· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FOOTE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ALL OUR KIN | $20,000 |
| GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEW HAVEN READS | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $20,000 |
| FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| SOLAR YOUTH | $15,000 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL | $15,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
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 (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 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 The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in CT; 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 +34% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +364%
- HIHORIZONS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +170%
- 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
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 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.
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 75 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 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 ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF HAMDEN 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 FRENCHMANS CREEK CHARITIES FOUNDATION 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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