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Bechily-Hodes Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$287k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$154k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.0MPhilanthropy$103kHealth$87kInternational$51kCrime & Legal$20kEducation$14kPublic Benefit$12kAnimals$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $154k
$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI$153,675
LOCUST PROJECTS$40,000
WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE$15,000
SOUTH FLORIDA ART CENTER INC$11,500
FLORIDA GRAND OPERA$11,000
FRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA$10,000
ARTES MIAMI INC$8,000
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART NORTH MIAMI$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$5,000
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$4,000
BAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX$4,000
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY$3,000
MIAMI CITY BALLET$3,000
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF NORTH MIAMI INC$2,500
SAFE SCHOOLS SOUTH FLORIDA$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $5k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $1k → 14%MIAMI FREEDOM PROJECT FOR DEMOCRACY: $500 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 34 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
26

Total granted

$1.2M
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+24%

Still filing today

85%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • JM
    JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $705k · revenue +174%
  • LP
    LOCUST PROJECTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +46%
  • WP
    WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • G
    GIVEPACT
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +65%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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University of Miami
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2
Museum of Latin American Art

The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…

Arts & Culture
3
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Contemporary Art Inc

The mission of the musuem of contemporary art is to contemporary art accesible to diverse audiences - especially underserved populations through the collection, preservation and exhibition of the best of contemporary art and its art…

Arts & Culture
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
7
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
10
Greater Miami Opera Inc

The mission of greater miami opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera. by expanding its reach to diverse communities throughout miami and fort lauderdale and wider audiences abroad creating a…

Arts & Culture
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Americas Society Inc

Americas society is an educational forum which presents programs in its public policy and cultural affairs departments.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miami Freedom Project for Democracy and the most unlike its peers is Treatments for Epilepsy and Symptoms of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Sports ProgramsLocal Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsDance Arts OrganizationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local History MuseumsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%2%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr9%37%35–55yr12%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr9%77%35–55yr12%5%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/102,987

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
32/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $704,675 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INCLOCUST PROJECTS INC — $99,750 · Arts & CultureLOCUST PROJECTS INCWOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE INC+14 more — $141,910 · Arts & Culture+14 moreNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN …CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN — $10,000 · OtherCHICAGO FOUND…GIVEPACT — $10,000 · OtherGIVEPACTTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART NORTH MIAMI — $10,000 · OtherTHE MUSEUM OF…University of Michigan — $7,500 · OtherK A M ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATION — $5,800 · OtherUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $7,500 · OtherMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $6,000 · OtherThe Police Athletic League Of North Miami In — $5,500 · Other+18 more — $22,750 · Other+18 moreMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthTHE BOARD OF VISITORS — $21,300 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $2,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP — $30,500 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $20,000 · International+1 more — $500 · InternationalNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $9,000 · EducationSAFE SCHOOLS SOUTH FLORIDA — $5,500 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $5,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION — $4,500 · Education+4 more — $1,750 · EducationBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $11,000 · Public BenefitTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $2,950 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP — $2,450 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $2,250 · AnimalsSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $350 · Animals+2 more — $350 · Animals
Arts & Culture$1,001,335Other$160,050Health$78,300International$51,000Education$25,750Public Benefit$11,000Animals$8,350

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $704,675 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLOCUST PROJECTS INC — $99,750 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE INC — $55,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP — $30,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF VISITORS — $21,300 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC — $21,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTESMIAMI INC — $19,410 over 6y, 12% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAWYERS FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS — $13,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $7,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE SCHOOLS SOUTH FLORIDA — $5,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Police Athletic League Of North Miami In — $5,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $4,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $2,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmericanWitness Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP — $2,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI NEW DRAMA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreatments for Epilepsy and Symptoms of — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI FREEDOM PROJECT FOR DEMOCRACY — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Miami Foundation …Jewish Federation of …The Chicago Community…Lloyd a Fry FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…John D and Catherine …John S and James L Kn…Alphawood FoundationWalder FoundationThe Sidley Austin Fou…Circle of Service Fou…
The Miami Foundation IncFL24.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Alphawood Foundation · Walder Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bechily-Hodes Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Women Photographers International Archive Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Bakehouse Art Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bechily-Hodes Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bechily-Hodes Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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