Michigan · Private foundation
Milner Hotels Foundation
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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $31M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Milner Hotels Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $1.5M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $1.4M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $1.6M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $1.4M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $1.4M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $1.4M | 23% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $320k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Athletic Club Foundation | $1,233,000 | 8 | 26% |
| Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation | $1,000,000 | 4 | 4% |
| University Liggett School | $698,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Racquet Up Detroit | $606,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Cornell University | $516,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit Michigan | $452,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Detroit Historical Society | $423,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $368,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $368,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Detroit Zoological Society | $368,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Milner Hotels Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation · William Davidson Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About Milner Hotels Foundation
- How much does Milner Hotels Foundation give?
- Milner Hotels Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,660,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Milner Hotels Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (24%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are Milner Hotels Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Detroit Athletic Club Foundation ($1.2M), Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation ($1.0M), University Liggett School ($698k).
- Does Milner Hotels Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Milner Hotels Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Milner Hotels Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include DTE Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Skillman Foundation.
- Where is Milner Hotels Foundation based?
- Milner Hotels Foundation is based in MI.
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