· Private foundation
Mira W Miskin Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Mira W Miskin Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Mira W Miskin Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $77k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k24 grants · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION | $66,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| SINAI TEMPLE | $1,800 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $500 |
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC | $500 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY OF YAD VASHEM | $250 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $250 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL | $250 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL CHAI SOCIETY | $200 |
| THE JEWISH ACADEMY | $200 |
| JEWISH HEALING CENTER | $200 |
| FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC | $200 |
| MAZON | $150 |
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 (FY17–17, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Mira W Miskin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2020, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +63%- FOFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC4× · 2017–2020 · $900 · revenue +213%
- AMAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING3× · 2017–2019 · $800 · revenue +22%
Funded once
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -20%
- IMINTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING Ione grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -62%
- TRTHE RETINA VITREOUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -77%
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.
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How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 64 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RETINA VITREOUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION 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.
Open a dossier: Chesed Ahavah Foundation · Melvyn & Irene Greenstein Family Foundation · Joseph H Feldman Family Foundation Inc · F G Foundation · The Rav-Noy Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mira W Miskin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mira W Miskin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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