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The Miller Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $302,398 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $482,366 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $179,968 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k31 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Cleveland | $131,180 |
| Hawken School | $20,180 |
| The Gathering Place | $20,000 |
| Lawrence School | $15,000 |
| Cavaliers Community Foundation | $13,800 |
| Cleveland Foodbank | $11,933 |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation: Children's Hospital | $10,400 |
| Laurel School | $10,000 |
| Playhouse Square Foundation | $10,000 |
| American Heart Association | $10,000 |
| Cleveland Zoological Society | $10,000 |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $9,360 |
| University Hopsitals | $5,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland | $5,000 |
| ATF Foundation | $2,500 |
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 +29% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- LULYNN UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $262k · revenue +18%
- HSHAWKEN SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $255k · revenue +76%
- LSLAWRENCE SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TMThe Musical Arts Associationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +27%
- TWThe Wesleyan Fundone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CFCHAGRIN FALLS FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -81%
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 the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 90 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CAVALIERS YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN FALLS FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INMOTION ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds DIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) 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: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Kline Family Foundation · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family 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.
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