Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $63,954,465 to it, the largest being breakthrough prize foundation ($63,954,465). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Universityshared funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1.7M → $20M.
From the IRS filings of MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Universityshared fundersCA · backs 7 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michael Antonov Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlette & William J Coleman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Osullivan Foundation Trust Dtd 122299portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard H Yearick Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Neurology Education and Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Medical Research Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Narayan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: 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 MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $63,954,465 to it, the largest being breakthrough prize foundation ($63,954,465). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $63,954,465 in grants to MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- breakthrough prize foundation is the largest funder on record, with $63,954,465 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILKY WAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing