Iowa · Private foundation
Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation
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.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $36,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $2.1M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.6M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $1.3M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.3M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $988k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $1.5M | 36% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $762k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $329k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Valley Hospice Inc | $840,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity | $570,000 | 4 | 6% |
| North Star Community Services Inc | $417,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Northeast Iowa Food Bank | $335,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Cedar Valley Irish Cultural Association | $330,500 | 7 | 41% |
| Americans for Independent Living | $150,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Family & Children's Council of Black Hawk County | $115,000 | 7 | 10% |
| Diamonds and Fields | $100,000 | 2 | 34% |
| Beaus Beautiful Blessings Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 27% |
| Job Foundation | $80,000 | 6 | 6% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Cedar Valley United Way · The Braun Family Foundation · Pauline R Barrett Charitable Foundation · Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust · The Gallagher Family Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc · Molinaro Family Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $2,143,564 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Health (15%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cedar Valley Hospice Inc ($840k), Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity ($570k), North Star Community Services Inc ($417k).
- Does Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Van G Miller Family Charitable 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 Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation, Lsb Foundation, Otto Schoitz Foundation.
- Where is Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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