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Virts Miller Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$312k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$941kEducation$472kArts & Culture$428kYouth Development$112kPhilanthropy$80kInternational$76kHuman Services$35kCrime & Legal$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY$200,000
MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SHADE$10,000
MOBILE HOPE$10,000
A FARM LESS ORDINARY$10,000
TOL MINISTRIES$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAQUIER COUNTIES$10,000
VIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION$10,000
THE FAMILY ONE$5,000
LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$4,330
RIVERSIDE PRESYBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,500
SHENANDOAH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$2,000
PURCELLVILLE MAIN STREET$1,500
LOUDOUN MUSEUM$1,250
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MOSAIC VIRGINIA: $100k → 6%THE FAMILY ONE: $5k → 4%THE FAMILY ONE: $3k → 4%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $10k → 4%TOL MINISTRIES: $10k → 4%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $10k → 4%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.

Which US states its grants reach

PA
CA
MO
WV
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 16 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
32

Total granted

$1.2M
$980k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+26%

Still filing today

94%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • MF
    MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +16%
  • SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $208k · revenue +1%
  • LE
    LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +315%

Funded once

  • IL
    INOVA LOUDOUN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $286k
  • IL
    INOVA LOUDOUN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $270k
  • LL
    LIFE LINE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +109%
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
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
Loudoun Healthcare Foundation

Undertake and assist in the identification, cultivation, encouragement and solicitation of all types of gifts and the management of trust and endowment funds for the benefit of inova loudoun hospital

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3
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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4
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
5
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
8
Washington University of Virginia

Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs

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9
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
10
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
11
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
12
Institute for Public Health Innovation

Iphi develops multi-sector partnerships and innovative solutions to improve the public's health and well-being across maryland, virginia and the district of columbia. our work strengthens health systems and policy, enhances conditions that…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts; the most unlike its peers is Philomont Village Foundation. 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

31 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. 31 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INOVA LOUDOUN HOSPITAL: $285,715 · OtherINOVA LOUDOUN HOSPITALINOVA LOUDOUN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $270,000 · OtherINOVA LOUDOUN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONA PLACE TO BE: $154,740 · OtherA PLACE TO BEVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR HEALTHY YOUTH: $52,315 · Other+31 more: $223,867 · Other+31 moreMIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL: $225,000 · Arts & CultureMIDDLEBURG FILM FEST…Loudoun Museum Inc: $84,261 · Arts & CultureLoudoun Museum IncOATLANDS INC: $53,000 · Arts & CultureOATLANDS INCWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION…VIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $207,500 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNI…THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG: $60,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOO…FUTURE KINGS INC: $15,000 · EducationLOUDOUN BAR FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $186,530 · PhilanthropyLOUDOUN EDUC…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES: $55,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FO…LIFE LINE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesA FARM LESS ORDINARY: $20,000 · Human ServicesTOL Ministries Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Family One: $8,000 · Human ServicesLUCKETTS RURITAN CLUB INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $64,250 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $35,976 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $60,366 · Religion
Other$986,637Arts & Culture$407,261Education$294,000Philanthropy$241,530Human Services$143,000Health$130,226Religion$60,366

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL: $225,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $207,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $186,530 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetA PLACE TO BE: $154,740 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetLIFE LINE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLoudoun Museum Inc: $84,261 over 5y, 33% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $64,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $60,366 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES: $55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOATLANDS INC: $53,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $35,976 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA FARM LESS ORDINARY: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFUTURE KINGS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLOUDOUN BAR FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetTOL Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOLARS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSHADE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJust Neighbors Ministry Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKETTS RURITAN CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…The Bank of Clarke Co…Greater Washington Co…Fauquier Health Found…Dominion Energy Chari…The O'Shaughnessy-Hur…Major Family Foundati…The Luminescence Foun…Jack Kent Cooke Found…United Way of the Nat…The Harmon Foundation
Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier CountiesVA34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The O'Shaughnessy-Hurst Memorial Foundation Inc · Major Family Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Jack Kent Cooke Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Harmon 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 Virts Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virts Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Virts Miller Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Virts 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 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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