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A Better Miami Dade Inc

The corporation shall be a corporation not-for-profit pursuant to chapter 617 florida statutes, formed and operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare.

$1.9M
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$720k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Public Benefit$2.2MEnvironment$645kCommunity Improvement$318kFood & Nutrition$223kCivil Rights$200kEmployment$100kAnimals$50k
02FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $660k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$222,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH FLORIDA ANTI-CORRUPTION TASK$720,000
FLORIDA WATCH INC$300,000
FLORIDA CONSUMER ALLIANCE INC$250,000
GROW UNITED INC$222,500
FL FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY$215,000
KEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INC$150,000
THE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FL$72,500
AMERICAN INTEGRITY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREY 2K USA WORLDWIDE INC: $50k → 8%COLLECTIVE FUTURE: $200k → 14%THE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FL: $245k → 13%KEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INC: $150k → 13%AMERICAN INTEGRITY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%FLORIDA CONSUMER ALLIANCE INC: $250k → 19%JOBKEEPER ALLIANCE: $100k → 18%CONSUMER POLICY LEAGUE: $100k → 7%GROW UNITED INC: $223k → 12%CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF INTEGRITY: $110k → 14%THE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FL: $73k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA ANTI-CORRUPTION TASK: $720k → 15%FL FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY: $430k → 19%FL FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY: $215k → 19%LET'S PRESERVE THE AMERICAN DREAM: $394k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 3 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -51% since the first grant, against -53% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$954k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-51%
-53%

Still filing today

0%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
EducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FF
    FLORIDIANS FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $645k · 96% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $318k
  • KO
    KEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $300k · revenue -51% · 59% of their budget

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN PROMISE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $394k · revenue -53%
  • CF
    COLLECTIVE FUTURE
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF INTEGRITY
    one grant, 2018 · $110k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Floridians for Tax Fairness

Voter education and awareness

—
2
Floridians for Tax Fairness Inc

The organization's exempt purpose is political advocacy, to promote awareness and fairness in florida and in the united states taxation.

—
3
Florida Alliance for Civic Engagement Inc

None

Public Benefit
4
Florida Beer Wholesalers Association Inc

To provide a clear line of communication and response between the industry and the decision policy makers and regulators at the state level, cooperate with and assist the department of business and professional regulation and all…

—
5
Florida Advancement Project Inc

None

—
6
Florida Federation of Garden Clubs Inc

Further the education of members and the public in the fields of gardening, horticulture, botany, and conservation.

Environment
7
Florida Public Pension Trustees Association Inc

Educate public pension trustees and administrators.

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8
Florida Hospital Association Inc

Develop & promote health care education, information & consultationprograms and services that enhance the quality of health care providedin florida.

—
9
Florida Firefighters Charities Trust

Provide fire prevention education to the general public and humanitarian aid to those who are victims of natural or manmade disasters. to give back to other 501(c)3 organizations who help the general public of our communities within the…

Philanthropy
10
Acronym Inc

To increase civic and electoral engagement across the country through the creation and sustainability of culturally competent, community driven digital and communications infrastructure, messaging, and content that learns from, speaks to,…

—
11
Keep Florida Clean Inc

Advocate against and oppose the passage of constitutional amendment 3 in the state of florida that would have legalized marijuana for possession, purchase, and recreational use in florida for adults 21 years or older.

—
12
Professional Opticians of Florida Inc

The professional opticians of florida is dedicated to enhancing the competency of opticians, advancing the profession of opticianry, and working to resolve the governmental policy issues affecting opticianry.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is GREY2K Usa Worldwide Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH FLORIDA ANTI-CORRUPTION TASK: $720,000 · OtherSOUTH FLORIDA ANTI-CORRUPTION TASKFLORIDIANS FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY INC: $645,000 · OtherFLORIDIANS FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY INCTHE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FL: $317,500 · OtherTHE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FLKEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INC: $300,000 · OtherKEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INCGROW UNITED: $222,500 · OtherGROW UNITEDCOLLECTIVE FUTURE: $200,000 · OtherCOLLECTIVE FUTURECENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF INTEGRITY: $110,000 · OtherCONSUMER POLICY LEAGUE: $100,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherFLORIDA WATCH INC: $300,000 · EducationFLORIDA WATC…JOBKEEPER ALLIANCE: $100,000 · EducationJOBKEEPER AL…THE AMERICAN PROMISE INC: $394,000 · Social ScienceTHE AMERICAN…FLORIDA CONSUMER ALLIANCE INC: $250,000 · Public BenefitGREY2K USA WORLDWIDE INC: $50,000 · Animals
Other$2,625,000Education$400,000Social Science$394,000Public Benefit$250,000Animals$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLORIDIANS FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY INC: $645,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PROMISE INC: $394,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetKEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INC: $300,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetFLORIDA WATCH INC: $300,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFLORIDA CONSUMER ALLIANCE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetJOBKEEPER ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGREY2K USA WORLDWIDE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The People Over Profits Florida IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Better Miami Dade Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Better Miami Dade Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to A Better Miami Dade Inc?

    Find your warmest path to A Better Miami Dade Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $31k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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