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The Milton and Tamar Maltz 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.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
52
Grants FY2024
50
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 80
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$40M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalReligionEmploymentOther
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
FY2024still arriving44$4.0M9%
FY202350$5.8M14%
FY202247$3.7M17%
FY20213$850k33%
FY20208$422k63%
FY201961$3.6M15%
FY201878$6.3M14%
FY201780$44Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$50MHealth$7.8MEducation$3.3MPhilanthropy$1.9MInternational$1.7MAnimals$1.6MReligion$1.3MEnvironment$1.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 103 grantees
All grantees of The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Spy Museum$39,800,000165%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$3,000,00031%
The Lieber Institute Inc$3,000,00035%
The Musical Arts Association$2,050,00032%
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression$2,020,00045%
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage$1,397,848428%
Case Western Reserve University$1,136,00030%
The Cleveland Play House$1,100,00053%
American Israel Education Foundation Inc$725,00050%
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah$667,0002n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$550,00010%
Maltz Jupiter Theatre Inc$530,00014%
Cleveland Zoological Society$525,00023%
Rainforest Trust$517,37113%
University of Arizona$507,3562n/a
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc$480,0002n/a
University of Arizona Foundation$465,00020%
The Paw Project$435,055310%
John Carroll University$400,00020%
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center$326,360215%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$320,00040%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$310,00010%
Tucson Centers for Women & Children Inc Dba Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse$265,00015%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History$230,00050%
Chamberfest Cleveland$222,00069%
Chautauqua Foundation Inc$201,00022%
Earthjustice$200,00020%
Ocean Voyages Institute$190,000322%
The Negev Foundation$182,50068%
Hopewell$165,00061%
Lighthouse Artcenter Inc$160,00033%
Population Action International$130,00021%
South Euclid Humane Society$126,5852n/a
Dobama Theatre Inc$100,00028%
Menorah Park Foundation$100,00015%
Cleveland Vegan Society$90,000332%
The Everett Jewish Life Center in Chautauqua$90,000426%
The Cleveland Police Foundation$75,00036%
Vocational Guidance Services$65,00040%
Reform Temple of Jupiter-Tequesta Inc$60,0003n/a
Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc$60,00060%
Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio$60,00020%
Friendship Circle of Cleveland Inc$56,00072%
Tohono Chul Park Inc$55,0002n/a
Global Cleveland$50,00022%
Cleveland Museum of Art$50,00010%
National Council of Jewish Women - Cleveland$50,00022%
St Joseph Academy$49,3705n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$45,0003n/a
Mercy Corps$45,00010%
Western Reserve Historical Society$41,00060%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$40,00020%
Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc$35,00020%
Cleveland Society for the Blind$30,00060%
Bellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau$30,00060%
Medwish Medworks$30,00060%
Ort America Inc$30,00060%
Roosevelt University$30,00060%
Cleveland Ballet$30,00021%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Arizona Incorporated$28,00022%
Jewish Motorcyclist Alliance$25,0001n/a
Trees Water and People$25,00040%
Shoes and Clothes for Kids$25,00030%
Northeast Ohio Spca Inc$25,00021%
Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc$20,00010%
American Jewish Committee$20,00020%
Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation$20,00041%
Cleveland Film Society$20,00020%
Council Gardens$15,00060%
Friends of Sabino Canyon Inc$15,000222%
Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center at Shaker Lakes$14,50040%
Julie Billiart School$12,0004n/a
Cleveland Institute of Music$12,00060%
The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum Inc$11,00030%
American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra$10,00010%
Haus of Transcendent$10,00011%
Max Planck Florida Corporation$10,00020%
Values-In-Action Foundation$10,00021%
Montefiore Foundation$10,00021%
Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio$10,00011%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$10,00050%
Piano International Assoc of Northern Oh$7,00050%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$6,00060%
Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach Inc$6,00060%
Cleveland Hillel Foundation Inc$6,00060%
Cleveland State University Foundation$5,00010%
Siegel & Shuster Society$5,00012%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$5,00010%
Kol Israel Foundation Inc$5,00013%
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning$5,00010%
Senior Transportation Connection$5,00050%
Conservation International Foundation$5,00010%
Union for Reform Judaism$5,0005n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$4,00040%
Cleveland Arts Prize$3,00031%
Cleveland Jewish Publication Company Foundation$3,00034%
Milestones Autism Resources$3,00030%
Nami Ohio$3,00030%
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc$3,00030%
Lifeact$2,00020%
Friends of the Jewish Chapel Inc$2,00020%
The Metrohealth Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Friends of Breakthrough Schools$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Spy Museum: $39,800,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Lieber Institute Inc: $3,000,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $2,050,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: $2,020,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $1,397,848 over 4y, 28% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $1,136,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cleveland Play House: $1,100,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Israel Education Foundation Inc: $725,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $550,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaltz Jupiter Theatre Inc: $530,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCleveland Zoological Society: $525,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetRainforest Trust: $517,371 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $465,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Paw Project: $435,055 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center: $326,360 over 2y, 15% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $320,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $310,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTucson Centers for Women & Children Inc Dba Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse: $265,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCleveland Museum of Natural History: $230,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetChamberfest Cleveland: $222,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetChautauqua Foundation Inc: $201,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOcean Voyages Institute: $190,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetThe Negev Foundation: $182,500 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetHopewell: $165,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLighthouse Artcenter Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPopulation Action International: $130,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDobama Theatre Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMenorah Park Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCleveland Vegan Society: $90,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetThe Everett Jewish Life Center in Chautauqua: $90,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetThe Cleveland Police Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetVocational Guidance Services: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriendship Circle of Cleveland Inc: $56,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetGlobal Cleveland: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCleveland Museum of Art: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women - Cleveland: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMercy Corps: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Reserve Historical Society: $41,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Tennis Centers Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCleveland Society for the Blind: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedwish Medworks: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% 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 92.

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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 Federation of ClevelandOH62.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Penni M and Stephen J Weinberg Family Fund · John P Murphy Foundation · Third Federal 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.

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About The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation

How much does The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation give?
The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $4,194,719 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (71%), Health (11%), Education (5%).
Who are The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: International Spy Museum ($40M), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($3.0M), The Lieber Institute Inc ($3.0M).
Does The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Milton and Tamar Maltz 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 Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Cleveland, The Cleveland Foundation, The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation.
Where is The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation based?
The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 132 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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