Skip to content
The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $263k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$1,000,000
MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE$530,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$517,371
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$500,000
MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$227,848
MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$200,000
CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$175,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY$105,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$100,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY INC$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$50,000
MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$50,000
CHAMBERFEST CLEVELAND$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $25k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $25k → 17%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $265k → 15%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $1k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $10k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $1k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $1k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $10k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $1k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $5k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $1k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO SPCA INC: $15k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO SPCA INC: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 98 repeat orgs$43M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

98 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
23

Total granted

$25M
$42M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+19%

Still filing today

73%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +8%
  • TL
    THE LIEBER INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +61%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    3× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $40M · revenue -48% · 65% of their budget
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $550k · revenue +20%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
    one grant, 2019 · $400k
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.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

—
3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
4
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
6
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
7
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ocean Voyages Institute. 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

101 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 101 of the 132 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/101
Grantees still filing
72/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM: $39,800,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUMThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumThe Musical Arts Association: $2,050,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $4,024,848 · Arts & Culture+18 moreNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $2,020,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANC…CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC…CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH: $667,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BEI…UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $507,356 · OtherDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $480,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $400,000 · Other+61 more: $4,431,315 · Other+61 moreTHE LIEBER INSTITUTE INC: $3,000,000 · HealthHOPEWELL: $165,000 · HealthPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $130,000 · Health+9 more: $200,500 · HealthCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,136,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $525,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $465,000 · EducationJohn Carroll University: $400,000 · Education+8 more: $81,500 · EducationAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $725,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $550,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST: $517,371 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $320,000 · InternationalTHE NEGEV FOUNDATION: $182,500 · International+5 more: $102,000 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $1,765,000 · PhilanthropyCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $201,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $105,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $133,144 · PhilanthropyCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $525,000 · AnimalsThe Paw Project: $435,055 · Animals
Arts & Culture$48,874,848Other$10,005,671Health$3,495,500Education$2,607,500International$2,396,871Philanthropy$2,204,144Animals$960,055

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

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $1,765,000 over 6y, 1.1% 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $525,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $35,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 Federation of …The Cleveland Foundat…The Albert B & Audrey…The George Gund Found…Richard Horvitz and E…Dominion Energy Chari…Jack Joseph & Morton …The Cleveland Clinic …Emma R Fox Char Trust…The Joseph and Floren…John P Murphy Foundat…Third Federal Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • The Lieber Institute Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Max Planck Florida Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Lighthouse Artcenter Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Milton and Tamar Maltz 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.

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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Milton and Tamar Maltz Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home