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The Milbank Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE CANCER CENTER | $400,000 |
| CENTER TO ADVANCE PALLIATIVE CARE | $150,000 |
| STATE POLICY NETWORK | $125,000 |
| VISCARDI CENTER | $100,000 |
| OPERATION SURF | $100,000 |
| MENTORTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY | $100,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDITCION | $75,000 |
| TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| MYFACE | $70,000 |
| PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOARD MATCHING GIFTS | $25,702 |
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 (FY20–20, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.
Ncfp catalyzes the potential of philanthropic families to achieve greater impact with their giving by elevating a bold vision for family philanthropy; equipping family philanthropies with community, support, and resources; and activating a…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
National taxpayers union foundation (ntuf) provides crucial, impactful research and analysis showing americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. with our unique combination of policy expertise, outreach know-how,…
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Government Accountability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Enrichment Audio Resource Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SURF ↗
- Who funds THE VISCARDI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CARE AT HOME LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENRICHMENT AUDIO RESOURCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds END WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VINCENT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OUT FOUNDATION ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Milbank 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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