· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $572k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERLOO LEISURE SERVICES | $400,000 |
| UNI FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| ALLEN FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| YWCA | $275,000 |
| RIVER HILLS SCHOOLS | $150,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK | $150,000 |
| IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $145,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $76,564 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WATERLOO PUBLIC LIBRARY | $36,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING | $25,000 |
| JESUP COMMUNITY RECREATION DEPT | $25,000 |
| TRY PIE | $25,000 |
| JOB FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CEDAR VALLEY BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY | $16,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $955k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CVCEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $840k · revenue +65%
- IHIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY4× · 2021–2025 · $570k · revenue +104%
- NINORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- ACALLEN COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -13%
- HOHOUSE OF HOPEone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
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.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Child day care center
Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.
Supports adults with disabilities to live and work as independently as possible in the community of their choice.
To empower individuals with disabilities to control their lives.
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
To provide employment for the disabled.
Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.
ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 74 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DIAMONDS AND FIELDS ↗
- Who funds Beaus Beautiful Blessings Inc ↗
- Who funds JOB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RETRIEVING FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE TRP INC ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds TRY PIE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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