· Private foundation
The Miller Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First Lutheran Church | $100,000 |
| Howard County Conservancy | $25,000 |
| Community Fndn of Howard County | $25,000 |
| Friends In Need Foundation | $5,000 |
| First Lutheran Church | $5,000 |
| US Flooding Lutheran Diaster Relief | $5,000 |
| A Home of Our Own Howard Inc | $4,000 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr | $2,000 |
| Trader Fndn for MD Burial Sites | $2,000 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in Amer | $1,500 |
| United Lutheran Seminary | $1,500 |
| University of Cumberlands | $1,000 |
| America Institute for Cancer Resear | $1,000 |
| National Federation for the Blind | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- LCLINWOOD CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $52k · revenue +11%
- THTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +35%
- MCMCDANIEL COLLEGE INC2× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TVTHE VILLAGE OF AUGSBERGone grant, 2022 · $25k
- SFSW FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…
Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To develop and implement strategies to improve the safety of patient care in maryland. mpsc unites stakeholders to champion patient safety, eliminate preventable harm, and accelerate improvements in safety quality across healthcare.
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Howard County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 151 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.
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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 Community Foundation of Howard County Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Give Back Foundation · The Hoenes Family Foundation Inc · The Horizon Foundation of Howard County Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · America's Charities · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Mangione Family Foundation Inc · Wr Grace Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Autism Society of Maryland Inc — 67% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc — 44% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Youth Empowerment Source Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Howard Ecoworks Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Howard County Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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