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The Milligan Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$272k
Granted FY2019
71
Grants FY2019
70
Organizations funded FY2019
7%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
70 to 91
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
8
Total assets, FY2019
$5.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 7% of the organizations The Milligan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201970$271k7%
FY201891$295k30%
FY201789$273kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$163kArts & Culture$151kYouth Development$88kInternational$69kReligion$67kFood & Nutrition$65kEnvironment$62kAnimals$34kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 89 grantees
All grantees of The Milligan Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Granite Bay Athletics Asb$85,0003n/a
San Jose Public Library Foundation$75,00034%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley$75,00031%
The Tech Interactive$65,00030%
Oxfam-America Inc$30,00030%
Alameda County Community Food Bank$30,00020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$22,50030%
Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc$21,00030%
Humane Society Silicon Valley$21,00030%
Motivating Inspiring Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth$20,00031%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$15,00030%
National Park Foundation$14,50030%
Oakland- East Bay Garden Center Inc$12,00023%
San Jose Museum of Art Association$11,00030%
United States Association for UNHCR$10,00010%
Kqed Inc$8,50030%
The Crucible$5,30030%
Smithsonian Institution$5,00010%
Giver of Life Global Ministries$5,0001n/a
San Jose Childrens Musical Theater$4,50030%
Youth Uprising$4,00020%
Youth Science Institute$4,00030%
Save the Redwoods League$4,00030%
The Marine Mammal Center$4,00030%
East Bay Childrens Book Project$3,5003n/a
Family Supportive Housing Inc$3,00030%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$3,00030%
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County$3,00030%
Yosemite Foundation$3,00030%
Reading Is Fundamental Inc$3,00030%
ONeill Sea Odyssey$3,00030%
Bill Wilson Center$3,00020%
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc$3,00030%
Mercy Corps$3,00030%
Lake Merritt Breakfast Club Charitable Foundation$3,000118%
Homefirst Services of Santa Clara County$3,00030%
Bay Area Derby Girls$3,00031%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$2,50030%
San Francisco AIDS Foundation$2,50030%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$2,50030%
The American Beethoven Society Co San Jose State University$2,4001n/a
The Trust for Public Land$2,00020%
Montalvo Association$2,00020%
Finca International Inc$2,00030%
Sierra Club Foundation$2,00020%
Tides Inc$2,00010%
Shop With a Cop Foundation of Silicon Valley$2,0002n/a
Population Connection$2,0001n/a
San Jose Firefighters Burn Foundation Inc$2,00012%
Native Animal Rescue$2,00030%
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy$2,00030%
Spartan Foundation Inc$1,6501n/a
Peninsula Open Space Trust$1,50030%
Heyday$1,50030%
Project Open Hand$1,50030%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$1,25030%
Sempervirens Fund$1,10020%
The Health Trust$1,10010%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,10010%
Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center$1,0002n/a
California State Parks Foundation$1,00010%
Avenidas$1,00020%
Creative Growth Art Center$1,00010%
YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley$1,00010%
Glide Foundation$1,0001n/a
County of Santa Clara$1,0001n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$1,00010%
American Lung Association$80020%
Advent Group Ministries Inc$80030%
Museum of Jurassic Technology$7001n/a
Save Our Shores$70020%
Salinas Airshower Learning and Discovery Research Academy$6501n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$50020%
Americares Foundation Inc$50010%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$50010%
Oceana Inc$50010%
American Heart Association Inc$50010%
American Diabetes Association$45020%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$30030%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$20020%
Friends of The Sea Otter$20010%
Alley Cat Allies Inc$20010%
Save The Bay$20010%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$20010%
Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Inc$20020%
Breakthrough T1d$20020%
March of Dimes Inc$1001n/a
American Kidney Fund Inc$10010%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn$10010%

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($191k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Milligan Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Jose Public Library Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Tech Interactive: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda County Community Food Bank: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHumane Society Silicon Valley: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMotivating Inspiring Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOakland- East Bay Garden Center Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSan Jose Museum of Art Association: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Crucible: $5,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Jose Childrens Musical Theater: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Uprising: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Science Institute: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSave the Redwoods League: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marine Mammal Center: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Supportive Housing Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Santa Clara County: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYosemite Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetReading Is Fundamental Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONeill Sea Odyssey: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBill Wilson Center: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLake Merritt Breakfast Club Charitable Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHomefirst Services of Santa Clara County: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Derby Girls: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco AIDS Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Gate National Parks Conservancy: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMontalvo Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFinca International Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTides Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Jose Firefighters Burn Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNative Animal Rescue: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGuadalupe River Park Conservancy: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPeninsula Open Space Trust: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHeyday: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Open Hand: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 76.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA35.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Milligan Family Foundation

How much does The Milligan Family Foundation give?
The Milligan Family Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $272,450 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 91 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Milligan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (18%), Youth Development (10%).
Who are The Milligan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Granite Bay Athletics Asb ($85k), San Jose Public Library Foundation ($75k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley ($75k).
Does The Milligan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Milligan Family 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 Milligan Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Applied Materials Foundation.
Where is The Milligan Family Foundation based?
The Milligan Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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