· Private foundation
The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE DANIEL & SHARON MILIKOWSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $480k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NEW HAVEN | $25,000 |
| HORIZONS | $25,000 |
| WELLESLEY HILLS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| READ TO GROW INC | $20,000 |
| NEW HAVEN READS | $20,000 |
| GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ALL OUR KIN | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $20,000 |
| FOOTE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| INTEGRATED REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES | $15,000 |
| FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $15,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- FCFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +364%
- HIHORIZONS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +273%
- FHFAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC4× · 2020–2024 · $93k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- ESEARLY STEPS TO SCHOOL SUCCESSone grant, 2021 · $50k
- CFCT FOODSHAREone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
Operate and maintain a day care center for children of students, faculty, and staff of the state university of new york at new paltz, and for children of the greater new paltz community.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Center of Hamden Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 75 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 FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOLAR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF HAMDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Fair Elections Center ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW REACH INC ↗
- Who funds Edith B Jackson Child Care Program Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOUNDLESS LITERACY 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: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Yale University · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · The Koch Ellis Fund · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc
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 The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Friends Center for Children Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Children's Center of Hamden Inc — 20% of income from government
- Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Leila Day Nurseries Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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.