· Public charity
The Miller Foundation
Fundraise to help children's hospital of orange county and provide scholarships for deserving students
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $250k+3 grants · $979k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACE MENTOR LOS ANGELES METROPOLITAN AREA INC | $393,850 |
| CHOC FOUNDATION | $325,000 |
| WISE PLACE | $260,000 |
| HOPE BUILDERS INC | $20,000 |
| MIND OC | $15,000 |
| HOMEAID ORANGE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| GOLDEN YEARS FOUNDATION | $3,250 |
| PENTA CARES FOUNDATION | $3,250 |
| BREAST CANCER ANGELS | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +66% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- CFCHOC FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +53%
- AMACE Mentor Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Inc5× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +69% · 49% of their budget
- WWISEPLACE5× · 2018–2023 · $285k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +9%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CPCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +53%
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.
To improve lives in orange county by delivering measurable long-term solutions to complex issues in education, financial stability, and housing. orange county united way (ocuw) is committed to breaking barriers and improving lives for…
The mission of nami orange county is to provide emotional support, education and resources for families, and those affected by mental illness. in collaboration with the entire community, we advocate for a life of quality and dignity, one…
To support local control and promote good governance & policy making among orange county leaders.
To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.
The mission of mariposa women and family center is to help women and families make positive changes in their lives.
Girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Grandma's house of hope empowers the invisible populations of orange county by providing emergency, bridge and transitional housing with trauma-informed supportive services to single individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
To ensure that every child in orange county arrives at school healthy and ready to succeed. we focus on the early years of a child's life, from birth to five, which is the most critical time in a child's development.
Our mission is to train people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities for success in life and work. We provide life empowering services to more than 450 adults with disabilities including employment, education, housing,…
To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Providers of Orange County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monarch Preschool Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACE Mentor Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Inc ↗
- Who funds WISEPLACE ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds MIND OC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER PROVIDERS OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GOALS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Monarch Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds Diabetes Camping & Education Services ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PENTA CARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ANGELS ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · California Community Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Oneoc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Foundation 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.