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The Milken Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$369k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$288k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Religion$2.3MEducation$1.6MArts & Culture$108kHealth$90kHuman Services$60kSocial Science$50kPhilanthropy$25kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $288k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION$287,500
ARIEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$11,500
THE HELP GROUP CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER$10,000
ACTIVE MINDS INC$7,200
ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA$2,000
POLICE UNITY TOUR$1,000
THE FORWARD ASSOCIATION INC$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 8 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$2.9M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+37%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthReligionEducationInternationalOther

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

  • MC
    MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +135%
  • EC
    EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +3%
  • TH
    THE HELP GROUP CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SS
    STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES BALLET INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +83%
  • NF
    NE'EMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
2
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

4
The Mirman School for Gifted Children

We cultivate the boundless potential of highly gifted children, nurture their passions and talents, and develop a diverse community of creative and constructive lifelong learners.

Education
5
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
6
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc

The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…

Arts & Culture
7
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
8
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

9
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
10
Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles

The Organization is a school dedicated to providing an outstanding Judaic and general education in an environment that is consistent with this ideology. The Organization seeks to fulfill its mission by hiring the finest teachers and staff…

Education
11
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

12
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milken Community School and the most unlike its peers is Exceptional Children's Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $1,200,000 · OtherMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLSTEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE — $1,000,000 · OtherSTEPHEN S WISE TEMPLEBJE — $862,500 · OtherBJEBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION — $572,500 · OtherBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION+9 more — $361,000 · Other+9 moreLOS ANGELES BALLET INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,600 · Arts & CultureEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $53,850 · Human ServicesActive Minds Inc — $36,000 · HealthHIAS INC — $1,121 · InternationalYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC — $1,018 · ReligionJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE — $1,018 · EducationPOLICE UNITY TOUR CHAPTER VII OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,996,000Arts & Culture$106,600Human Services$53,850Health$36,000International$1,121Religion$1,018Education$1,018Crime & Legal$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $1,200,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES BALLET INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $53,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HELP GROUP CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc — $36,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT — $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLos Angeles Youth Orchestra — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHIAS INC — $1,121 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC — $1,018 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE — $1,018 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICE UNITY TOUR CHAPTER VII OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Richard and Ellen Sandler Family FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · The Lowell Milken Family Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Milken Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 88%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Milken Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Milken Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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