· Private foundation
Lance and Hillary Milken Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $413k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
Anchored by a single position — about 100% of reported assets are held in Np1 Llc.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $280,000 |
| WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE | $107,520 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $83,700 |
| MILKEN INSTITUTE | $67,000 |
| BRENTWOOD SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| PENN HILLEL | $18,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| LOS ANGELES BALLET | $11,500 |
| UCLA MATTEL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| PHASE ONE | $5,000 |
| BABY2BABY | $5,000 |
| ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY | $5,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $5,000 |
| PRESENT NOW | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $573k · revenue +28%
- TMTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $326k · revenue +182%
- LALOS ANGELES BALLET INC5× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- TLTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -12%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -51%
- WCWEST COAST LACROSSE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -82%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pediatric Victory Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 66 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds PRESENT NOW ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHASE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING BEAUTY DBA LIVING BEAUTY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST COAST LACROSSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISIONARY WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Jewish Heritage Programs ↗
- Who funds BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYNNE COHEN FOUNDATION FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC VICTORY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation
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 Lance and Hillary Milken Foundation 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.
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