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Milton James Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$383k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,227
Organizations funded a year
16 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Milton James Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving31$383k6%
FY202319$583k21%
FY202223$113k13%
FY202127$139k19%
FY202029$687k34%
FY201923$107k35%
FY201716$57kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$310kHealth$142kPublic Safety & Disaster$85kEnvironment$65kFood & Nutrition$65kRecreation & Sports$52kInternational$42kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$1,029,50326%
Ideastream$277,22740%
The University of Akron Foundation$102,50060%
Revere Schools Foundation$71,5001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$42,00060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$41,50070%
Akron Children's Hospital Foundation$38,00030%
World Central Kitchen Inc$37,50050%
National Park Foundation$35,00020%
The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill$25,00050%
Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Milton James Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$1,029,50326%
Ideastream$277,22740%
The University of Akron Foundation$102,50060%
Revere Schools Foundation$71,5001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$42,00060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$41,50070%
Akron Children's Hospital Foundation$38,00030%
World Central Kitchen Inc$37,50050%
National Park Foundation$35,00020%
The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill$25,00050%
Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park$25,00040%
The Musical Arts Association$25,00050%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation$24,00050%
Summit Metro Parks Foundation$22,50053%
Hospice of the Western Reserve Inc$20,00030%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$18,00060%
American Kidney Fund Inc$12,50060%
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank$7,50030%
Feeding America$7,00020%
Haven of Rest Ministries Incorporated$6,0006n/a
One of a Kind Pet Rescue Inc$5,50040%
Humane Society of Summit County$5,50040%
Kent State University$5,0001n/a
Bath Fire Department Incorporated$5,0001n/a
Sierra Club Foundation$5,00010%
Good Samaritan Hunger Center$3,00050%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History$1,80040%
City Harvest Inc$1,70040%
Family & Community Services Inc$1,20030%
Vantage Aging$50010%
Bath Township Historical Society$2002n/a
Friends of Glendale Cemetery$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Milton James Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCuyahoga Community College Foundation: $1,029,503 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetIdeastream: $277,227 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe University of Akron Foundation: $102,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $42,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $41,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAkron Children's Hospital Foundation: $38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetConservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cleveland Clinic Foundation: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Metro Parks Foundation: $22,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHospice of the Western Reserve Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Kidney Fund Inc: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAkron-Canton Regional Foodbank: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOne of a Kind Pet Rescue Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of Summit County: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Samaritan Hunger Center: $3,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCleveland Museum of Natural History: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFamily & Community Services Inc: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVantage Aging: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Glendale Cemetery: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Akron Community Found…Lehner Family Foundat…The Welty Family Foun…Mary S & David C Corb…Sisler McFawn Foundat…The Swagelok Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Akron Community FoundationOH23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Swagelok Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Milton James Foundation Inc

How much does Milton James Foundation Inc give?
Milton James Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $383,452 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Milton James Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (7%).
Who are Milton James Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cuyahoga Community College Foundation ($1.0M), Ideastream ($277k), The University of Akron Foundation ($103k).
Does Milton James Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Milton James Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Milton James Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, Lehner Family Foundation, The Welty Family Foundation.
Where is Milton James Foundation Inc based?
Milton James Foundation Inc is based in OH.

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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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