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The Miller Foundation at a glance

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The Miller 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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$133kHealth$68kYouth Development$67kRecreation & Sports$15kEnvironment$14kReligion$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$648k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOY & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MAINE$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 7%ST JOHN THE DEVINE CHURCH: $500 → 16%SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $5k → 17%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM & THEATRE: $30k → 7%ALFOND YOUTH CENTER: $15k → 12%CHILDRENS MUSEUM AND THEATRE: $30k → 7%ALFOND YOUTH CENTER: $10k → 12%FORT WILLIAMS PARK: $1k → 7%ALFOND YOUTH CENTER: $3k → 12%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM & THEATRE: $25k → 7%ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC: $3k → 12%MIDCOAST SENIOR HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 7%ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC: $3k → 12%MIDCOAST ALS: $25k → 7%THE LANDING YMCA: $10k → 7%ALL SAINTS PARISH: $7k → 7%ALL SAINTS PARISH: $7k → 7%ROYAL RIVER COMMUNITY PLAYERS: $1k → 7%BOY & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $20k → 7%MAINE RED CLAWS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 7%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM & THEATER: $5k → 7%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM & THEATER: $5k → 7%PORTLAND LANDMARKS: $5k → 7%MAINE RED CLAWS FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $3k → 7%MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $5k → 7%MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $3k → 7%MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $3k → 7%MY PLACE TEEN CENTER: $5k → 7%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$221k · 10 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +138% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$221k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+26%

Still filing today

10%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM & THEATRE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $85k
  • PO
    PORTLAND OPERA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $29k
  • AY
    ALFOND YOUTH CENTER
    3× · 2017–2020 · $28k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • MS
    MIDCOAST SENIOR HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Coastal Kids Preschool

Provides an inclusive enriching learning environment for students 15 months to 7 years of age

Human Services
3
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
4
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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5
Bangor Young Men's Christian Association

The bangor region ymca is a community leader in supporting children, adults, and families in their lifelong quest for physical, emotional, and social wellness.

Human Services
6
Kids Corner Inc

To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.

Human Services
7
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…

Health
8
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
9
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
10
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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11
Midcoast Youth Center & skatepark

Our mission is to unlock the inherent potential of every young person, while empowering them to thrive.

Youth Development
12
Mt Desert Island Ymca

The mission of the Mount Desert Island YMCA is to develop community, character, personal growth and wellness in spirit, mind, and body for the greater Mount Desert Island community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; the most unlike its peers is Spindrift School of Performing Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM & THEATRE: $85,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUSEUM & THEATREMIDCOAST SENIOR HEALTH CENTER: $50,000 · OtherMIDCOAST SENIOR HEALTH CENTERPORTLAND OPERA: $29,150 · OtherPORTLAND OPERAIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAINE RED CLAWS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECT: $14,000 · OtherALL SAINTS PARISH: $14,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $11,000 · OtherMAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUSEUM & THEATER: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $21,750 · Other+6 moreALFOND YOUTH CENTER: $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentALFOND YOUTH CENT…BOY & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOY & GIRLS CLUB …MY PLACE TEEN CENTER: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMY PLACE TEEN CEN…THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentSPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS: $2,500 · Arts & CultureROYAL RIVER COMMUNITY PLAYERS: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 · Health
Other$294,900Youth Development$55,500Arts & Culture$3,500Health$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALFOND YOUTH CENTER: $28,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOY & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMY PLACE TEEN CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL RIVER COMMUNITY PLAYERS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds ALFOND YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOY & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN MAINE ↗
  • Who funds MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds MY PLACE TEEN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SPINDRIFT SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL RIVER COMMUNITY PLAYERS ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Davis Family Foundati…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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