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Abby S & Howard P Milstein Foundation Howard P Milstein Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$561k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$18MHealth$6.2MCivil Rights$2.3MArts & Culture$1.6MCrime & Legal$200kReligion$50kFood & Nutrition$20kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$360,009
Median grant
1
States reached
$852k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$561,054
CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA$360,009
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$355,730
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC$7,915
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 (FY23–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $6k → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
VA
MD
AR
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 11 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$28M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+16%

Still filing today

64%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyRecreation & 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

  • Cornell University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +59%
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +76%
  • AS
    AMERICAN SKIN ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +47% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $711k
  • NY
    NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $472k · revenue +81%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +26%
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Every Chld Is Ours Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $12,178,414 · EducationCornell UniversityThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,865,115 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations+6 more: $362,698 · EducationWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $3,995,762 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEHarvard Law School: $2,275,000 · OtherHarvard Law SchoolWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER: $711,460 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER+12 more: $797,481 · Other+12 moreAMERICAN SKIN ASSOCIATION INC: $1,336,250 · HealthNEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC: $472,021 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION: $120,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $951,669 · International+1 more: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $50,000 · Civil RightsJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $16,000 · Philanthropy
Education$18,406,227Other$7,779,703Health$1,808,271Arts & Culture$1,370,500International$971,669Civil Rights$50,000Philanthropy$16,000

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 budgetCornell University: $12,178,414 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,865,115 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN SKIN ASSOCIATION INC: $1,336,250 over 7y, 30% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $951,669 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC: $472,021 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $75,948 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetEVERY CHLD IS OURS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEnable Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $6,435 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST CATHERINES PARK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EMELIN THEATRE: $500 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Abby S & Howard P Milstein Foundation Howard P Milstein Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abby S & Howard P Milstein Foundation Howard P Milstein Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Abby S & Howard P Milstein Foundation Howard P Milstein Trustee 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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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