· Private foundation
Milano Foundation Inc
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 $10k19 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KCRW FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SILVER LAKE CHILDRENS THEATRE GROUP | $5,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| DAP HEALTH INC | $5,000 |
| LAMBDA ARCHIVES OF SAN DIEGO | $5,000 |
| THE L FUND | $4,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE DESERT | $4,000 |
| SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC | $3,000 |
| COLLEGIATE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES | $3,000 |
| PROVIDENCE SAINT JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| SILVER LAKE CHILDRENS THEATRE GROUP | $3,000 |
| HPZ | $1,000 |
| FOTOKIDS INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
46 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 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; $3k 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
- TNThe New School4× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +24%
- KFKCRW FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +9%
- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +18%
- CACENTRAL ASIA INSTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angelesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +78%
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
Building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete members of society. since its inception, the los angeles lgbt center (center) has been building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete…
The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Lambda legal defense and education fund, inc. is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and anyone living with hiv through impact litigation,…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 69 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 The New School ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DAP Health Inc ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD ↗
- Who funds OUTFEST ↗
- Who funds FUND ARTS NOW ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X ↗
- Who funds THE L-FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds SILVERLAKE CHILDRENS THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Childrens Medical Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NEW WEST CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lambda Archives of San Diego ↗
- Who funds THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Liberty Hill Foundation · Western Wind Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Milano Foundation Inc 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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