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Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$982k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of KALMAN & IDA WOLENS FOUNDATION CO JOE MILKES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $922k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON$200,000
CHILD CARE GROUP$200,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN$150,000
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$120,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$102,400
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES$100,000
NCJW OF GREATER DALLAS$50,000
VOGEL ALCOVE$25,000
NAVARRO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITT$10,000
CHAI$2,000
TEMPLE SHALOM$1,450
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $324k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VOGEL ALCOVE: $90k → 14%RED CROSS: $10k → 14%VOCAL ALCOVE: $25k → 14%VOCAL ALCOVE: $25k → 14%VOCAL ALCOVE: $10k → 14%VOCAL ALCOVE: $10k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DALLAS: $102k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS: $6k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 17 repeat orgs$662k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$5.7M
$580k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
-6%

Still filing today

53%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • C
    CHILDCAREGROUP
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +107%
  • CC
    CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +27%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $480k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN ARLINGTON
    one grant, 2020 · $167k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2018 · $151k
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCEL OF JEWISH WOMEN
    one grant, 2023 · $110k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Jewish Family Service

Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…

Human Services
2
Jewish Community Center of Dallas

The jcc of dallas brings the community together by providing state of the art facilities and exceptional programs in an inclusive environment defined by jewish values and culture.

Recreation & Sports
3
Dallas Jewish Historical Society

Educate the general public on contributions made by past generations of Jewish immigrants to Dallas as well as those contributions made by current jewish residents of Dallas.

Arts & Culture
4
Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas Foundation

The Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas Foundation is operated to support Jewish Family Service of Dallas, Inc. (JFS). The Foundation provides general and restricted support to assist JFS in fulfilling its mission to provide…

Human Services
5
North Dallas Food Pantry

North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.

Human Services
6
Dallas Jewish Community Foundation

To be your partner and trusted expert in charitable giving and effective philanthropy by empowering our community's charitable vision, safeguarding our community's resources and building enduring legacies.

Philanthropy
7
Jewish Food Society Inc

Jewish food society works to preserve and celebrate jewish culinary heritage from around the world in order to increase awareness and deepen connections to jewish life. jfs is committed to showcasing the diversity of the jewish experience,…

Arts & Culture
8
Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services
9
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
10
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
11
Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.

Human Services
12
Arlington Food Assistance Center

To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Allied Arts Foundation. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDCAREGROUP — $1,325,000 · OtherCHILDCAREGROUPUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON — $789,120 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTONNATIONAL COUNCIL JEWISH WOMEN GRTR — $774,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL JEWISH WOMEN GRTRNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $480,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $417,625 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN — $300,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMENUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN ARLINGTON — $166,859 · Other+13 more — $472,953 · Other+13 moreNational Council of Jewish Women Greater Dallas Section — $580,800 · Community ImprovementNational C…CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $500,000 · Food & NutritionVOGEL ALCOVE — $195,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $102,400 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC — $16,500 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC — $125,000 · Arts & CulturePLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $17,500 · Arts & CultureNAVARRO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationNANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES — $1,000 · EducationHIAS INC — $10,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $10,000 · InternationalREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$4,725,557Community Improvement$580,800Food & Nutrition$500,000Human Services$323,900Arts & Culture$142,500Education$21,000International$20,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDCAREGROUP — $1,325,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women Greater Dallas Section — $580,800 over 3y, 26% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $480,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $195,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC — $125,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $102,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAllied Arts Foundation — $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetNAVARRO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $17,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC — $16,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetA CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CHILDCAREGROUP
  • Who funds National Council of Jewish Women Greater Dallas Section
  • Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE
  • Who funds THE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
  • Who funds Allied Arts Foundation
  • Who funds NAVARRO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds HIAS INC
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
  • Who funds DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY
  • Who funds A CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
  • Who funds NANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mb and Edna Zale FoundationTX17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mb and Edna Zale Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Edward & Wilhelmina Ackerman Foundation · The Jeff & Bonnie Whitman Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 88%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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