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MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND

MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,730,578 to it, the largest being PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION ($5,692,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$11M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$5.7M
Net assets
$94M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Milbank Memorial Fund does

Programs

  1. Identify, inform, and inspire state health policy leaders:activities included providing technical assistance to state and federal policymakers, convening meetings on issues of health policy and population health, conducting programs to promote skills development and networking among emerging state leaders and senior state leaders.

    $1,572,566 spent
  2. Provide authoritative evidence, experience, and support on selected issues of critical importance to the states to stimulate meaningful response: activities included convening meetings of public and private decision makers and publishing reports on such issues as state services for aging populations, primary care transformation, sustainable health care costs, and behavioral health.

    $1,634,760 spent
  3. The milbank quarterly and communications: activities included editing and publishing the milbank quarterly, a peer- reviewed journal of health policy and population health, and increasing awareness of the fund's work by communicating its results to a broad audience.

    $791,787 spent
  4. Program development and management: activities included planning new projects with strategic partners, evaluating continuing work, and supporting partner organizations in collaborative work.

    $119,014 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($94M)2021 Revenue 188 ($6.2M) Expenses 125 ($5.5M) Net assets 107 ($101M)2022 Revenue 185 ($6.1M) Expenses 194 ($8.4M) Net assets 87 ($82M)2023 Revenue 588 ($19M) Expenses 143 ($6.2M) Net assets 94 ($88M)2024 Revenue 348 ($11M) Expenses 144 ($6.3M) Net assets 100 ($94M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (348)Expenses (144)Net assets (100)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $102M to $84M (−18%).

$95M
$102M
$84M
$91M
$96M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

John M Colmers

Director and chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

20202021202220232024
Listed1919201715
Joined·+2+4+2+0
No longer listed·2352
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $38k → $1.4M.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

99% of MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND?
MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,730,578 to it, the largest being PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION ($5,692,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,730,578 in grants to MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND?
PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,692,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing