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.

Milner Hotels Foundation

Milner Hotels Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$3.1MArts & Culture$2.5MRecreation & Sports$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.4MYouth Development$636kCommunity Improvement$452kAnimals$368kPublic Safety & Disaster$198kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k7 grants · $150k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.0M
$250k+2 grants · $500k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$31M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION	$50,000
DETROIT OPERA THEATRE	$50,000
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$50,000
THE GROSSE POINTE WAR MEMORIAL	$50,000
OLD NEWSBOYS' GOODFELLOW FUND DETROIT	$50,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS	$50,000
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY	$50,000
MUSIC HALL	$50,000

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.8M · 30 repeat orgs$772k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.8M

$692k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+54%

Still filing today

67%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

DA
DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +129% · 26% of their budget
UR
URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION
4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +188%
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL
5× · 2018–2022 · $698k · revenue +19%

Funded once

Cornell Universitygraduated
one grant, 2020 · $516k · revenue +46%
HS
HOPE SHELTERS
one grant, 2024 · $30k
SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSE
one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%

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.

Detroit Regional Chamber

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.

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Detroit Athletic Club

To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.

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Delta Dental Fund

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.

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The Jewish Fund

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…

Philanthropy

Delaware Valley University

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…

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Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment

The University of Toledo Foundation

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…

Education

Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement

Harvard Club of Washington Dc

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.

Education

Furman University

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.

Education

University Corporate Research Park I Inc

To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; 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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 54 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/32

Grantees still filing

23/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,710,500Education$2,603,000Arts & Culture$1,662,000Philanthropy$1,128,000Community Improvement$627,000Recreation & Sports$616,000Human Services$455,500

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

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.

DTE Energy FoundationMI21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Milner Hotels Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milner Hotels Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

4report 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.

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