Delaware · Private foundation
Mark and Jessie Milano 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.
- $500k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $500k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $810k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $171k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $476k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $431k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $218k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $296k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $258k | 45% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Polytechnic State University Foundation | $1,100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Adventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley | $1,014,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The California 4-H Foundation | $553,435 | 9 | 13% |
| Tehachapi Mountain Rodeo Association | $160,100 | 8 | 10% |
| California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated | $82,500 | 2 | 6% |
| Support Stallion Springs Foundation | $26,500 | 2 | n/a |
| I'Sot Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Thomas Midnight Pewitt Memorial Ranch | $20,000 | 4 | 28% |
| Bakersfield College Foundation | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tehachapi Arts Foundation | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($230k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation 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.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation
- How much does Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation give?
- Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $499,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (32%), Youth Development (17%).
- Who are Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Polytechnic State University Foundation ($1.1M), Adventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley ($1.0M), The California 4-H Foundation ($553k).
- Does Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation based?
- Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation is based in DE.
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