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The Prescott Miller Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Prescott Miller Foundation Inc

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.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3.1M
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$4.9MArts & Culture$852kHealth$260kEnvironment$25kPhilanthropy$2k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.6M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$3,069,225
THE ATLANTA OPERA INC$500,000
BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE$100,000
MURPHY HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTER$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION$15,000
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $997k → 19%BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE: $100k → 12%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $100k → 10%THALIA & MICHAEL C CARLOS FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 13%RABUN GAP NACOOCHEE SCHOOL: $500k → 13%MURPHY HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTER: $20k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $100k → 27%BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE: $100k → 12%BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $20k → 10%SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 27%THE SHEPHERD CENTER: $90k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $15k → 27%THE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $500k → 13%STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN GEORGIA: $25k → 27%ATLANTA OPERA: $132k → 13%THE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $100k → 13%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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 4 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$1.2M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+29%

Still filing today

75%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TA
    THE ATLANTA OPERA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $732k · revenue +201%
  • BA
    BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue -19%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $140k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • The Florida State University Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $997k · revenue +29%
  • RG
    Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue -9%
  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -142%
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor college of medicine (bcm) is committed to advancing human health through the integration of patient care, research, education, and community services.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Thalia & Michael C Carlos Foundation in. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vanderbilt University: $3,069,225 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $997,248 · EducationThe Florida State University Foundation IncRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $500,000 · EducationRabun Gap-Nacoochee SchoolBELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC: $200,000 · Education+1 more: $140,000 · EducationTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $731,852 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLANTA O…BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $120,000 · OtherSTATE BOTANICAL GARDEN GEORGIA: $25,000 · OtherMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $90,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy
Education$4,906,473Arts & Culture$731,852Other$167,000Health$140,000Philanthropy$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University: $3,069,225 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $997,248 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $731,852 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHALIA & MICHAEL C CARLOS FOUNDATION IN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving 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 Prescott Miller Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Prescott Miller Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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 13 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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