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Catalyst Miami Inc

The organization's mission is to build power with frontline communities throughout miami-dade county to collectively advance justice and achieve shared prosperity.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$164k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$606kHealth$226kEnvironment$199kCrime & Legal$188kPublic Safety & Disaster$148kEmployment$101kPublic Benefit$83kCommunity Improvement$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $189,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $224,850 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,350 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $164k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SCHOOL BOARD OF MIAMI-DADE COUN$164,250
WECOUNT INC$20,000
MIAMI WORKERS CENTER$5,250
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 (FY17–22, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SO: $10k → 15%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SO: $8k → 15%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SO: $7k → 15%THE ADVOCACY NETWORK ON DISABILITIE: $8k → 15%HAITIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER SANT LA: $31k → 15%TRINITY EMPOWERMENT CONSORTIUM INC: $10k → 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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 16 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$1.4M
$340k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+63%

Still filing today

81%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthEmploymentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • LS
    Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $188k · revenue +59%
  • TS
    TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO
    2× · 2019–2020 · $177k · revenue +392%
  • CF
    CENTRAL FLORIDA JOBS WITH JUSTICE CORP
    2× · 2021–2022 · $85k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $88k · revenue +7%
  • YC
    YOUTH CO-OP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $54k · revenue +63%
  • BI
    BRANCHES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $54k

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.

1
University of Miami
2
Central Miami Intergroup
3
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

4
Miami Homes for All Inc

Miami Homes For All's mission is to ensure that everyone in Miami-Dade has a safe, affordable place to call home.

Human Services
5
Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce Inc

The mission of M-DCC is to create opportunities for economic and social transformation in our community. The vision of M-DCC envision a future where the diaspora of Black businesses thrive.

6
Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc

To focuses on public education and advocacy to generate public awareness of programs and services available to immigrants in Florida.

Civil Rights
7
Code for Miami Inc

Supporting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through open and transparent governments. Building infrastructures connecting people, businesses, and non-profits through localized data. Equipping institutions and communities with modern tools…

8
Orlando Center for Justice

Orlando Center for Justice, Inc.s mission is to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation. We also walk alongside them,…

Crime & Legal
9
Florida Institute for Community Studies Inc

The mission of the Florida Institute for Community Studies, Inc. is to partner with communities across Florida to help them achieve their goals through research, service and education/ training.

10
Miami-Dade Innovation Authority Inc

Miami-dade innovation authority bridges the gap between private innovators and the public sector to fast track innovation that improves quality of life for miamians.

Science & Tech
11
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.

12
Florida Justice Institute Inc

Florida justice institute, inc. is a nonprofit corporation that uses impact litigation and advocacy to improve the lives of florida's poor and disenfranchised residents, while focusing on criminal justice reform, homelessness & poverty,…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Community Development Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 backsteadySenior Residential CareMarine Conservation & Coast…Community Health Care Netwo…Community Health and Senior…Christian Evangelical Minis…
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 21 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%0%<5yr17%10%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr15%40%20–35yr7%10%35–55yr10%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%0%<5yr17%21%5–10yr20%32%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr7%6%35–55yr10%17%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
18%
2,259/12,330

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

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $320,250 · OtherMIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — $119,899 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYCOMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICE FOUNDATION — $87,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICE FOUNDATIONCENTRAL FLORIDA JOBS WITH JUSTICE CORP — $84,500 · OtherCENTRAL FLORIDA JOBS WITH JUSTICE CORPBRANCHES INC — $54,154 · OtherBRANCHES INCYOUTH CO-OP INC — $54,154 · OtherYOUTH CO-OP INCTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC — $61,500 · OtherTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC+6 more — $134,134 · Other+6 moreTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO — $177,455 · EducationTEXAS SOUTHERN…DISABILITY INDEPENDENCE GROUP INC — $38,238 · EducationDISABILITY IND…University of Miami — $16,000 · EducationUniversity of …Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc — $187,500 · Crime & LegalLegal Servic…W MONTAGUE COBB NMA HEALTH INSTITUTE — $83,000 · HealthW MONTAGUE…FLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $54,500 · HealthFLORIDA HE…FLORIDA VOICES FOR HEALTH INC — $30,500 · HealthFLORIDA VO…WECOUNT — $70,276 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $22,500 · Civil RightsSOUTH FLORIDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALITION INC — $74,684 · Community ImprovementMIAMI CHILDRENS INITIATIVE INC — $11,700 · Community ImprovementHAITIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER SANT LA INC — $31,225 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $25,300 · Human ServicesTRINITY EMPOWERMENT CONSORTIUM INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCCDH INC — $8,300 · Human Services
Other$916,091Education$231,693Crime & Legal$187,500Health$168,000Civil Rights$92,776Community Improvement$86,384Human Services$74,825

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 budgetLegal Services of Greater Miami Inc — $187,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO — $177,455 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCENTRAL FLORIDA JOBS WITH JUSTICE CORP — $84,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetW MONTAGUE COBB NMA HEALTH INSTITUTE — $83,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALITION INC — $74,684 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetWECOUNT — $70,276 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC — $61,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $54,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetYOUTH CO-OP INC — $54,154 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISABILITY INDEPENDENCE GROUP INC — $38,238 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetHAITIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER SANT LA INC — $31,225 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFLORIDA VOICES FOR HEALTH INC — $30,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFLORIDA POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $30,284 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $27,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $25,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $22,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMiami Workers Center Inc — $16,250 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CHILDRENS INITIATIVE INC — $11,700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRINITY EMPOWERMENT CONSORTIUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCCDH INC — $8,300 over 1y, 0.5% 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 IncFL34.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Florida Philanthropic Network Inc · Hfsf Grants Management Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Solutions Project Inc · Community Catalyst Inc · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · University of Miami · United States Energy Foundation · New Venture Fund

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 Catalyst Miami Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc2% of income from government
  • Youth Co-Op Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Catalyst Miami Inc?

Find your warmest path to Catalyst Miami 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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