California · 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.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 66
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,265,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 74
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $135M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Milias Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $384k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 61 | $2.5M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $2.0M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $1.9M | 62% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $956k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent Denver Country Day School | $215,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd | $200,250 | 4 | 0% |
| The Basic Fund | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery | $137,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Polytechnic School | $136,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mayfield Senior School of the Holy Child Jesus | $134,250 | 3 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc | $101,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mile High 360 | $80,000 | 4 | 3% |
| St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc | $76,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Milias Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About The Milias Foundation
- How much does The Milias Foundation give?
- The Milias Foundation reported 66 itemized grants totaling $3,320,320, out of $3,940,820 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 74 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Milias Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (15%), Philanthropy (10%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Milias Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Kent Denver Country Day School ($215k), Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ($200k), The Basic Fund ($200k).
- Does The Milias Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Milias Foundation 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 Milias Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pasadena Community Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is The Milias Foundation based?
- The Milias Foundation is based in CA.
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