Milkey Family Foundation Inc
St Pete Beach, FL · EIN 47-4814419. Reported 104 grants totalling $8,154,678 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Milkey Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $70,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $885,838. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding Tampa Bay | Tampa, FL | $1,280,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of Strays | St Petersburg, FL | $1,231,080 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dr Carter G Woodson African American History Museum | St Petersburg, FL | $1,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Schwab Charitables Fund | San Francisco, CA | $885,838 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pinellas Education Foundation | Largo, FL | $465,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Daystar Life Center | St Petersburg, FL | $433,080 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Feeding America Tampa Bay | Tampa, FL | $358,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Woodson Warriors Scholarships | St Petersburg, FL | $305,880 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tampa Bay Watch | Tierra Verde, FL | $252,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Red Cross | Washington, DC | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Clearwater, FL | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Vermont Gund Inst | Burlington, VT | $175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gulf Coast Jfcs | Clearwater, FL | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tampa Bay Watch Marine Education Center | Tierra Verde, FL | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Academy Prep Center of St Petersburg | St Petersburg, FL | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dmg School Project | St Petersburg, FL | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pinellas Community Foundation | Colonial Center Baysid, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Dali Museum | St Petersburg, FL | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southeastern Guide Dogs | Palmetto, FL | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Warrick Dunn Charities Inc | Decatur, GA | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Stage | St Petersburg, FL | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sol Relief | St Petersburg, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Suntan Art Center | St Pete Beach, FL | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ready for Life | Largo, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Petersburg Arts Alliance | St Petersburg, FL | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Epic (empath Partners in Care) | St Petersburg, FL | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center | Asheville, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Academy Prep Center of St Petersburg's Evening of Dreams 2024 | St Petersburg, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation | St Petersburg, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alzheimer's Association - Florida Gulf Coast Chapter | Clearwater, FL | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Children's Dream Fund | St Petersburg, FL | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Acton Stops Abuse (casa) | St Petersburg, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Suncoast Hospice Foundation | Clearwater, FL | $18,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Partners With Haiti Inc | St Petersburg, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Angels Against Abuse | Largo, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lsp Seeds of Hope | Lithia, FL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Beer Kulture Inc | St Petersburg, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Humane Society of Tampa Bay | Tampa, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Carolina Glass Center | Asheville, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Volunteers of America of Florida | St Petersburg, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Pete Chamber of Commerce | St Petersburg, FL | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
27 of 42 (64%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 81%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 51 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | $1,603,500 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 26 | $1,782,873 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 23 | $1,706,133 | $45,000 |
| 2024 | 28 | $3,062,172 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 83% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Milkey Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2813 Sunset Way, St Pete Beach, FL, 33706. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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