· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TROOPREACH FOUNDATION | $42,134 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATIO | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS | $25,000 |
| THE THACHER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| OPTIMIST YOUTH HOMES AND FAMILY SER | $20,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $20,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH | $20,000 |
| HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF LA FOUNDATIO | $15,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $15,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| BORN FREE USA | $10,000 |
| EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LODGE YOUTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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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How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Milo Bekins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milo Bekins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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