· Private foundation
Brett and Kristine Milkie Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ST RAPHAEL CHURCH | $27,500 |
| ST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $2,500 |
| THE ALOE FAMILY | $2,500 |
| YOUTH CHALLENGE | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,000 |
| SOUTH EUCLID LYNDHURST SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIER PROJECT | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +37%- TGTHE GATHERING PLACE5× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +2%
- YCYOUTH CHALLENGE5× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- HLHOLY LOVE MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue +19%
- SESPROUT EXPERIENCEone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +2%
- CRCOMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
In response to god's call to love our neighbor, catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha enables the works of mercy to be received and lived.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The foundation is called by jesus christ: to promote the mission of the church in northern colorado by encouraging financial stewardship; to faithfully steward and distribute funds entrusted to the foundation; and to cooperate with…
Motivated by faith, catholic social services helps poor and vulnerable seniors and families reach their potential.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY LOVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds Aloe Family Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SPROUT EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEARTS LIFE MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CARING HEARTS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brett and Kristine Milkie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brett and Kristine Milkie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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