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Milagro Foundation

The Milagro Foundation benefits underserved and vulnerable children around the world by making grants to community based tax-exempt organizations that work with children in the areas of education, health and the arts.

$320k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$698kHealth$373kYouth Development$285kArts & Culture$215kHuman Services$150kFood & Nutrition$120kEnvironment$75kReligion$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Three Square Food Bank$30,000
Turning Green$30,000
Hand in Hand$25,000
Canal Alliance$25,000
Performing Stars of Marin$25,000
Alive & FreeOmega Boys Club$25,000
Tenderloin Community Benefit District$25,000
Huckleberry Youth Programs$25,000
Project 150$25,000
Project Avary$25,000
Enriching Lives Through Music$15,000
Ambassadors of Hope & Opportunity$15,000
Los Cenzontles Mexican Art Center$15,000
Larkin Street Youth Services$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $25k → 10%Hand in Hand: $25k → 12%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $20k → 10%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $20k → 10%Hale Opio Kauai Inc: $15k → 9%Hale Opio Kauai: $10k → 9%Project 150: $25k → 13%Safe Nest: $10k → 13%Multicultural Center of Marin: $15k → 8%Project 150: $20k → 13%Larkin Street Youth Services: $15k → 10%Ambassadors of Hope & Opportunity: $15k → 8%Larkin Street Youth Services: $20k → 10%Larkin Street Youth Services: $10k → 10%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $15k → 8%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 8%Multicultural Center of Marin: $10k → 8%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 8%Parent Services Project: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
CT
CA
MD
DC
HI
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 25 repeat orgs$710k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
37

Total granted

$1.5M
$670k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+24%

Still filing today

96%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • 1D
    10000 DEGREES
    5× · 2019–2024 · $230k · revenue +101%
  • OG
    OPERATION GENESIS INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +641%
  • MP
    MARIN PERFORMING STARS
    3× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TD
    TiopaSantuario de Luz A C
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • VC
    VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • HI
    HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
2
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
3
Oakland Kids First

The mission of Oakland Kids First is to increase youth voice, leadership and power to create engaging and equitable public schools where all students learn and lead.

Youth Development
4
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
5
The Kids Co-op Inc Dba Mariposa Kids

Support and inspire children's natural curiosity and independence through free play during their out-of-school time.

Education
6
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
7
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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8
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
Partnership for Children & Youth

By strategically linking people, practice and policy, we make sure that children and youth in the most under-resourced communities receive quality expanded learning opportunities and that all their learning environments school, afterschool…

Community Improvement
11
Community Action Marin

We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.

Human Services
12
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Community Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Figo Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr17%45%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr12%8%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
16%
13,008/83,798

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 65 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $130,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTTiopaSantuario de Luz A C — $100,000 · OtherTiopaSantuario de Luz A CLittle Stars India — $30,000 · OtherPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $55,000 · OtherPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT…Alive and Free — $45,000 · OtherHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $40,000 · OtherCANAL ALLIANCE — $60,000 · OtherCANAL ALLIANCEBridge the Gap College Prep — $35,000 · OtherNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation — $55,000 · OtherNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit C…EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 · OtherWomens Audio Mission — $30,000 · Other+22 more — $290,000 · Other+22 moreHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH …LITTLE WISHES — $50,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE WISHESLarkin Street Youth Services — $45,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Yout…PROJECT 150 — $45,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 150AMBASSADORS OF HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY — $35,000 · Human ServicesAMBASSADORS OF HOP…HAND IN HAND — $25,000 · Human ServicesHAND IN HANDHALE OPIO KAUAI INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesHALE OPIO KAUAI IN…The Multicultural Center of Marin — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Multicultural …GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $20,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS INCORPORATED…+2 more — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more10000 DEGREES — $230,000 · Education10000 DEGREESMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · EducationMARIN HORIZON SC…THE MOSAIC PROJECT — $30,000 · EducationTHE MOSAIC PROJE…+2 more — $20,000 · Education+2 moreTurning Green — $75,000 · HealthVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $30,000 · HealthBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $20,000 · HealthOPERATION GENESIS INC — $120,000 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,750 · PhilanthropyAmbassadors of Hope Inc — $15,000 · PhilanthropyFIGO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMARIN PERFORMING STARS — $85,000 · Arts & CultureANDY VARGAS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureEnriching Lives Through Music — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLos Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center — $15,000 · Arts & CultureZUMIX INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHREE SQUARE — $70,000 · Food & NutritionExtrafood — $35,000 · Food & NutritionEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$900,000Human Services$370,000Education$330,000Health$175,000Philanthropy$170,750Arts & Culture$160,000Food & Nutrition$120,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget10000 DEGREES — $230,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION GENESIS INC — $120,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMARIN PERFORMING STARS — $85,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTurning Green — $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $55,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE WISHES — $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT 150 — $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAlive and Free — $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMBASSADORS OF HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY — $35,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetExtrafood — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep — $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MOSAIC PROJECT — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWomens Audio Mission — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN HAND — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHALE OPIO KAUAI INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPLAY MARIN — $25,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetANDY VARGAS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetThe Multicultural Center of Marin — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUSTICE IN MOTION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCinnamongirl Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFIGO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE NESTTEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARENT SERVICES PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUCSF FOUNDATION INVESTMENT COMPANY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZUMIX INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Leonard & Beryl Buck …Bothin FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Fullerton Family Foun…Crescent Porter Hale …The Morris Stulsaft F…East Bay Community Fo…The Keith Campbell Fo…McNabb Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA31.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Fullerton Family Foundation · Crescent Porter Hale Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · McNabb Foundation

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 Milagro 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Milagro Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Milagro 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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