· Private foundation
The Miller Foundation
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 $10k17 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $25,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION RE STEVE MILLER SCHOLARSHIP | $15,000 |
| ST MARK'S FUND | $12,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART DEPT OF MUSICAL INSTRUM | $10,000 |
| JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER | $10,000 |
| MT SINAI DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| MARTY STUART'S CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSIC | $3,000 |
| DELTA BLUES MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| PUPPYKITTYNYCITY | $1,000 |
| MUSIC WILL (FORMERLY LITTLE KIDS ROCK) | $1,000 |
| FDNY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MJHS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY CLUBHOUSE | $1,000 |
| UNION VALE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- TBThe Blues Foundation Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $76k · revenue +59%
- RPRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $61k · revenue +52%
- MSMARTY STUART CENTER FOR COUNTRY MUSIC INC2× · 2017–2018 · $44k · revenue ×59
Funded once
- SMST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXASone grant, 2019 · $32k · revenue +12%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +76%
- TATHE ARBUTUS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +99%
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.
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The hip hop museum preserves the past, celebrates the present, and leads the global future of hip hop, inspiring, educating, and empowering all.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
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."
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 47 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 The Blues Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTY STUART CENTER FOR COUNTRY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARBUTUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds Arhoolie Foundation ↗
- Who funds Hudson Valley Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FDNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPY KITTY NY CITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL TEES ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION IN ↗
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: Henry L Kimelman Family Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.
- University of Miami — 5% 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.