California · Private foundation
The Lowell Milken Family 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.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,850,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 28
- Total assets, FY2025
- $144M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 68% of the organizations The Lowell Milken Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 73 | $11M | 59% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $10M | 68% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $12M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $10M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $3.8M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $6.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milken Community School | $6,575,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Stephen S Wise Temple | $6,539,929 | 6 | n/a |
| Art Center College of Design | $2,899,118 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of Ariel Inc | $2,150,000 | 3 | 49% |
| Nami Westside La | $1,888,000 | 5 | 72% |
| The Lawfare Project Inc | $1,250,000 | 4 | 12% |
| The Milken Institute | $1,250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish News Service Inc | $800,000 | 2 | 9% |
| American Friends of Aish Hatorah - Western Region Inc | $700,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes Inc | $625,000 | 3 | 41% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 89 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lowell Milken Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Milken Family Foundation · Ruby Family Foundation · Beatrix Finston Padway Charitable Trust for Arts and Education · David & Janet Polak Foundation · The Newton D & Rochelle F Becker Foundation · The Milstein Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group
How this is measured
Compare The Lowell Milken Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Lowell Milken Family Foundation
- How much does The Lowell Milken Family Foundation give?
- The Lowell Milken Family Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $10,892,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Lowell Milken Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Religion (21%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are The Lowell Milken Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Milken Community School ($6.6M), Stephen S Wise Temple ($6.5M), Art Center College of Design ($2.9M).
- Does The Lowell Milken Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lowell Milken Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lowell Milken Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation.
- Where is The Lowell Milken Family Foundation based?
- The Lowell Milken Family Foundation is based in CA.
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