· 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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+10 grants · $9.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES - SCHOOL OF LAW | $2,850,000 |
| MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $2,600,000 |
| THE MILKEN INSTITUTE | $1,250,000 |
| STEPHEN WISE TEMPLE | $500,000 |
| ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN | $450,000 |
| THE LAWFARE PROJECT | $400,000 |
| JEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC | $400,000 |
| JERUSALEM CENTER FOR SECURITY & FOREIGN AFFAIRS (THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $400,000 |
| NAMI WESTSIDE LA | $400,000 |
| LETTER OF THE LAW - SHURAT HADIN ISRAEL LAW CENTER | $250,000 |
| MEMRI - THE MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $101,000 |
| ISRAEL DEFENSE AND SECURITY FORUM (THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL) | $100,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH | $100,000 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 43 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +135%
- ACART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN6× · 2020–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +30%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL INC3× · 2022–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +207% · 49% of their budget
Funded once
- UFUCLA FOUNDATION HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2020 · $2.5M
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue -2%- JCJERUSALEM CENTER FOR SECURITY & FOREIGN AFFAIRSone grant, 2024 · $500k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The organization's mission is to build an engaged and united israeli-american community that strengthens the israeli and jewish identity of our next generation, the american-jewish community and the bond between the peoples of the united…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
62 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. 62 of the 155 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 MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI WESTSIDE LA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL MILKEN CENTER FOR UNSUNG HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GLOBAL INITIATIVE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING ↗
- Who funds CONNECT ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lowell Milken Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lowell Milken Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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