Alabama · Private foundation
The Milestone Fund
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.
- $159k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $947k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Milestone Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 15 | $159k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $145k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $132k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $122k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $127k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $120k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $115k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $100k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $210,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation | $170,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Highlands Day School Foundation | $97,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Woodlawn United Inc | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Indian Springs School | $48,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research | $35,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Birmingham Civil Rights Institute | $31,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Birmingham Historical Society | $20,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Junior League of Birmingham Inc | $17,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Research Institute | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $210,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation | $170,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Highlands Day School Foundation | $97,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Woodlawn United Inc | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Indian Springs School | $48,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research | $35,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Birmingham Civil Rights Institute | $31,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Birmingham Historical Society | $20,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Junior League of Birmingham Inc | $17,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Research Institute | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Eye Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 37% |
| The Altamont School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medical Opinion & Education Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($280k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Milestone Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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: Dunn-French Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Ronne & Donald Hess Foundation · Jones Family Fund · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Lorol Roden Bowron Rediker Rucker Foundation · Viro Fund · Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation · The Hackney Foundation
How this is measured
About The Milestone Fund
- How much does The Milestone Fund give?
- The Milestone Fund reported 15 grants totaling $159,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Milestone Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Health (29%), Education (16%).
- Who are The Milestone Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: United Way of Central Alabama Inc ($210k), Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation ($170k), Highlands Day School Foundation ($97k).
- Does The Milestone Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Milestone Fund 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 Milestone Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dunn-French Foundation, Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation, Hill Crest Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Milestone Fund based?
- The Milestone Fund is based in AL.
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