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Milton James Foundation Inc at a glance

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Milton James Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$383k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CLEVELAND CLINIC PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE$5,000
SUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATION$5,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$5,000
CLEVELAND METRO PARKS$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
FULFILL$5,000
CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FULFILL: $5k → 6%FULFILL: $5k → 6%FULFILL: $5k → 6%FULFILL: $5k → 6%FULFILL: $5k → 6%FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 12%FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 12%FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $200 → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $5k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $5k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%VANTAGE AGING: $500 → 13%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 36 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
10

Total granted

$2.0M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+54%

Still filing today

67%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • CC
    CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
  • I
    IDEASTREAM
    4× · 2020–2024 · $277k · revenue +34%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • RS
    Revere Schools Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $72k · revenue +105%
  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • BF
    BATH FIRE DEPARTMENT INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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

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.

1
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Akron Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
4
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
Atrium Medical Center Foundation

To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.

Health
6
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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7
Mount Carmel Health System

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.

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8
The Cleveland Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
9
Akron Zoological Park

We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.

Animals
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
24/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,029,503 · EducationCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $102,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATIONRevere Schools Foundation: $71,500 · EducationRevere Schools FoundationIDEASTREAM: $277,227 · Youth DevelopmentIDEASTREAMUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: $41,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPI…NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FO…Individual grant recipient: $31,000 · OtherIndividual grant…CLEVELAND METRO PARKS: $29,000 · OtherCLEVELAND METRO …SALVATION ARMY: $17,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $12,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $11,500 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $18,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAN…The Musical Arts Association: $25,000 · OtherThe Musical Arts…+23 more: $85,425 · Other+23 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $42,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,700 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $41,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $37,500 · InternationalAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $38,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $24,000 · HealthCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $25,000 · EnvironmentSUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Environment
Education$1,203,503Youth Development$277,227Other$305,425Human Services$88,700International$79,000Health$62,000Environment$52,500

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

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
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 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 ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 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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