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Milo Bekins 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TROOPREACH FOUNDATION | $42,134 |
| UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATIO | $25,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH | $20,000 |
| HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| OPTIMIST YOUTH HOMES AND FAMILY SER | $20,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $20,000 |
| THE THACHER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $15,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF LA FOUNDATIO | $15,000 |
| BORN FREE USA | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LODGE YOUTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| VINEYARD THEATRE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +3%
- HSHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +21%
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- OYOPTIMIST YOUTH HOMESone grant, 2021 · $30k
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN CAone grant, 2017 · $25k
- HEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +99%
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 central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
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Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Troopreach Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 71 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 43 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 UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TROOPREACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC LODGE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY OF ANGELS BALLET ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51 ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD THEATRE AND WORKSHOP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Operation Game On ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Born Free USA united with API ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY GUILD OF RANCHO SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS 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: California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Milo Bekins 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.
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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