· Public charity
Funding Arts Broward Inc
Funding arts broward supports, sustains and enriches the arts in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $655,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $719,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $63,100 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $237k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $321k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $162,400 |
| ART PREVAILS PROJECT | $158,100 |
| MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN | $30,000 |
| THE FORT LAUDERDALE CHILDREN'S BALLET THEATRE INC | $24,000 |
| BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $17,000 |
| FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $16,800 |
| THE GIRL CHOIR OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC | $16,500 |
| FLORIDA'S SINGING SONS INC | $15,600 |
| CORAL SPRINGS MUSEUM OF ART INC | $13,500 |
| SLOW BURN THEATRE COMPANY INC | $12,400 |
| GOLD COAST JAZZ SOCIETY INC | $12,400 |
| NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC | $12,000 |
| GAY MEN'S CHORUS OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC | $12,000 |
| SERAPHIC FIRE INC | $12,000 |
| FANTASY THEATRE FACTORY INC | $12,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $114k) 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SFSOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $242k · revenue +8%
- APART PREVAILS PROJECT INC2× · 2023–2025 · $173k · revenue +71%
- FTFANTASY THEATRE FACTORY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- MCMASTER CHORALE OF S FLone grant, 2018 · $16k
- IOInside Out Theatre Company Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +34%
- TGTHE GIRLS' CLUB FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +242%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ballet instruction - students up to the age of 18
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improving civic life through public perf
Four African American plays were produced during the season to a total of 3,000 diverse audiences. A Kuanza event was held to honor these in the community who supported the arts and to celebrate the acheivements of African Americans. Year…
PAXy came together to promote Cultural Arts, and to educate and raise awareness of Miami's Cultural Arts and its benefits.
The Mission of ME Dance is to introduce innovative ideas through dance to create growth in the arts community. Our goal is to enrich the arts community by providing an outlet to feature talent in art through entertainment.
The mission of the florida ballet is to enrich and inspire the cultural landscape of our community through the education and art of classical ballet.
Adele Myers and Dancers is a professional national touring dance theater company that suppports Miami-based dance artists at early stages of their careers by offering a commission for new work, mentorship, and performance opportunities in…
Entertainment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fort Lauderdale Children's Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Girls' Club Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
55 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. 55 of the 57 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.
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 SOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ART PREVAILS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FANTASY THEATRE FACTORY INC ↗
- Who funds SERAPHIC FIRE INC ↗
- Who funds SLOW BURN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD ART & CULTURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT LAUDERDALE CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GOLD COAST JAZZ SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PRIDE WIND ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds MASTER CHORALE OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Florida's Singing Sons Inc ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S CHORUS OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIRL CHOIR OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds New City Players Inc ↗
- Who funds Island City Stage Inc ↗
- Who funds Old Dillard Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AT ART OF BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSERVEINC ↗
- Who funds FORT LAUDERDALE CHILDREN'S BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE NOW ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZILIAN VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds MIAMI GAY AND LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THINKING CAP THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CORAL SPRINGS MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Hued Songs Inc ↗
- Who funds STONEWALL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds VOLTA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Plays of Wilton Inc ↗
- Who funds PATRONS OF EXCEPTIONAL ARTISTSINC ↗
- Who funds Embrace Music Foundation 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: Community Foundation of Broward Inc · Our Fund Foundation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Warten Foundation Inc · Bbx Capital Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Sonia Alden Foundation Inc Co Dr Cathy Friedman · Fifty Over Fifty Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · Windhover Foundation Inc · Florida Humanities Council Inc
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 Funding Arts Broward 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.
- Hued Songs Inc — 12% of income from government
- Brazilian Voices Inc — 5% of income from government
- City Theatre Inc — 3% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Girl Choir of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stonewall Library and Archives Inc — 1% of income from government
- Master Chorale of South Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Seraphic Fire Inc — 0% of income from government
- Fantasy Theatre Factory 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.