Funder Standing / The Michael And Lori Milken Family

The Michael And Lori Milken Family

CA · EIN 821927087 · 100M+ · data as of FY2023
Adds new grantees regularly

30 of 86 organizations The Michael And Lori Milken Family funded in FY2023 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 30.5%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 33.0%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
30.5%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$5,000
Range $1,000 – $20,000,000
Repeat-dollar share
54.9%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
4
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2023

RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE FUNDnew$20,000,000
MILKEN INSTITUTE$1,289,016
MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$925,000
MATTEL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT UCLAnew$617,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYnew$400,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$302,000
AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT$250,000
OWNERSHIP WORKS$250,000
LOS ANGELES BALLET$235,000
ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETYnew$225,000
WINDWARD SCHOOL$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$150,000
CAPITAL CARING HEALTHnew$150,000
HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANSnew$125,000
LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION$100,000
THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$80,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION$75,000
KEEP MEMORY ALIVE$75,000
LOS ANGELES OPERAnew$75,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$50,000
PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONYnew$50,000
BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS$25,000
STANDWITHUS$25,000
VISION TO LEARN$25,000

Showing the 25 largest of 86 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what The Michael And Lori Milken Family funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.