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Milch Family Foundation

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.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0174% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$118kArts & Culture$45kHealth$23kReligion$20kEducation$10kScience & Tech$10kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$112,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK$112,700
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $3k → 6%DARCHEI TORAH: $5k → 13%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM: $10k → 17%US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $10k → 14%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $10k → 11%NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $10k → 8%DARCHEI TORAH: $5k → 13%YIVO JEWISH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $10k → 14%RABBI SHMUEL STTRICKMAN: $3k → 13%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM: $10k → 17%BNAI BRITH INTERNTIONAL: $200 → 13%YIVO JEWISH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM: $5k → 17%GLOBAL GOODS PARTNERS INC: $1k → 17%GLOBAL GOODS PARTNERS INC: $500 → 17%UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK: $113k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $1k → 17%MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200 → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%MINT THEATER COMPANY: $300 → 17%JDRF IMPROVE LIVES CURE TYPE 1 DIABETES: $10k → 17%BEIT HALOCHEM - FRIENDS OF DISABLED VETERANS: $10k → 17%JDRF NATIONAL: $10k → 17%BEIT HALOCHEM - FRIENDS OF DISABLED VETERANS: $5k → 17%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219k · 8 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$219k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+43%

Still filing today

63%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2018–2024 · $118k · revenue +22%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +25%
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +42%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
8
Wisdom Without Walls Inc

Wisdom without walls is a nonprofit, nondenominational, online learning community that hosts intimate conversations with the most prominent voices in contemporary jewish thought, fostering discussions without ideological barriers.

Religion
9
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
10
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Global Goods Partners Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $117,700 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTH…YIVO JEWISH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $20,000 · OtherYIVO JEWISH RESEARCH INSTITUTEBEIT HALOCHEM - FRIENDS OF DISABLED VETERANS: $15,000 · OtherBEIT HALOCHEM - FRIENDS OF DISABL…DARCHEI TORAH: $10,000 · OtherDARCHEI TORAHNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RE…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJDRF IMPROVE LIVES CURE TYPE 1 DIABETES: $10,000 · OtherJDRF IMPROVE LIVES CURE TYPE 1 DI…Individual grant recipient: $3,000 · Other+1 more: $200 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FO…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States H…+1 more: $300 · Arts & CultureTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 · HealthYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationGLOBAL GOODS PARTNERS INC: $1,500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200 · International
Philanthropy$117,700Other$78,200Arts & Culture$45,300Health$12,500Education$10,000International$2,700

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $117,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL GOODS PARTNERS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINT THEATER COMPANY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Milch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Milch Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Milch Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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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