How much does The Milstein Family Foundation give?

The Milstein Family Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $1,503,875 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 95 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Milstein Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (25%), Religion (19%), Civil Rights (12%).

Who are The Milstein Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Israel Emergency Alliance ($475k), American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($475k), Merona Leadership Foundation ($375k).

Does The Milstein Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Milstein 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 Milstein Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.

Where is The Milstein Family Foundation based?

The Milstein Family Foundation is based in CA.

The Milstein Family Foundation

The Milstein Family Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

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.

$1.5M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$2.3MReligion$1.7MCivil Rights$1.1MEducation$971kPhilanthropy$950kPublic Benefit$543kHealth$485kArts & Culture$311kOther$0

02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k26 grants · $71k
$10k–50k38 grants · $717k
$50k–250k10 grants · $716k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STAND BY ME	$100,000
TALKISRAEL FOUNDATION	$100,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$100,000
THE IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION	$95,000
REPORT INC	$65,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC	$56,000
STAND WITH US	$50,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIO	$50,000
CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND SAFETY	$50,000
FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACI	$50,000
CHABAD ISRAEL CENTER	$45,000
AISH HA TORAH	$45,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$35,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI HOUSE	$30,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$30,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.3M · 129 repeat orgs$861k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129

Total granted

$7.3M

$589k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+19%

Still filing today

48%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

IE
ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
8× · 2017–2024 · $475k · revenue +122%
ML
MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $375k · revenue ×18
RE
RESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +9%

Funded once

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF AISH HATORAH - WESTERN REGION INC
one grant, 2018 · $44k
JI
JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECUR
one grant, 2023 · $25k
ME
MIDDLE EAST FORUM
one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -13%

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.

Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International

Jewish Electorate Institute

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…

Civil Rights

University of Judaism Foundation

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Sherit Isroel

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Connect Israel

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.

International

Israel 21c

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.

Education

The Israel Institute Inc

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.

International

The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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New Jewish Narrative Inc

To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.

International

Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida

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The Jerusalem Connection

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Pro-Israel America United

The organization's major purpose was to educate americans on us-israeli relations, encourage advocacy, and promote civic engagement.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel On Campus Coalition Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

117 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. 117 of the 225 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

115/117

Grantees still filing

77/117

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,875,705International$1,966,100Education$945,850Philanthropy$621,500Health$369,000Arts & Culture$204,000Public Benefit$185,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA56.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

18get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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.

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