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION$50,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC$40,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 32% of The Miles Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 72%.

The Miles Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.

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

+70%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 112 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/81
Grantees still filing
60/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 4.7% 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 budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION: $90,000 over 4y, 84% of budgetCRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $90,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $90,000 over 4y, 1.3% 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 budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIBERTY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetFAMILY FIRST INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Book Festival: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NATIONAL: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAB Christian Learning Center: $26,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetLET GROW INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFORT WORTH EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

Thomas M Helen McKee …Rainwater Charitable …Community Foundation …Amon G Carter Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…The Morris FoundationR4 FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Paul E Andrews Jr Fou…Amon G Carter-Star Te…Helen Irwin Littauer …The Rees-Jones Founda…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's 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, 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.

    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 112 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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