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The Miller Foundation

Fundraise to help children's hospital of orange county and provide scholarships for deserving students

$1.0M
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
9
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$393,850
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$966k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Miller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEmploymentHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20239$1.0M67%
FY20227$852k29%
FY20214$440k0%
FY20205$35k40%
FY20199$568k67%
FY20185$405kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Health$1.4MEducation$1.3MHousing & Shelter$300kYouth Development$278kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$5kPhilanthropy$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Choc Foundation$1,379,17561%
ACE Mentor Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Inc$1,235,025549%
Wiseplace$285,00058%
Orangewood Foundation$272,37631%
Agc Construction Educational Foundation$35,00022%
Hope Builders Inc$20,0001n/a
Mind Oc$15,00010%
Brymax Construction - 2019 Toy Sponsorship$10,5002n/a
Shelter Providers of Orange County Inc$10,00010%
Regents of the University of California$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of The Miller Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Choc Foundation$1,379,17561%
ACE Mentor Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Inc$1,235,025549%
Wiseplace$285,00058%
Orangewood Foundation$272,37631%
Agc Construction Educational Foundation$35,00022%
Hope Builders Inc$20,0001n/a
Mind Oc$15,00010%
Brymax Construction - 2019 Toy Sponsorship$10,5002n/a
Shelter Providers of Orange County Inc$10,00010%
Regents of the University of California$10,0001n/a
Community Action Partnership of Orange County$10,00010%
Goals for Life Foundation Inc$10,00024%
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc$7,00010%
Diabetes Camping & Education Services$5,00011%
Girls Incorporated of Orange County$5,00010%
Monarch Preschool Inc$5,00012%
Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc$5,00010%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California$5,00010%
Penta Cares Foundation$3,25010%
Golden Years Foundation$3,2501n/a
Breast Cancer Angels$1,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

The Miller Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChoc Foundation: $1,379,175 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetACE Mentor Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Inc: $1,235,025 over 5y, 49% of budgetWiseplace: $285,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetOrangewood Foundation: $272,376 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAgc Construction Educational Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMind Oc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelter Providers of Orange County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Action Partnership of Orange County: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoals for Life Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDiabetes Camping & Education Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Orange County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMonarch Preschool Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Southern California: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPenta Cares Foundation: $3,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreast Cancer Angels: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Miller Foundation

How much does The Miller Foundation give?
The Miller Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,031,350 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Miller Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (42%), Education (40%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are The Miller Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Choc Foundation ($1.4M), ACE Mentor Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Inc ($1.2M), Wiseplace ($285k).
Does The Miller Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Miller Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Edwards Lifesciences Foundation, California Community Foundation.
Where is The Miller Foundation based?
The Miller Foundation is based in CA.

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 21 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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