· Private foundation
The Miller Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERGREEN BAPTIST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| THE CHAPEL AT STEELWOOD FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,000 |
| FAITH CHURCH | $25,000 |
| WINGS OF COMPASSION | $25,000 |
| MERCY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE | $24,750 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $24,750 |
| UMS-WRIGHT PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MOUNT YONAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CANTERBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SOUTH ENOTAH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $14,000 |
| CLEVELAND CONGRETIONAL HOLINESS CHURCH | $12,000 |
| BIG OAK RANCH | $11,000 |
| US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $63k · revenue +74%- SESOUTH ENOTAH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +27%
- PCPaws Crossed Dog Rescue Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $53k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- UHUWF HISTORIC TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- ABALABAMA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.
Support the research activities of the university of mississippi medical center
The alabama public health association, inc., is an association of individuals and organizations interested in public health in alabama. the mission of the association is to link individuals and organizations in addressing public health…
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
Provider of rural pre-hospital care, emergency medical education and training and medical dispatch communications
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
Enhancing and changing lives through fellowship and healthcare missions throughout the world.
Oversee and facilitate the collection, pasteurization, and distribution of human milk. Provide training and education for healthcare providers and community members about the health importance of human milk for neonates and infants.
Operation of a public charter school in Livingston, AL.
Payment of malpractice claims
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Policy Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wings of Compassion Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 75 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ENOTAH CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Paws Crossed Dog Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds UMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WILCOX HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Womens Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC DBA THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUN ↗
- Who funds PILOTS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds Wings of Compassion Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds PENELOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBRIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Rjjb Family Foundation · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Skyros Benevolent Society · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Mary J Larkins Charitable 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 Miller Charitable 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.