· Private foundation
Milton Meyer 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FINE ARTS MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| KQED | $2,300 |
| ACLU | $2,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $1,800 |
| UNCHAINED | $1,500 |
| UC BERKELEY | $1,500 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $1,250 |
| NATIVE ANIMAL RESCUE SANTA CRUZ | $1,000 |
| SCIENCE EDUCATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| HOUSING MATTERS | $1,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ TEEN CENTER | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $750 |
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 (FY22–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HMHOUSING MATTERS8× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +592%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +10%
- CSCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND6× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- UBUC BERKELEY L Sone grant, 2017 · $2k
- UBUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2023 · $500
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 50 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 KQED INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING MATTERS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds Paws Helping People Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARMATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SANTA CRUZ STATE PARKS ↗
- Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Milton Meyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milton Meyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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