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The Milner Francini 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,221 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATER SAN JOSE (CMTSJ) | $2,651 |
| META (PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND) | $2,650 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SV | $2,400 |
| RACE FORWARD | $2,022 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | $2,014 |
| MOMENTUM FOR HEALTH | $2,014 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $2,003 |
| ACLU | $2,001 |
| ALAS (AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR) | $2,001 |
| US FUND FOR UNICEF | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +38%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF4× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +76%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- FDFront Door Communitiesone grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue -54%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AOACLU OF NORTHERN CAone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…
End violence against women international (evawi) inspires and educates those who respond to gender-based violence, equipping them with the knowledge and tools they need to support victims and hold perpetrators accountable. we promote…
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
To make grants to charitable organizations and programs that support the achievement of sexual and reproductive health (srh) of the poor & underprivileged women and others in the asia-pacific and elsewhere.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Technoserve's mission is to fight poverty by helping people build regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camfed Usa Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fostering Promise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 87 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 Front Door Communities ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARISI HOUSE ON THE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds ALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds San Jose Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEKIDS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds INDIA LITERACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
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 · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · The Health Trust · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Agilent Technologies Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community 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 Milner Francini 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.
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% 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.
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