The Mark and Kathie Miller Foundation
Holladay, UT · EIN 87-0676533. Reported 53 grants totalling $1,174,789 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Mark and Kathie Miller Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $6,000 and $33,333; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $83,334. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Center | Salt Lake City, UT | $211,667 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nature Conservancy | Salt Lake City, UT | $162,243 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House | Salt Lake City, UT | $151,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Univesity of Utah Health Care Moran Eye Center | Salt Lake City, UT | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $107,071 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| YWCA | Salt Lake City, UT | $76,103 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Natural History Museum of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Cancer Society | Salt Lake City, UT | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Way of Greater Salt Lake | Salt Lake City, UT | $29,446 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Artspace | Salt Lake City, UT | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Building Youth Around the World | West Jordan, UT | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Utah Mccluskey Center for Violence Prevention | Salt Lake City, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Utah Golf Foundation | Millcreek, UT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Utah Royal Kids | Sandy, UT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake | Murray, UT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Univerity of Utah College of Nursing | Salt Lake City, UT | $14,259 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hogle Zoo | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Family Support Center | Taylorsville, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utah Clean Energy | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Museum of Fine Arts | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross | Salt Lake City, UT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eye Care 4 Kids | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Children - Utah | Kearns, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Park City Community Foundation | Park City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Inn Between | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Utah Philanthropy Day | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fourth Street Clinic | Salt Lake City, UT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
13 of 28 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 60%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Nature Conservancy
321 Shares of Peloton Interactive Inc, Publically Traded NASDAQ: PTON, for genral use. - The Children's Center
142 Shares of Peloton Interactive Inc. Publically Traded NASDAQ: PTON, for general use.$220.64 General Cash Donation$30,000 General Cash Donation - YWCA
335 Shares of Peloton Interactive Inc, Publically Traded NASDAQ: PTON, for general use.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10 | $211,676 | $14,629 |
| 2022 | 15 | $263,333 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 14 | $311,667 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 14 | $388,113 | $20,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Utah.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Mark and Kathie Miller Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2551 East Brentwood Drive, Holladay, UT, 84121. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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