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Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$982k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$4.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$982k31%
FY20249$625k33%
FY202311$908k18%
FY202210$912k20%
FY20217$580k29%
FY202012$817k58%
FY20198$558k25%
FY20188$589k63%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.2MCivil Rights$1.0MFood & Nutrition$985kEducation$977kReligion$780kHousing & Shelter$276kArts & Culture$48kInternational$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetDallas County Heritage Society: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Christian Food Pantry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNancy Lieberman Charities: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

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

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.

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About Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes

How much does Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes give?
Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes reported 13 grants totaling $981,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Civil Rights (17%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
Who are Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Childcaregroup ($1.3M), National Council of Jewish Women Greater Dallas Section ($581k), Crossroads Community Services Inc ($500k).
Does Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mb and Edna Zale Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation.
Where is Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes based?
Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation Co Joe Milkes is based in TX.

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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