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The Milner Family 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.

$205k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 24
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Milner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving8$180k50%
FY20248$205k13%
FY202322$215k18%
FY202224$235k29%
FY202118$193k28%
FY202023$181kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$244kCivil Rights$165kPublic Benefit$126kInternational$109kHuman Services$101kEnvironment$88kHealth$48kEducation$31kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MD
KS
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Unitarian Universalist Association$197,5005n/a
Grace Center Foundation Inc$97,02562%
RepresentUs Education Fund$80,00041%
Parent Encouragement Program Inc$57,00051%
ACLU Foundation of Maryland Inc$45,00040%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$40,00040%
Catholic Relief Services$30,0001n/a
Chemin Neuf Community$30,0001n/a
Beteseb Felega - Ethiopian Adoption Connection$26,000314%
350org$25,00050%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of The Milner Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Unitarian Universalist Association$197,5005n/a
Grace Center Foundation Inc$97,02562%
RepresentUs Education Fund$80,00041%
Parent Encouragement Program Inc$57,00051%
ACLU Foundation of Maryland Inc$45,00040%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$40,00040%
Catholic Relief Services$30,0001n/a
Chemin Neuf Community$30,0001n/a
Beteseb Felega - Ethiopian Adoption Connection$26,000314%
350org$25,00050%
Imani Project$22,5003n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$20,00020%
Chesapeake Climate Action Network Inc$19,50040%
Population Services International$17,50030%
Razom Inc$15,0001n/a
Seacology$15,0001n/a
Givedirectly Inc$12,50020%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$10,00020%
Manna Food Center Inc$10,00020%
Building Bridges Across the River Inc$10,00010%
Fairvote$8,50020%
Protect Democracy Project$7,50010%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$5,00020%
The Against Malaria Foundation$5,0001n/a
Feeding America$4,00010%
Center for Carbon Removal$3,00010%
Trevor Project Inc$2,00010%
Small Things Matter Inc$2,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($392k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrace Center Foundation Inc: $97,025 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $80,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetParent Encouragement Program Inc: $57,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetACLU Foundation of Maryland Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBeteseb Felega - Ethiopian Adoption Connection: $26,000 over 3y, 14% of budget350org: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake Climate Action Network Inc: $19,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPopulation Services International: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGivedirectly Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetManna Food Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding Bridges Across the River Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFairvote: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProtect Democracy Project: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Carbon Removal: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 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 20.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to The Milner Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Milner 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.

About The Milner Family Foundation

How much does The Milner Family Foundation give?
The Milner Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $205,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Milner Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Civil Rights (16%), Public Benefit (12%).
Who are The Milner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Unitarian Universalist Association ($198k), Grace Center Foundation Inc ($97k), RepresentUs Education Fund ($80k).
Does The Milner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Milner 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 Milner Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Milner Family Foundation based?
The Milner Family Foundation is based in MD.

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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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