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The Perry and Barbara Miller 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,087,761
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,087,761
Organizations funded a year
1 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPublic BenefitAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY20231$1.1M100%
FY20221$5k0%
FY20218$40k0%
FY202025$71k28%
FY201918$60k22%
FY201820$57k45%
FY201716$53kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.1MFood & Nutrition$54kHousing & Shelter$44kReligion$37kHuman Services$32kAnimals$30kHealth$27kYouth Development$21kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
IN
CA
MO
MD
KS
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$15,00030%
The Salvation Army$14,0004n/a
Hope Horses & Kids$13,00042%
Judicial Watch Inc$13,00030%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$7,00020%
Animal Friends Rescue Project$7,00031%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$6,00020%
Gary Sinise Foundation$5,00020%
Kinship Center$4,0004n/a
Cato Institute$3,00020%
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All grantees of The Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$15,00030%
The Salvation Army$14,0004n/a
Hope Horses & Kids$13,00042%
Judicial Watch Inc$13,00030%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$7,00020%
Animal Friends Rescue Project$7,00031%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$6,00020%
Gary Sinise Foundation$5,00020%
Kinship Center$4,0004n/a
Cato Institute$3,00020%
Hospice Giving Foundation$2,00010%
International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc$1,00010%
COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association$1,00010%
Peace of Mind Dog Rescue$1,00010%
Smile Train Inc$1,00010%
Finca International Inc$1,00010%

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHope Horses & Kids: $13,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Friends Rescue Project: $7,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCato Institute: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Giving Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Fund for Animal Welfare Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace of Mind Dog Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFinca International Inc: $1,000 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 14.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About The Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation

How much does The Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation give?
The Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,087,761 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (79%), Food & Nutrition (4%), Housing & Shelter (3%).
Who are The Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($15k), The Salvation Army ($14k), Hope Horses & Kids ($13k).
Does The Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Perry and Barbara Miller Family 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 Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation based?
The Perry and Barbara Miller Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 38 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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