· Private foundation
Milton James Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDEASTREAM | $250,227 |
| NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $6,500 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $6,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,500 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND METRO PARKS | $5,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE | $5,000 |
| CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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.
36 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
- IIDEASTREAM4× · 2020–2024 · $277k · revenue +34%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- RSRevere Schools Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $72k · revenue +105%
- BFBATH FIRE DEPARTMENT INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $5k
- KSKENT STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.
Engaging the community to end hunger
We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Glendale Cemetery. 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 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 48 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 CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Revere Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ONE OF A KIND PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
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: 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
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 Milton James Foundation Inc 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.