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Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$230k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 24
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$82M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$230k43%
FY20238$395k25%
FY20229$1.4M44%
FY20214$78k50%
FY202024$995kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.0MEducation$304kHousing & Shelter$25kMembership Benefit$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($520k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSkystone Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetDia Center for the Arts Inc: $366,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetInstitute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc: $268,300 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWalton Education Foundation In: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLocust Projects Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetSouth Florida Art Center Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of the Bass Museum Inc: $64,785 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAmigos del Museo del Barrio Inc El Museo del Barrio: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Studio Museum in Harlem: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBay Arts Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetArtists Space Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMiami Light Project Inc: $15,750 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWhite Columns Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Fountainhead Residency Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDestin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida International University Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Miami Foundation IncFL20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Arison Arts Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Fifty Over Fifty Inc · Albert H and Jane D Nahmad Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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How do I get to Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation 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.

About Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc

How much does Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc give?
Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $230,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Philanthropy (32%), Education (10%).
Who are Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Skystone Foundation Inc ($1.0M), Dia Center for the Arts Inc ($367k), Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc ($268k).
Does Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Miami Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Arison Arts Foundation.
Where is Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc based?
Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 35 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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