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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.

$111k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Miller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthEnvironmentEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
FY2025still arriving24$111k8%
FY202422$110k5%
FY202321$94k19%
FY202223$76k30%
FY202116$75k38%
FY202015$79k47%
FY20194$67k50%
FY201813$87k69%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$372kEducation$107kRecreation & Sports$61kHealth$60kReligion$55kAnimals$38kFood & Nutrition$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
NE
TN
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($306k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Miller Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Blues Foundation Inc: $76,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetRiverside Park Conservancy Inc: $61,281 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJazz at Lincoln Center Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMarty Stuart Center for Country Music Inc: $44,278 over 2y, 11% of budgetSt Mark's School of Texas: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Will Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVisiting Nurse Service of New York: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arbutus Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDorot Inc: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Valley Animal Rescue and Sanctuary: $8,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDutchess County Spca Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetArhoolie Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHudson Valley Hospice Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Humane Society of New York: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFdny Foundation Inc: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDutchess Land Conservancy Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Haven Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Valley Clubhouse Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMusicians Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPuppy Kitty Ny City Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSocial Tees Animal Rescue Foundation In: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCountry Music Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Archive of Contemporary Music: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAls United Greater New York Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Center for Clubhouse Development Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Police Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 30.

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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.

Henry L Kimelman Family FoundationDE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 24 grants totaling $111,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Miller Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Education (14%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
Who are The Miller Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Blues Foundation Inc ($76k), Riverside Park Conservancy Inc ($61k), Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc ($55k).
Does The Miller Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Miller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Miller Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Henry L Kimelman Family Foundation, Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is The Miller Foundation based?
The Miller Foundation is based in NY.

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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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