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Dennis & Smith Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $500,000 |
| GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC | $200,000 |
| WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND | $125,000 |
| LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER | $125,000 |
| PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION | $125,000 |
| ENTRELLIANCE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| AREA STAGE | $125,000 |
| ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC | $125,000 |
| NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $125,000 |
| MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $125,000 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
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…
Reef environmental education foundation (reef) was established as a nonprofit organization in 1990. reef conserves marine environments worldwide. our mission is to protect biodiversity and ocean life by actively engaging and inspiring the…
Endeavor miami inc's mission is to lead the movement to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high impact entrepreneurs in the south florida region. high-impact entrepreneurs are individuals…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
To stabilize the population of marine species in danger, especially sharks and rays in the caribbean of guatemala; through science and community strengthening which will provide the creation of alternative livelihoods, which eventually…
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship and the most unlike its peers is The Entrelliance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ENTRELLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AREA STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ACDS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Dennis & Smith 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.
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Area Stage Inc — 1% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Zoo Miami Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gulliver Preparatory School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.