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Channel 7 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.

$484k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$125k
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 FY20222024.

Health$619kFood & Nutrition$310kPhilanthropy$107kYouth Development$83kScience & Tech$40kHuman Services$35kRecreation & Sports$9kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$222k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$125,000
DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC$100,000
PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC$100,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$25,000
MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE$20,000
MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BROWARD COUNTY$12,500
GUITARS OVER GUNS$10,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$10,000
FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA$10,000
FLORIDA GIRLS GIVING BACK$5,000
THE TUA FOUNDATION$5,000
BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$5,000
SOLES4SOULS INC$5,000
YMCA OF SOUTH FLORIDA$5,000
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 (FY22–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOLES4SOULS INC: $5k → 14%SOLES4SOULS INC: $5k → 14%SOLES4SOULS INC: $5k → 14%CHILDRENS HARBOR INC: $5k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $5k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $5k → 13%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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of Channel 7 Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 51% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Channel 7 Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$1.0M
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+18%

Still filing today

93%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • DC
    DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $335k · revenue +42%
  • PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +15%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • BP
    BLACK PROFESSIONAL NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue 0%

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
Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum

Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…

Arts & Culture
2
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc

The mission of the boys & girls club of palm beach county is to inspire and assist all young people, especially those who need them most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
3
Breakthrough Miami Inc

Breakthrough miami uses a unique "students-teaching-students" model to create a rigorous, vibrant learning community, where highly motivated, under-resourced 5th-12th grade students are supported to achieve post- secondary success and…

Education
4
Childnet Inc

Childnet's mission is to protect broward and palm beach counties' abused, abandoned and neglected children, to ensure their safety and to promptly provide them with a permanent, loving home.

Human Services
5
Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Florida Inc

Big brothers big sisters association of florida strengthens and expands evidence-based youth mentoring services statewide by providing resources, advocacy, and support to 11 local affiliates.

Youth Development
6
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
7
Doctors Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of doctors hospital, inc. is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health
8
University of Miami
9
Miami Association of Realtors Inc

The miami association of realtors (miami) was chartered by the national association of realtors in 1920 and is celebrating 105 years of service to realtors, the buying and selling public, and the communities in south florida. comprised of…

10
Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami Inc

To provide services and programs for children.

Youth Development
11
Baptist Health Medical Group Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of baptist health medical group inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist…

Health
12
Miami Cancer Institute At Baptist Health Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of miami cancer institute at baptist health, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Professional Network Inc. 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 backsteadyMiami Business & Civic Advo…Youth Advocacy and EducationFamily Support & Social Ser…Arts & Cultural Organizatio…Youth Development ProgramsYacht Clubs and Social ClubsAffordable Housing Developm…
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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%3%<5yr17%13%5–10yr21%7%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr8%32%35–55yr11%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr17%2%5–10yr21%29%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr8%36%35–55yr11%25%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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%0/31
the rest of the field
17%
4,992/29,651

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.

05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 36 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC — $335,000 · HealthDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $201,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC — $30,000 · Health+4 more — $37,500 · Health+4 morePROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $300,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR H…+1 more — $10,000 · Food & NutritionTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $52,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI…UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…FLORIDA GIRLS GIVING BACK INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC — $25,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BROWARD INC — $12,500 · OtherYMCA OF SOUTH FLORIDA — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BROWARD INC — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CARD — $3,000 · OtherBLACK PROFESSIONAL NETWORK INC — $7,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY BOATING INC — $5,000 · OtherTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Other+3 more — $4,700 · OtherMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS — $2,500 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTUA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $5,000 · Youth Development5000 Role Models of Excellence Project Inc — $2,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOLES4SOULS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HARBOR INC — $5,000 · Human Services
Health$603,500Food & Nutrition$310,000Philanthropy$107,000Other$82,700Arts & Culture$44,500Youth Development$43,000Human Services$30,000

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 budgetDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC — $335,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $201,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $52,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLES4SOULS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BROWARD INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTUA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK PROFESSIONAL NETWORK INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFLORIDA GIRLS GIVING BACK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS HARBOR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BROWARD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENNEDY KIDS INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget5000 Role Models of Excellence Project Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA SPORTS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 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 Frederick a Deluca Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Channel 7 Foundation 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 · 100%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • United Way of Broward County Inc27% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of Broward Inc6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc5% of income from government
  • Museum of Discovery and Science Inc2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc2% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc1% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Channel 7 Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Channel 7 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.

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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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