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The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation

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.

$3.7M
Granted FY2022
9
Itemized grants FY2022
9
Organizations funded FY2022
11%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$268k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$202,320
Organizations funded a year
9 to 18
FY2019 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Total assets, FY2022
$9.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 11% of the organizations The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalAnimalsOther
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
FY20229$268k11%
FY202111$295k18%
FY202018$321k72%
FY201918$198kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$702kArts & Culture$196kHealth$108kPublic Benefit$38kEducation$29kHuman Services$20kReligion$13kInternational$12kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMiller Family Foundation: $606,960 over 3y, 75% of budgetRaymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $109,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $44,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $37,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPromise Fund of Florida Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $18,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMorselife Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Israel Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHer Story Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHawken School: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHerizon Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Atlantic University Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrightfocus Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTri County Humane Society: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $100 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 25.

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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How do I get to The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation

How much does The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation give?
The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $267,820, out of $3,708,944 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
What does The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (4%), Arts & Culture (1%), Health (1%).
Who are The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: Miller Family Foundation ($607k), Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc ($110k), Norton Museum of Art Inc ($75k).
Does The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sydell & Arnold Miller 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 Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation based?
The Sydell & Arnold Miller Foundation is based in OH.

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 35 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $148k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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