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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| THE DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $75,000 |
| MCLAREN MACOMB FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| DETROIT OPERA THEATRE | $50,000 |
| THE GROSSE POINTE WAR MEMORIAL | $50,000 |
| RACQUET UP DETROIT | $50,000 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| MUSIC HALL | $50,000 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- DADETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +129% · 26% of their budget
- URURBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +188%
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL5× · 2018–2022 · $698k · revenue +19%
Funded once
Cornell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $516k · revenue +46%- HSHOPE SHELTERSone grant, 2024 · $30k
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +345%
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 chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
Detroit regional chamber foundation, inc. (the "foundation") is dedicated to growing programs or initiatives that are important to ensuring the detroit region's economy is one of the fastest growing in the u.s.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Grosse Pointe Park Foundation. 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 57 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 54 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 DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds OLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds THE HUNDRED CLUB OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Milner Hotels Foundation 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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