Skip to content
William F & Patricia L Miller Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$307k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$596kEducation$589kPhilanthropy$169kHousing & Shelter$150kArts & Culture$116kRecreation & Sports$103kCrime & Legal$40kReligion$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $252k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WILLIAMS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (KU)$5,000
BOOKER T WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $50 → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $11k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $4k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $1k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $3k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $155 → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $77 → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $77 → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $70 → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $100 → 14%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

MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
NE
VA
KS
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 40 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
46

Total granted

$1.6M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+32%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +152%
  • TE
    THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $189k · revenue +20%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $102k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • PB
    PARKLAND BREAST CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Artgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +445%
  • DM
    DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
Dallas County Medical Society

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.

—
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
4
Texas Tribune Inc

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…

Education
5
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

—
6
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

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.…

Civil Rights
7
Center for Public Policy Priorities

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…

Public Benefit
8
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

—
9
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

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.

—
10
Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health
11
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

—
12
Texas Association of Business

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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; 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.
04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 103 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
40/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UT SOUTHWESTERN: $200,000 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERNTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $188,700 · OtherTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INCMETRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE (HOUSING FORWARD): $150,000 · OtherMETRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE (HOUSING FORWARD)Texas Women's Foundation: $120,250 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationCRISTO REY DALLAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $109,397 · OtherCRISTO REY DALLAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $61,120 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TX: $55,250 · OtherPARKLAND BREAST CENTER: $50,000 · Other+61 more: $236,254 · Other+61 moreSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN …HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,895 · Education+7 more: $10,563 · EducationCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $102,118 · HealthCHILDREN'S M…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $93,500 · HealthPLANNED PARE…+5 more: $3,550 · HealthCircuit Trail Conservancy: $100,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $4,091 · Community ImprovementDALLAS CONTEMPORARY: $64,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of Art: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $4,625 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $4,777 · Arts & CultureDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $46,001 · PhilanthropyHEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS: $3,075 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,600 · PhilanthropyDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $36,191 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $3,124 · Human Services+2 more: $150 · Human Services
Other$1,170,971Education$218,458Health$199,168Community Improvement$104,091Arts & Culture$88,402Philanthropy$51,676Human Services$39,465

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $188,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $120,250 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $102,118 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCircuit Trail Conservancy: $100,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $93,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CONTEMPORARY: $64,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $46,001 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $36,191 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $20,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,895 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $4,625 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $3,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Family Place: $3,124 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS: $3,075 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $3,075 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInnocence Project of Texas: $2,591 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA FILM FESTIVAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECT: $1,602 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTREAM FOUNDATION: $1,575 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,545 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Appleseed: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF DALLAS/FORT WORTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Radio International Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUEST: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDCAREGROUP: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $577 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN TEXAS - PICO: $575 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS FRIENDS OF YOUNG LIFE INC: $350 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTY IN THE PINES FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $250 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 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 HEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Eugene McDermott …Kline Family Foundati…The Addy FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Hegi Family FoundationThe Perot FoundationHarry S Moss Foundati…Theodore and Beulah B…Byrne Family Foundati…
The Dallas FoundationTX35.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William F & Patricia L Miller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William F & Patricia L Miller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 William F & Patricia L Miller Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to William F & Patricia L Miller Family 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 103 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on William F & Patricia L Miller Family’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home