· Private foundation
William F & Patricia L Miller Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of WILLIAM F & PATRICIA L MILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $252k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $51,118 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $50,500 |
| METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE (HOUSING FORWARD) | $50,000 |
| DALLAS CONTEMPORARY | $17,500 |
| CRISTO REY DALLAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BOOKER T WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WILLIAMS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (KU) | $5,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $4,210 |
| JOHN S BRADFIELD SCHOOL PTA | $3,371 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT OF TEXAS | $2,591 |
| TACA (THE ARTS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE) | $1,500 |
| TEXAS APPLESEED | $1,500 |
| DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,200 |
| SOS OUTREACH | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SMSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +152%
- TETHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $189k · revenue +20%
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $102k · revenue +209%
Funded once
- PBPARKLAND BREAST CENTERone grant, 2021 · $50k
- DMDallas Museum of Artgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +445%
- DMDALLAS MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2023 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Faith in Texas - Pico. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
58 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. 58 of the 103 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Women's Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Circuit Trail Conservancy ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Kline Family Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hegi Family Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Harry S Moss Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Byrne Family Foundation Trust
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization William F & Patricia L Miller Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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