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Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MHealth$1.1MYouth Development$557kRecreation & Sports$186kArts & Culture$44kCommunity Improvement$27kReligion$25kPhilanthropy$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION$10,000
THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION$8,000
FLIGHT TEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION$5,000
BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION$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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ISOT: $25k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 18 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

$3.2M
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+13%

Still filing today

50%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • AH
    Adventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley
    4× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +28%
  • TC
    THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $553k · revenue +49%
  • TM
    TEHACHAPI MOUNTAIN RODEO ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • LF
    LAST FRONTIER HEALTHCARE DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $42k
  • II
    I'SOT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -75%
  • TA
    TEHACHAPI ARTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $16k
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
California Thoroughbred Foundation

To help develop veterinarians and fund research in Thoroughbred equine care and breeding within California.

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2
Butte County Sheriff's Mounted Posse

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Chico Air Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Chase Ranch Foundation
Human Services
5
Turlock Education Opportunity Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
6
Clovis Rodeo Association Foundation

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Maturango Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Sacramento Police Mounted Association

Train Officers and Horses for patrol and crowd control training

Crime & Legal
9
Red Bluff Round Up Rodeo Museum & Hs

Rodeo museum

Arts & Culture
10
Goldwell Open Air 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…

Arts & Culture
11
Under the Sun Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Cal Bears in the Desert

Engage alumni to advance support of UC Berkeley.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Adventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley: $1,014,000 · OtherAdventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Advent…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY - LOS ANGELES: $148,150 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY - LOS ANGELESCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated: $82,500 · OtherCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Associa…+26 more: $216,900 · Other+26 moreCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSI…+2 more: $22,368 · EducationTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $553,435 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H…TEHACHAPI MOUNTAIN RODEO ASSOCIATION: $160,100 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsI'SOT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureTEHACHAPI ARTS COMMISSION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMODOC COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE CANINE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · AnimalsCANINES AND MORE BEING RESCUED IN AMERICA: $1,000 · Animals
Other$1,461,550Education$1,122,368Youth Development$553,435Recreation & Sports$164,600Human Services$25,000Arts & Culture$16,500Animals$11,000

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 budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAdventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley: $1,014,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $553,435 over 9y, 13% of budgetTEHACHAPI MOUNTAIN RODEO ASSOCIATION: $160,100 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated: $82,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetI'SOT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThomas Midnight Pewitt Memorial Ranch: $20,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMODOC COUNTY SHERIFF'S POSSE: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetKERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFLIGHT TEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION MORELIA USA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMODOC HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCrisis Pregnancy Center of Tehachapi: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTexas Book Festival: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $2,368 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $1,000 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.

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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 Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 41 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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