How much does The Patricia Florence Miller Trust give?

The Patricia Florence Miller Trust reported 61 grants totaling $293,095 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Patricia Florence Miller Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Animals (99%), Public Benefit (0%), Health (0%).

Who are The Patricia Florence Miller Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Heartland Humane Society Ltd ($101k), Last Chance for Animals ($18k), Friends of Animals Inc ($16k).

Does The Patricia Florence Miller Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Patricia Florence Miller Trust 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 Patricia Florence Miller Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr, Bradford Family Foundation, The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation.

Where is The Patricia Florence Miller Trust based?

The Patricia Florence Miller Trust is based in IA.

The Patricia Florence Miller Trust

The Patricia Florence Miller Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Patricia Florence Miller Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$293k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Animals$630kPublic Benefit$3kHealth$1kHuman Services$500

02FY2023 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,800

Median grant

States reached

$18k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Iowa Farm Sanctuary	$9,970
Individual grant recipient	$7,300
Bideawee	$7,300
Speak Up for Horses	$7,300
Guardians of Rescue	$7,300
Save-a-Pet Animal Rescue	$7,300
Animals Angels	$7,300
Mercy for Animals	$6,800
Last Chance for Animals	$6,800
Feeding Pets of the Homeless	$6,800
PAWS & More Animal Shelter	$6,800
Animal Equality	$6,800
Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary	$6,800
Friends of Animals	$6,800
Equine Advocates	$6,800

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$443k · 55 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$443k

$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+18%

Still filing today

62%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

LC
Last Chance for Animals
4× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +2%
FO
FRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +4%
AC
Alley Cat Allies Inc
4× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +104%

Funded once

HH
HEARTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY LTDgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $101k · revenue +220% · 37% of their budget
NB
NEW BEGINNINGS PET RESCUE OF THE QU
one grant, 2021 · $4k
AA
Animals' Angels Incorporatedgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +53%

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.

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Animal Angels

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Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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Hope for China Dogs Rescue

At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…

Animals

Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals

Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals

The Animal Rescue League

Animals

Runaways Animal Rescue

Animals

The Animal Welfare Foundation

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit dba Caru Spca

The Animal Legal Defense Fund Cruelty Prevention Unit's primary mission is to prevent cruelty to animals.

Human Services

Idaho Animal Rescue Network

Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Defenders of Animal Rights Inc; the most unlike its peers is Keepers of the Wild. 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

57 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. 57 of the 103 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/57

Grantees still filing

46/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$404,372Other$225,923Public Benefit$2,850Health$1,250

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

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.

PC Fund for Animals Charitable TrWY53.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Bradford Family Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Duncans and Tuquis Legacy Organization Dba Datlo · Butchkie Foundation Inc · Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund

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 Patricia Florence Miller Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Patricia Florence Miller Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$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