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Milnel Foundation Inc

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.

$34k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$260kHuman Services$147kEducation$55kEnvironment$21kRecreation & Sports$13kInternational$5kSocial Science$5kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$319k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JHPIEGO$11,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS$10,000
VARIOUS CHARITIES$2,311
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$500
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 (FY20–20, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 29% of Milnel Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Milnel Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.3% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$297k · 7 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$297k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+32%

Still filing today

43%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalSocial ScienceOther

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

  • JC
    JHPIEGO CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue -30%
  • TM
    THE MCDONOGH SCHOOL FUND
    4× · 2017–2020 · $25k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • AC
    ATLANTIC CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • LT
    Lutherville Timonium Recreation Councilgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +32%

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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
4
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
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JHPIEGO CORPORATION — $218,944 · OtherJHPIEGO CORPORATIONTHE MCDONOGH SCHOOL FUND — $25,000 · OtherTHE MCDONOGH SCHOOL FUNDJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE — $20,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINEATLANTIC CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP — $17,258 · Other+11 more — $46,131 · Other+11 moreNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation — $147,495 · Crime & LegalNational Law Enforcement and Fi…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationTuskegee University — $5,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $4,250 · EducationLutherville Timonium Recreation Council — $8,661 · Recreation & SportsBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 · HealthULMAN FOUNDATION INC — $500 · HealthHELPING INDIA TOGETHER — $5,000 · InternationalTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · Social ScienceMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $100 · Human Services
Other$327,333Crime & Legal$147,495Education$29,250Recreation & Sports$8,661Health$5,500International$5,000Social Science$5,000Human Services$100

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 budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION — $218,944 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation — $147,495 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLutherville Timonium Recreation Council — $8,661 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $3,320 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetULMAN FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds JHPIEGO CORPORATION
  • Who funds National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Lutherville Timonium Recreation Council
  • Who funds HELPING INDIA TOGETHER
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds Tuskegee University
  • Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
  • Who funds THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds ULMAN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Milnel 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 65%
  • Jhpiego Corporation65% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 25 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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