· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k60 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROSEVILLE JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY | $25,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| ALUM ROCK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| CENTER FOR LITERARY ARTS | $12,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND | $10,000 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $10,000 |
| MISSEY INC | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SILICON VALLEY | $10,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SMITHSONIAN | $5,000 |
| SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2019, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +573%
- SJSAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +819%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- PUPARADISE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $26k
- CFCENTER FOR LITERACY ARTone grant, 2017 · $10k
United States Association for UNHCRgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +54%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bay Area Derby Girls. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 122 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oakland- East Bay Garden Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRUCIBLE ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH UPRISING ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA DERBY GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
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: 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
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 Milligan 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.