Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation

Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation

Richard Worley and Leslie Anne Miller launched their eponymous foundation in 1997, anchoring their philanthropy in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. The couple's wealth stems from Worley's career in investment management — he remains managing partner of Permit Capital LLC and serves on the board of Neuberger Berman — and Miller's distinguished legal practice. Their giving is concentrated in education, the arts, and human services, with Philadelphia institutions as the primary beneficiaries. The foundation operates through direct grants rather than program-related investments or recoverable grants. Its deployment pattern is defined by high-conviction, transformative gifts to a handful of major institutions. The most visible commitment is a $25 million naming gift to the Philadelphia Orchestra, an institution Worley served as board chair (per public record). Sustained support flows to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where Miller held the board chair role, alongside educational and human-services organizations in the greater Philadelphia region. The foundation does not publicize a formal investment strategy for its corpus, but Worley's deep ties to Neuberger Berman and Permit Capital suggest a professionally managed, likely conservative, endowment portfolio. The foundation is a compact operation with no separate institutional staff publicly identified. Worley and Miller serve as trustees, maintaining the same direct, personal approach that characterizes their board leadership at Philadelphia's flagship cultural institutions. Their broader wealth constellation includes residential properties in Bryn Mawr, Nantucket, and Hobe Sound, Florida, along with a significant collection of American art and furniture. Both are elected members of the American Philosophical Society, an honor reserved for distinguished achievement across disciplines. The foundation's structural character is inseparable from the couple's overlapping civic roles. Their philanthropy and board service weave a dense institutional fabric — Miller chaired one institution the foundation supports, Worley chaired another. This dual posture, combining donor largesse with hands-on governance, places the foundation at the center of Philadelphia's cultural funding landscape while keeping its own operations intentionally minimal and private.