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The Miller-Wehrle Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$240k
Granted FY2022
24
Grants FY2022
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Miller-Wehrle Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Miller-Wehrle Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 22 organizations, $240k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Philanthropy$5.0MInternational$360kCivil Rights$340kEnvironment$100kHealth$95kYouth Development$75kCrime & Legal$60kArts & Culture$55kOther$0
02FY2022 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k13 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS$50,000
TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER$30,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$15,000
DC JUSTICE LAB$10,000
NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE$10,000
SMYAL$10,000
USA FOR UNHCR$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$10,000
COALITION OF IMMOKELEE WORKERS$10,000
MOUNTAIN STATE SPORTSLIGHT$10,000
SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT$10,000
CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS$5,000
SHORERIVERS INC$5,000
APPALACHIAN VOICES$5,000
CASA$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $10k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $5k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $5k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $5k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $5k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $5k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $5k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $5k → 14%GIVE DIRECTLY INC: $20k → 17%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $5k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%HIPS: $5k → 14%HIPS: $5k → 14%HIPS: $5k → 14%HIPS: $5k → 14%SMYAL: $10k → 14%HIPS: $5k → 14%SMYAL: $10k → 14%SMYAL: $10k → 14%HIPS: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 33 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
21

Total granted

$1.1M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+37%

Still filing today

85%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsCrime & LegalInternationalEmploymentOther

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

  • United States Association for UNHCR
    6× · 2017–2022 · $165k · revenue +54%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +98%
  • National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • SU
    SWEET UNION BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • GIVEDIRECTLY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -32%
  • PI
    PSEPHOS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -70%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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5
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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6
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
7
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
10
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
11
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportLgbtq+ Community Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr14%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%5%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr14%83%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,308

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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $5,024,532 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FDUnited States Association for UNHCR — $165,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $95,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $35,000 · InternationalNEW YORK ABORTION ACCESS FUND — $60,000 · OtherCASA INC — $45,000 · OtherSWEET UNION BAPTIST CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherBAY JOURNAL FUND — $20,000 · OtherThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc — $55,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $50,000 · OtherFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop — $25,000 · OtherPROJECT CREATE — $25,000 · OtherMountain State Spotlight Inc — $20,000 · Other+20 more — $175,000 · OtherNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $80,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $35,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center — $30,000 · Civil RightsPSEPHOS INC — $15,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CIVIC DESIGN INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $10,000 · Civil RightsSylvia Rivera Law Project Inc — $75,000 · Crime & LegalCAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $30,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalDC JUSTICE LAB — $15,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $35,000 · Human ServicesSMYAL Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesHIPS — $30,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT — $5,000 · Human ServicesAPPALACHIAN VOICES — $25,000 · EnvironmentSHORERIVERS INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentPotomac Riverkeeper Network — $20,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentWestern Pennsylvania Fund for Choic — $5,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$5,024,532International$295,000Other$500,000Civil Rights$180,000Crime & Legal$145,000Human Services$145,000Environment$105,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $5,024,532 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $165,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSylvia Rivera Law Project Inc — $75,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK ABORTION ACCESS FUND — $60,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc — $55,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCASA INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSMYAL Inc — $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHIPS — $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTransgender Law Center — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT CREATE — $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPotomac Riverkeeper Network — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMountain State Spotlight Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPSEPHOS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDC JUSTICE LAB — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLIFT INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC DESIGN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAN OPEN BOOK FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…Amalgamated Charitabl…The Morris and Gwendo…Open Society InstituteSilicon Valley Commun…The Rockefeller Found…Tikkun Olam Foundatio…Rockefeller Philanthr…Public Welfare Founda…United Way of the Nat…Borealis PhilanthropyTides Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC23.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Open Society Institute · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Tikkun Olam Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Borealis Philanthropy · Tides Foundation

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-Wehrle Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home