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The Onerva Laine Miller Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Onerva Laine Miller Charitable Trust

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.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$262kReligion$66kCommunity Improvement$20kEnvironment$10kEducation$8kHuman Services$3kArts & Culture$2kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$135k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
JOEY'S FOUNDATION$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
THE CENTER FOR SPRITUALITY IN NATURE$5,000
WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$5,000
THE BRICK COMPANY FOUNDATION$3,000
TIMPVIEW HIGH SCHOOL$2,000
BLACK WOMEN THRIVING EAST OF RIVER$1,030
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%LAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%THE CENTER FOR SPRITUALITY IN NATURE: $6k → 7%THE BRICK COMPANY FOUNDATION: $4k → 6%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%LAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%THE CENTER FOR SPRITUALITY IN NATURE: $5k → 7%THE BRICK COMPANIES FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE LAM FOUNDATION: $9k → 16%THE CENTER FOR SPRITUALITY IN NATURE: $5k → 7%THE BRICK COMPANY FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE LAM FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%THE CENTER FOR SPRITUALITY IN NATURE: $4k → 7%THE BRICK COMPANY FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE LAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%THE CENTER FOR SPRITUALITY IN NATURE: $4k → 7%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16k → 14%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%JOEY'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10k → 14%WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $7k → 14%JOEY'S FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%JOEY'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5k → 14%WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5k → 14%JOEY'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5k → 14%JOEY'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WESLEY SEMINARY: $5k → 14%JOEY'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5k → 14%JOEY'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5k → 14%JOEY'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$346k · 8 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$346k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyInternationalReligionArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SM
    SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +157%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +95%
  • JR
    JOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR SPRITUALITY
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • TB
    THE BUICK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Abim Foundation

See schedule o.as an operating charity, the abim foundation develops and implements projects in support of our mission to advance the core values of medical professionalism as a force to improve the quality of health care.

Health
4
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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5
University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.

Health
6
The Institute for Ethnomedicine Inc Dba Brain Chemistry Labs

The institute for ethnomedicine searches for new cures by studying plant medicine and patterns of wellness and disease among indigenous people.

Health
7
Salem Health Foundation

The salem health foundation is dedicated to raising, managing and distributing funds to help salem health achieve its mission of improving the health and well-being of the people and community it serves.

Health
8
Johns Hopkins All Children's Foundation Inc

Johns hopkins all children's foundation, inc. supports the mission of johns hopkins all children's hospital, inc., all children's health system, inc., all children's research institute, inc. and other 501(c)(3) organizations through…

Health
9
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
10
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
11
Gates Medical Research Institute

The gates mri engages directly in the conduct of medical research in conjunction with one or more hospitals for the purpose of addressing major causes of illness and death in low-and lower-middle-income countries.

Health
12
American College of Radiology Foundation

The mission of the acr foundation is to advance the profession and practice of radiology to benefit patients with a specific emphasis on health policy research.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Pan American Medical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $104,000 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $61,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONJOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 · HealthJOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $1,500 · HealthWESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE METHODIST CHURCH: $42,000 · OtherWESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEM…THE BRICK COMPANY FOUNDATION: $13,000 · OtherTHE BRICK COMPANY FOUN…UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…THE CENTER FOR SPRITUALITY: $3,000 · OtherTHE BUICK FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Other+3 more: $4,030 · Other+3 moreThe LAM Foundation: $44,850 · PhilanthropyThe LAM Foundati…THE BRICK COMPANIES FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BRICK COMPAN…+2 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR SPIRITUALITY IN NATURE: $26,500 · ReligionTHE HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDAION INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · InternationalARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $500 · InternationalMONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalRaising A Village Foundation: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Health$212,500Other$75,030Philanthropy$55,350Religion$26,500Arts & Culture$2,000International$1,500Crime & Legal$1,000Community Improvement$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $104,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetThe LAM Foundation: $44,850 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR SPIRITUALITY IN NATURE: $26,500 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetTHE BRICK COMPANIES FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDAION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Onerva Laine Miller Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Onerva Laine Miller Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 24 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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