Texas · Private foundation
The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $389k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $775k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $383k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $434k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $529k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $236k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $174k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $159k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrench It Forward | $364,500 | 6 | 23% |
| The Navigators | $362,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Texas Girls and Boys Ranch | $280,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Grace Campus | $73,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Focus on the Family | $70,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Parenting Cottage | $36,100 | 5 | 2% |
| Malta Farms Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 2% |
| East-West Ministries International | $30,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Apostolos | $27,500 | 5 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrench It Forward | $364,500 | 6 | 23% |
| The Navigators | $362,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Texas Girls and Boys Ranch | $280,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Grace Campus | $73,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Focus on the Family | $70,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Parenting Cottage | $36,100 | 5 | 2% |
| Malta Farms Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 2% |
| East-West Ministries International | $30,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Apostolos | $27,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Antioch Ministries International | $27,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Lubbock Dream Center | $26,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Freedom in Jesus Ministries Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 3% |
| High Point Village Inc | $24,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Word of Life Inc | $12,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Nicks Differently Awesome Outreach Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 18% |
| Love the Hub Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Backyard Mission | $11,250 | 3 | 5% |
| The Bridge of Lubbock Inc | $7,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Lubbock Police Foundation | $7,500 | 4 | 36% |
| The Evangelical Free Church of America | $7,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Church of the Nations | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Cornerstone Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| First Responder Ministries Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($412k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of West Texas · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Matthew 633 Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Ch Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation
- How much does The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation give?
- The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $389,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Religion (17%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
- Who are The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Wrench It Forward ($365k), The Navigators ($363k), Texas Girls and Boys Ranch ($280k).
- Does The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of West Texas, Diekemper Family Foundation Inc, HDS Foundation.
- Where is The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation based?
- The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation is based in TX.
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