· Private foundation
Michelson Medical Research Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+5 grants · $40M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION - CIII | $20,000,000 |
| The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc | $8,300,000 |
| Michelson Philanthropies Inc | $8,200,000 |
| THE MICHELSON 20MM FOUNDATION INC | $2,700,000 |
| CA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY | $1,000,000 |
| THE MILKEN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| THE UC REGENTS (UCLA) | $8,700 |
| THE SURGERY EDUCATION FUND (FUND 15) | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMICHELSON PHILANTHROPIES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $16M · revenue +448% · 100% of their budget
- TMTHE MICHELSON 20MM FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +139% · 98% of their budget
- TMTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE3× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +23%
Funded once
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCEone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +13%- KSKEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGYone grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue +22%
- ASAMERICA SHARE USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +55%
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
To promote and advance the microbial sciences
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE MICHELSON FOUND ANIMALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHELSON PHILANTHROPIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHELSON 20MM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN IMMUNOME PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA ON MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SHARE USA INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Inner City Law Center ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARDLY GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds LATINO MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Michelson Philanthropies Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michelson Medical Research Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michelson Medical Research Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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