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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
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$202k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2022.

Philanthropy$697kArts & Culture$196kHealth$39kCommunity Improvement$38kInternational$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kHuman Services$15kEducation$6kMembership Benefit$650Other$89k
02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $267,820 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,708,944 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,441,124 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $202k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Miller Family Foundation$202,320
Norton Museum of Art$15,000
Breast Cancer Research Foundation$10,000
American Friends of The Hebrew University$10,000
Planned Parenthood (South, East, and North Florida)$10,000
Palm Beach Civic Association$9,000
Town of Palm Beach United Way$8,000
Hawken School$3,000
Connections Education Center of Palm Beach$500
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$981k · 13 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
20

Total granted

$981k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+67%

Still filing today

69%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
HealthArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MF
    Miller Family Foundation
    3× · 2020–2022 · $607k · revenue +21% · 75% of their budget
  • RF
    RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $110k · revenue +20%
  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $75k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • PF
    PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +225%
  • MF
    MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +19%
  • SG
    Susan G. Komen for the Cure
    one grant, 2020 · $15k

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

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
3
Plainview Hospital

Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
5
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
6
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
7
Phelps Memorial Hospital Association

Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
8
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
9
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
10
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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11
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
12
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Miller Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChildhood Cancer SupportJewish Community FederationsCharter and Independent Sch…Food Pantries and AssistanceAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development CentersCommunity Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsUnited Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr14%35%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr20%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr14%64%20–35yr16%14%35–55yr20%18%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,278

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
24/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Miller Family Foundation — $606,960 · PhilanthropyMiller Family FoundationJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INCTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $44,700 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way IncRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $109,900 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CE…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF AR…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CulturePlanned Parenthood (South, East, and North Florida) — $25,000 · OtherPlanned Par…Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Palm Beach) — $20,000 · OtherDana Farber…Susan G. Komen for the Cure — $15,000 · OtherSusan G. Ko…The Gathering Place — $10,100 · OtherThe Gatheri…Hawken School — $5,000 · OtherHerizon Inc — $5,000 · OtherPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · OtherMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · OtherMORSELIFE F…HAWKEN SCHOOL — $5,500 · Other+8 more — $4,650 · OtherPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · HealthHER STORY INC — $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $3,500 · Health+3 more — $550 · HealthPalm Beach Civic Association Inc — $37,500 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $17,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $10,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,800 · InternationalTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $18,800 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$696,660Arts & Culture$195,900Other$110,250Health$39,050Community Improvement$37,500International$29,300Public Safety & Disaster$18,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $45,000 over 1y, 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 MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHER STORY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHerizon Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% 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 budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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