· Private foundation
The Milias 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 66 grants below total $3,320,320 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,940,820 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $620,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $237k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY FAMILY CHURCH | $1,265,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $353,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $201,170 |
| ANDERSON SCHOOL/UCLA | $200,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $200,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS | $111,000 |
| CATHOLIC FDN OF SEMA | $100,000 |
| THE BASIC FUND | $75,000 |
| U.S. OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC FDN. | $75,000 |
| MAYFIELD SENIOR SCHOOL | $63,750 |
| ST. LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FDN | $51,000 |
| HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL | $50,250 |
| MILE HIGH 360 | $50,000 |
| ST. MARY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER | $50,000 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- KDKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL3× · 2019–2023 · $215k · revenue +93%
- PHPasadena Hospital Association Ltd4× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +25%
- TBTHE BASIC FUND4× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- UAUSC ASSOCIATESone grant, 2023 · $102k
- UAUSC ASSOCIATES FUNDone grant, 2022 · $102k
- AVASPEN VALLEY SKI AND SNOWone grant, 2019 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund and the most unlike its peers is The Susan Morrow Legacy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 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. 62 of the 148 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds THE BASIC FUND ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · H Leslie & Elaine S Hoffman Foundation · The Fishbein Family Foundation Inc · Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc · Adams Fund · Robert a Waller Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ann Peppers 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.