How much did Milagro Foundation grant in FY2024?

Milagro Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $415,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Milagro Foundation based?

Milagro Foundation is based in CA.

Milagro Foundation

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· Public charity

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.

$415k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$80k

Largest

01What you fund

0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$330kHuman Services$265kPhilanthropy$171kHealth$95kArts & Culture$90kFood & Nutrition$90kInternational$75kYouth Development$58kCrime & Legal$55kOther$678k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

youth

2020

promotionmarin

2021

disasterpromotion

2022

musicwishesequitystudentsyouth

2023

parentsyouth agesfreeleadersleadershipgroupsoffer encourage

2024

diversebecomecomprehensivedifferentlargerexistsocioeconomic backgrounds

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k16 grants · $335k
$50k–250k1 grant · $80k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

10000 Degrees$80,000
Carlos Santana Arts Academy$40,000
Little Wishes$30,000
Tenderloin Community Benefit District$30,000
Little Stars India$30,000
Andy Vargas Foundation$25,000
Extra Food$25,000
Conscious KitchenTeens Turning Green$25,000
Hippo Water Rollers$20,000
Bay Area Community Resources$20,000
Mosaic Project$20,000
Cinnamongirl Inc$15,000
Hale Opio Kauai Inc$15,000
Safe Nest$10,000
Play Marin$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 19 repeat orgs$886k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$736k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+68%

Still filing today

89%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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 +74%
OG
Operation Genesis Inc
3× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +641%
HY
Huckleberry Youth Programs
4× · 2018–2023 · $55k · revenue +68%

Funded once

TD
TiopaSantuario de Luz A C
one grant, 2017 · $100k
VC
VIP Community Mental Health
one grant, 2019 · $50k
PS
Performing Stars of Maringraduated
one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +124%

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.

Oakland Kids First

Oakland Kids First is a community-based nonprofit in Oakland, CA that empowers young people to reimagine broken systems and organize for equitable public schools by providing youth leadership development, youth organizing, and community…

Youth Development

Transportation Alternatives for Marin

Public Benefit

East Bay Agency for Children

East Bay Agency for Children ("EBAC") improves the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health

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

Old Skool Cafe

Old Skool Cafe is a faith-based violence prevention program, providing marketable and transferable employment skills to underserved youth. Our social enterprise restaurant is a hub for youth employment and positive change in the lives of…

Youth Development

Enterprise for Youth

Engage & empower sf youth on a path to economic independence through training and internships.

Youth Development

Marin Theatre Company

Marin theatre company produces world-class theatre for the county of marin and bay area communities. mtc strives to set a national standard for intimate theatre experiences of the highest quality, featuring provocative plays by passionate…

Arts & Culture

Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services

San Francisco Coalition of Essential

The Mission of SF-CESS is to interrupt and transform current and systemic educational inequities to ensure all students have access to personalized, equitable and high performing schools that believe and demonstrate each student can,…

Education

Mission Kids

Our mission is to support multicultural, income-diverse families in San Francisco through inclusive, bilingual, play-based early education.

Education

Children's Council of San Francisco

Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.

Human Services

Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem. We embed legal navigation support in community-based settings by training and supporting frontline partners.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parent Services Project and the most unlike its peers is Spread the Word Nevada. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/47

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,931

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.

05the grantee network

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

40/43

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$865,000Education$330,000Human Services$265,000Philanthropy$170,750Health$95,000Arts & Culture$90,000Food & Nutrition$90,000

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.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA32.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Fullerton Family Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Crescent Porter Hale Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area

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 organisation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Andy Vargas Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 475244907 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Andy Vargas Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Milagro Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Milagro Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Milagro Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Milagro Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Milagro Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Milagro Foundation?

More from the funding graph