California · Private foundation
The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $23M
- Granted FY2023
- 88
- Grants FY2023
- 85
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Community Foundation Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 69 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 69 organizations, $23M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $18,956,703
- Organizations funded a year
- 81 to 127
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 10
- Total assets, FY2023
- $402M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 85 | $23M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 81 | $18M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 93 | $4.8M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 127 | $13M | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Milken Institute | $46,210,173 | 5 | 7% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $4,477,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Los Angeles Ballet Inc | $1,415,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Milken Community School | $1,100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Windward School | $900,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The American Exchange Project Inc | $750,000 | 3 | 29% |
| Ownership Works Inc | $750,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Brentwood School | $550,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The John Thomas Dye School | $400,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The George Washington University | $400,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 165 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 147 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · The Lowell Milken Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation
- How much does The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation give?
- The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation reported 88 grants totaling $22,836,303 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 127 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Social Science (44%), Philanthropy (38%), Health (7%).
- Who are The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Milken Institute ($46M), Prostate Cancer Foundation ($4.5M), Los Angeles Ballet Inc ($1.4M).
- Does The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation.
- Where is The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation based?
- The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation is based in CA.
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