JM Foundation

The JM Foundation was created by Jeremiah Milbank, co-founder of the Borden Milk Company, in 1924. Originally its mission was to help integrate people with disabilities from WWI into American life at a time where they were quite stigmatizing. He proponent of limited government and the "independent liberty" of Social Darwinist thought popular around universities like Yale during his age. "To realize his vision, The JM Foundation Directors support activities that foster self-sufficiency, personal responsibility, and private initiative."

Milbank helped Herbert Hoover found the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and served as their treasurer for 25 years.

According to its website, the Foundation’s current philanthropic goals "are to encourage market-oriented public policy solutions and to enhance America’s unique system of free enterprise, entrepreneurship, private property ownership, and voluntarism."

JM Foundation is a major right-wing funder. It's current executive director Carl Helstrom works as Vice President for programs at another major right-wing funder: the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

Grants Distributed

2018

Grants:

• America’s Future Foundation: $25,000 "To support educational activities"
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America: $250,000 "Toward leadership development at local clubs"
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia: $8,000 "For youth services"
• Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry: $25,000 "To support the Jasper County Boys & Girls Club"
• Capitol Learning Academy: $10,000 "Toward educational programs"
• Commonwealth Foundation: $25,000 "To advance freedom and free enterprise in Pennsylvania"
• Empire Center: $25,000 "To advance freedom and free enterprise in New York"
• Encounter Books $10,000 "For publications"
• Foundation for Cultural Review: $7,500 "Toward educational activities"
• Fund for American Studies: $25,000 "To establish an Alumni Leadership Academy"
• Garden State Initiative: $25,000 "To advance freedom and free enterprise in New Jersey"
• Hoover Institution: $290,000 "To support Senior Research Fellows"
• Manhattan Institute: $25,000 "For the Adam Smith Society"
• South Carolina Coastal Conservation League: $60,000 "Toward educational activities"
• Yankee Institute: $25,000 "To advance freedom and free enterprise in Connecticut"

2010

Grants:

• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $40,000
• American Spectator Foundation: $25,000
• America's Future Foundation: $20,000 "To expand state chapters"
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation: $30,000
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America: $150,000 "Toward The Executive Leadership Development Initiative"
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia: $5,000 "For youth services"
• Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry: $25,000 "To support the Jasper County Boys & Girls Clubs"
• Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions: $25,000 "To increase economic freedom and entrepreneurship"
• Common Sense Institute of New Jersey: $30,000 "For research on educational choice and government transparency"
• DonorsTrust: $60,000 "To promote patient-centered health care and assist emerging young journalists"
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: $30,000 "To support high school programs"
• The Heritage Foundation: $25,000 "For coalition building"
• Herbert Hoover Presidential Library: $2,500 "To support the Uncommon Awards Program"
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace: $40,000 "For the Task Force On Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity"
• Illinois Policy Institute: $30,000 "Toward economic reform"
• Institute for Humane Studies: $30,000 "For internships at state think tanks"
• Institute for Responsible Citizenship: $25,000 "To support summer programs for college students"
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $25,000 "For the Lehrman American Studies Center"
• LCU Foundation: $5,000 "Toward an educational video"
• Manhattan Institute: $50,000 "To launch the Center for State and Local Leadership"
• Mississippi Center for Public Policy: $30,000 "To reduce the size and scope of state government"
• National Taxpayers Union Foundation: $25,000 "For entitlement reform"
• Philanthropy Roundtable: $25,000 "To support the Alliance for Charitable Reform"
• South Carolina Policy Council: $25,000 "Toward a statewide marketing campaign"
• State Policy Network: $75,000 "To strengthen state think tanks"
• Vincent Memorial Hospital: $10,000 "For research fellowships"
• Young America's Foundation: $25,000 "For the Reagan 100 Initiative"

Personnel

As of June 2019:

Staff

• Carl Helstrom, Executive Director and Assistant Treasurer
• Chris Olander, Executive Director Emeritus and Assistant Secretary

Former Staff

• Carmel Mazzola, Administrative Assistant
• Vicki Puluso, Administrative Assistant
• Jack Brauntuch, Special Counselor

Directors

• Jeremiah Milbank III, President
• Jeremiah M. Bogert, Vice President
• Peter C. Morse, Secretary and Treasurer

Former Directors

• Jeremiah Milbank, Jr., President Emeritus
• Wm. Lee Hanley, Jr., Treasurer
• Mary Caslin Ross

Contact Details

JM Foundation
The JM Foundation
116 Village Boulevard – Suite 200
Princeton, NJ 08540
Website: http://fdnweb.org/jm/

Phone: 609-951-2283