· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADVENTIST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER TEHACHAPI | $200,000 |
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $27,500 |
| THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TEHACHAPI MOUNTAIN RODEO ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FLIGHT TEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $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 (FY18–18, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- AHAdventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley4× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +28%
- TCTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $553k · revenue +49%
- TMTEHACHAPI MOUNTAIN RODEO ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- LFLAST FRONTIER HEALTHCARE DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $42k
- III'SOT INCone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -72%
- TATEHACHAPI ARTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $16k
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.
To help develop veterinarians and fund research in Thoroughbred equine care and breeding within California.
The butte county sheriff's mounted posse was founded in december 1941 after the start of world war ii to fill the void left by deputies enlisted in the military. the posse was the first butte county volunteer organization. the objective of…
The Chico Air Museum was founded to collect, preserve, document and display artifacts significant to the rich aviation and aerospace history of the Chico Army Air Field and the North Valley.
Educate the public on, and support the heritage and promotion of, the Clovis rodeo; provide student scholarships and resources for education in the areas of agriculture, livestock, and rodeo; provide resources for the enhancement and…
The museum offers a variety of public tours, educational events, lectures, field trips and exhibits that promote the increased knowledge and appreciation of the cultural and natural history of the upper mojave desert.
Train Officers and Horses for patrol and crowd control training
Rodeo museum
To preserve, promote and encourage artistic expression in and of the Amargosa Desert. This mission is expressed through the presentation and interpretation of a 8-acre outdoor sculpture park and an artist residency program in the Museum's…
Engage alumni to advance support of UC Berkeley.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Canines and More Being Rescued in America. 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 18 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Adventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEHACHAPI MOUNTAIN RODEO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated ↗
- Who funds I'SOT INC ↗
- Who funds Thomas Midnight Pewitt Memorial Ranch ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MODOC COUNTY SHERIFF'S POSSE ↗
- Who funds MODOC COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE CANINE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds FLIGHT TEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION MORELIA USA INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
- Who funds RISING STAR RIDERS ↗
- Who funds Crisis Pregnancy Center of Tehachapi ↗
- Who funds TEHACHAPI ARTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds MODOC HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Bart J Ruggiere Adaptive Sports Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ↗
- Who funds TOHONO CHUL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds CANINES AND MORE BEING RESCUED IN AMERICA ↗
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.
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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 Mark and Jessie Milano 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.
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.