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Milbank Memorial Fund

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.

$79k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$2.0MEducation$648kHealth$219kScience & Tech$45kReligion$32kArts & Culture$30kCrime & Legal$15kInternational$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$96M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$20,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$10,000
BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC$5,000
YALE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$5,000
SILOAM HEALTH$5,000
YALE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$5,000
BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC$5,000
UNITED HOSPITAL FUND$5,000
HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE$4,000
SALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH$3,000
IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY PROJECT$2,500
SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL$2,500
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$2,500
THE CHAPIN SCHOOL$1,500
OPEN DOOR CLINIC$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%Pine Street Inn: $250 → 16%Crossroads Rhode Island: $1k → 14%Nonviolence Institute: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Milbank Memorial Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Milbank Memorial Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$611k · 18 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
43

Total granted

$611k
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+14%

Still filing today

83%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $409k · revenue +34%
  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +11%
  • BS
    BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • VF
    VOICES FOR OUR FATHERS LEGACY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -96% · 94% of their budget
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2022 · $168k
  • SU
    Southern University and A&M College Nelson Mandela College of Government a
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
6
New York University

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.

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 71 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VOICES FOR OUR FATHERS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · OtherVOICES FOR OUR FATHERS LEGACY FOUNDATIONTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $409,324 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY: $168,350 · OtherWASHINGTON HEALTH CARE AUTHORITYSouthern University and A&M College Nelson Mandela College of Government a: $100,000 · Other+39 more: $173,112 · Other+39 moreThe George Washington University: $25,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $12,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $6,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $4,500 · Education+4 more: $4,500 · EducationNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $45,000 · Science & TechBLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $620 · Arts & CultureInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,250 · International+2 more: $450 · InternationalUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · HealthSWEET READERS INC: $4,500 · HealthCommunity Health Services of Addison Cty Inc: $2,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC: $500 · HealthVillage Center for Care Fund: $2,000 · PhilanthropyAHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$2,850,786Education$72,500Science & Tech$45,000Arts & Culture$29,620International$13,700Health$13,000Philanthropy$3,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOICES FOR OUR FATHERS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $409,324 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe George Washington University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDGE DAVID L BAZELON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LIFE EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET READERS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Services of Addison Cty Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVillage Center for Care Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOPHIA ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATTACH: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKAWAY YOUTH TASK FORCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBORDER TAILS RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $259 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHASE EMERSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRINCETON MONTESSORI SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $120 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.

The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundAmica Companies Found…The Ford FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
The New York Community TrustNY12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Amica Companies Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Milbank Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milbank Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report 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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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