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Lance and Hillary Milken Foundation at a glance

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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.

$801k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.3MEducation$988kReligion$560kSocial Science$326kHealth$170kHuman Services$128kArts & Culture$65kInternational$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $413k
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$1,800
Median grant
5
States reached
$13M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 100% of reported assets are held in Np1 Llc.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CITY YEAR INC$5,000
PHASE ONE$5,000
PRESENT NOW$5,000
ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY$5,000
BABY2BABY$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRESENT NOW: $14k → 14%JOIN ISRAEL: $500 → 6%PRESENT NOW: $8k → 14%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $500 → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $250 → 14%LYNNE COHEN FOUNDATION FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH: $1k → 14%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%PRESENT NOW: $5k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $3k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $3k → 14%ANGEL CITY SPORTS: $500 → 14%ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY: $5k → 14%ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY: $4k → 14%ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY: $3k → 14%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

MN
MI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NC
DC
LA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 25 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
18

Total granted

$2.1M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-1%

Still filing today

72%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureRecreation & 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

  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $573k · revenue +28%
  • TM
    THE MILKEN INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $326k · revenue +182%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES BALLET INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -12%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -51%
  • WC
    WEST COAST LACROSSE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -82%
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
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
2
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
3
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
5
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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8
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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9
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 66 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
27/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $860,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $524,480 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLETHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $326,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTETHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $220,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELESTHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $140,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION+22 more: $190,510 · Other+22 moreBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $572,500 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $388,700 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF P…+3 more: $24,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $71,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $7,790 · PhilanthropyCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $33,500 · HealthPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $14,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING BEAUTY DBA LIVING BEAUTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,500 · HealthBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Health+10 more: $10,550 · HealthLOS ANGELES BALLET INC: $62,250 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePRESENT NOW: $36,000 · Human ServicesORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY: $11,000 · Human ServicesVISIONARY WOMEN: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $2,750 · Human ServicesTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsWEST COAST LACROSSE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,260,990Education$985,200Philanthropy$78,790Health$67,050Arts & Culture$64,750Human Services$54,750Recreation & Sports$17,500

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 budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $572,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $388,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $326,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $71,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES BALLET INC: $62,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPRESENT NOW: $36,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $33,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY: $11,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING BEAUTY DBA LIVING BEAUTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWEST COAST LACROSSE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetVISIONARY WOMEN: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Heritage Programs: $3,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC VICTORY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA DELTA TAU FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNNE COHEN FOUNDATION FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE 2 BE ME DANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJOIN ISRAEL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngel City Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransplant Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eric Jason Bader Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $250 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 Community Foun…The Michael and Lori …California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Richard and Ellen San…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA24.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lance and Hillary Milken Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lance and Hillary Milken Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 Lance and Hillary Milken Foundation 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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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