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Milton H Dresner Foundation Inc at a glance

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Milton H Dresner Foundation Inc

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.

$139k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$502kInternational$197kReligion$129kHuman Services$106kCivil Rights$91kRecreation & Sports$83kYouth Development$67kArts & Culture$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$46,280
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$15,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$12,000
PROGRESSIVE ART STUDIO COLLECTIVE$10,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS OF DETROIT$10,000
RUTH ELLIS CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK$10,000
HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$9,280
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
SUGAR LAW CENTER$4,280
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SURVIVOR MITZVAH PROJECT: $10k → 14%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE: $15k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH: $12k → 11%TEMPLE BETH EL: $50k → 8%ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS OF DETROIT: $18k → 21%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $19k → 18%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP: $12k → 12%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE: $15k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH: $11k → 11%TEMPLE BETH EL: $50k → 8%ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS OF DETROIT: $17k → 21%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $18k → 18%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP: $11k → 12%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE: $15k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH: $10k → 11%TEMPLE BETH EL: $19k → 8%ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS OF DETROIT: $11k → 21%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $17k → 18%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP: $10k → 12%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE: $14k → 17%UJA DETROIT: $12k → 8%ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS OF DETROIT: $11k → 21%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $12k → 18%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP: $10k → 12%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE: $12k → 17%UJA DETROIT: $11k → 8%ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS OF DETROIT: $10k → 21%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $11k → 18%HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP: $10k → 12%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE: $12k → 17%UJA DETROIT: $10k → 8%PROGRESSIVE ART STUDIO COLLECTIVE: $11k → 21%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $11k → 18%AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE: $11k → 17%PROGRESSIVE ART STUDIO COLLECTIVE: $11k → 21%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $62k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $59k → 17%RUTH ELLIS CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $19k → 21%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $56k → 17%RUTH ELLIS CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $18k → 21%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $53k → 17%RUTH ELLIS CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $17k → 21%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $50k → 17%RUTH ELLIS CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $11k → 21%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $46k → 17%RUTH ELLIS CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $11k → 21%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $45k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $43k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$1.1M
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+70%

Still filing today

36%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCrime & LegalRecreation & 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

  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +13%
  • HI
    HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $83k · revenue +70%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $4k · revenue +70%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $424,476 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORKTEMPLE BETH EL: $128,500 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELRUTH ELLIS CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $85,188 · OtherRUTH ELLIS CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARKIndividual grant recipient: $67,201 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS OF DETROIT: $66,686 · OtherALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS OF DETROITPROGRESSIVE ART STUDIO COLLECTIVE: $32,134 · Other+2 more: $24,780 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $103,805 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH W…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $77,730 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRO…Survivor Mitzvah Project: $15,340 · InternationalSurvivor Mitzvah …SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $87,188 · Crime & LegalHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $82,700 · Recreation & SportsJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $77,200 · Philanthropy
Other$828,965International$196,875Crime & Legal$87,188Recreation & Sports$82,700Philanthropy$77,200

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $103,805 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $87,188 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $82,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $77,730 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $77,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSurvivor Mitzvah Project: $15,340 over 2y, 1.5% of budget
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 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Survivor Mitzvah Project ↗
  • Who funds THE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Milton H Dresner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milton H Dresner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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