California · Private foundation
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.
- $327k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $42,134
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Milo Bekins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | $327k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $280k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $285k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $262k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $306k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $291k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $277k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $296k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Redlands | $190,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Harvard-Westlake School | $165,000 | 9 | 0% |
| California Science Center Foundation | $155,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pepperdine University | $140,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Troopreach Foundation | $137,134 | 6 | 89% |
| Music Academy of the West | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Assistance League of Los Angeles | $130,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc | $110,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pacific Lodge Youth Services | $90,000 | 5 | 100% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($496k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Milo Bekins Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Milo Bekins Foundation
- How much does Milo Bekins Foundation give?
- Milo Bekins Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $327,134 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Milo Bekins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Human Services (22%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are Milo Bekins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Redlands ($190k), Harvard-Westlake School ($165k), California Science Center Foundation ($155k).
- Does Milo Bekins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Milo Bekins 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 Milo Bekins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Milo Bekins Foundation based?
- Milo Bekins Foundation is based in CA.
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