Grants for Organizations

The Miller Foundation recently collaborated with the Oregon Community Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission to fund individual artists. Specifically, we participated in funding the Artist Relief Program and the Artist Resilience Program as part of our COVID-19 response efforts.

In 2024, the Miller Foundation will begin providing grants directly to individual artists. Please sign up here to receive updates on this program and other Foundation news.

‍Talk to us! We find it's helpful to chat with potential applicants before they start a fiscally sponsored funding request. To discuss whether your project is a good fit for Miller support via fiscal sponsorship, please contact our program team: grants@millerfound.org.

Requirements:

• ​The fiscal sponsor must be based in Oregon, with proven financial management experience.
• The fiscal sponsor's mission must align closely with the proposed sponsored work.
• Either the project is on a trajectory to become its own 501(c)(3) - or project leaders have proven experience related to the proposed work.
• The sponsored organization or project can demonstrate sustained community need and support for the proposed work.
• The fiscal sponsor's board chair and executive director, as well as the sponsored organization's leader, must sign and submit a fiscal sponsorship agreement to the Foundation.

A fiscal sponsor may apply for a Miller Foundation grant for its own work, in addition to applying as a fiscal sponsor of other projects.

The Miller Foundation currently funds several statewide institutions whose scope of activities extend beyond our current arts and education priorities, but which provide important support to these sectors. We fund Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the High Desert Museum, and the Oregon Coast Aquarium because they provide students and teachers a "classroom like no other" through on-site experiences, online resources, and teacher professional development, all of which connect to core academic subjects in our state’s schools. Oregon Public Broadcasting provides critical coverage of the arts and education in Oregon, keeping both those sectors and the general public informed and engaged.