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The Milstein 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $717k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $716k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAND BY ME | $100,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TALKISRAEL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION | $95,000 |
| REPORT INC | $65,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $56,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIO | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND SAFETY | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACI | $50,000 |
| STAND WITH US | $50,000 |
| AISH HA TORAH | $45,000 |
| CHABAD ISRAEL CENTER | $45,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI HOUSE | $30,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +47% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
129 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 14 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k 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
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $475k · revenue +122%
- MLMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $375k · revenue ×18
- RERESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF AISH HATORAH - WESTERN REGION INCone grant, 2018 · $44k
- JIJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MEMIDDLE EAST FORUMone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -13%
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.
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.
The organization's major purpose was to educate americans on us-israeli relations, encourage advocacy, and promote civic engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel On Campus Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Legal Foundation. 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 24 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 5% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 225 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds STAND BY ME INC ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC ↗
- Who funds HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds TALKISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND SAFETY CO ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHREINU CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ZACHOR LEGAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Fuente Latina Inc ↗
- Who funds IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PEYLIM LEV LACHIM ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trus · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Koret Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Hochberg Family Foundation · Mayberg Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Snider 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 Milstein 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Heroes to Heroes Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute 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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