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The Milligan Family Foundation at a glance

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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
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2019 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k60 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $179k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$25,000
ROSEVILLE JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY$25,000
THE TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION$25,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$15,000
CENTER FOR LITERARY ARTS$12,000
ALUM ROCK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$12,000
MISSEY INC$10,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SILICON VALLEY$10,000
CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND$10,000
OXFAM AMERICA$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE SMITHSONIAN$5,000
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%AVENIDAS: $500 → 8%YWCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $1k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC: $1k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC: $1k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC: $1k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $2k → 8%TIDES: $2k → 10%BILL WILSON CENTER: $1k → 8%AVENIDAS: $500 → 8%ADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES: $300 → 8%ADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES: $250 → 8%ADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES: $250 → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $1k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $1k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$746k · 77 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
39

Total granted

$746k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+25%

Still filing today

73%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SJ
    SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +819%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +573%
  • OXFAM-AMERICA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • PU
    PARADISE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $26k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR LITERACY ART
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • United States Association for UNHCRgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +67%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
4
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
5
Chile-California Council

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…

International
6
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
9
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
10
Oakland Museum of California

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…

Arts & Culture
11
California Academy of Sciences

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,…

Arts & Culture
12
Sutter Bay Hospitals

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/83
Grantees still filing
64/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRANITE BAY ATHLETICS ASB: $85,000 · OtherGRANITE BAY ATHLETICS ASBALUM ROCK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $36,000 · OtherALUM ROCK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $30,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKPARADISE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $25,500 · OtherPARADISE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCENTER FOR LITERARY ARTS: $24,000 · OtherCENTER FOR LITERARY ARTSSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherMOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH: $20,000 · Other+84 more: $198,300 · Other+84 moreTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTE…SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $11,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE MUSE…KQED INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureKQED INCSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER: $4,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $7,850 · Arts & Culture+5 moreSAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationSAN JOSE PU…THE CRUCIBLE: $5,300 · EducationTHE CRUCIBL…READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $3,000 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…YOUTH UPRISING: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $30,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AME…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $22,500 · InternationalMEDECINS …United States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 · InternationalUnited St…Mercy Corps: $3,000 · International+3 more: $3,600 · InternationalHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $21,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $15,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $4,000 · AnimalsNATIVE ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,000 · Animals+1 more: $200 · AnimalsOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc: $21,000 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsBAY AREA DERBY GIRLS: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$438,800Arts & Culture$101,850Education$83,300Youth Development$79,000International$69,100Animals$42,200Recreation & Sports$28,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • 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 Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • 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 YOUTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗

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 Commun…The David and Lucile …The Applied Materials…Rotary Club of San Jo…Second Harvest of Sil…Leo M Shortino Family…San Jose Mercury News…The Sobrato Family Fo…Destination Home SV c…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Los Altos Mountain Vi…The San Francisco Fou…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Milligan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Milligan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home