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Wayne & Nelda Miley Family 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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$19kArts & Culture$12kHousing & Shelter$7kEducation$6kFood & Nutrition$1kSocial Science$400Health$300Civil Rights$200
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$155k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WRKF$3,500
HOPE MINISTRIES$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$404
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WESTAR INSTITUTE: $400 → 9%AMFAR: $300 → 17%COOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP: $300 → 16%DHARMAHORSE EQUINE SANCTUARY: $802 → 23%CORNERSTONE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH: $800 → 19%ALLIANCE OF BAPTISTS: $100 → 14%LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $300 → 19%YOUTH CHOIRS: $360 → 16%DHARMAHORSE EQUINE SANCTUARY: $668 → 23%WRKF: $4k → 19%DHARMAHORSE EQUINE SANCTUARY: $449 → 23%LSU FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%DHARMAHORSE EQUINE SANCTUARY: $404 → 23%WRKF: $2k → 19%DHARMAHORSE EQUINE SANCTUARY: $300 → 23%LSU FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%WRKF: $1k → 19%WRKF: $1k → 19%WRKF: $300 → 19%WRKF: $300 → 19%ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2k → 19%STJAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $768 → 19%ARTS COUNCIL OF BATON ROUGE: $500 → 19%UNITARIAN CHURCH: $2k → 19%UNITARIAN CHURCH: $1k → 19%UNITARIAN CHURCH: $1k → 19%UNITARIAN CHURCH: $400 → 19%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $300 → 19%BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1k → 19%BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1k → 19%BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1k → 19%BROADMOOR BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 19%BROADMOOR BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 19%BROADMOOR BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 19%BROADMOOR BAPTIST: $2k → 19%GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK: $1k → 19%BROADMOOR BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 19%BROADMOOR BAPTIST: $1k → 19%HOPE MINISTRIES: $2k → 19%HOPE MINISTRIES: $2k → 19%HOPE MINISTRIES: $2k → 19%HOPE MINISTRIES: $1k → 19%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41k · 9 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$41k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+12%

Still filing today

33%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PR
    PUBLIC RADIO INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +61%
  • HM
    HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue -14%
  • BB
    BROADMOOR BAPTIST CHURCH
    4× · 2020–2023 · $7k

Funded once

  • GB
    GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +12%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • CM
    CORNERSTONE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $800
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROADMOOR BAPTIST CHURCH: $7,000 · OtherBROADMOOR BAPTIST CHURCHUNITARIAN CHURCH: $3,900 · OtherUNITARIAN CHURCHST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3,768 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCHBATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3,000 · OtherBATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAIndividual grant recipient: $2,623 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+8 more: $2,900 · Other+8 morePUBLIC RADIO INC: $8,100 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC RADIO INCYOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE: $360 · Arts & CultureHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE MINISTRIES …LSU FOUNDATION: $3,400 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $300 · Health
Other$27,691Arts & Culture$8,460Housing & Shelter$7,000Education$3,400Health$300

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 budgetPUBLIC RADIO INC: $8,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION: $3,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestar Institute: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE: $360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $300 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.

  • Who funds PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE ↗
  • Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Westar Institute ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗

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.

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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 Wayne & Nelda Miley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne & Nelda Miley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 21 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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