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James Deering Danielson Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC | $40,000 |
| DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY | $15,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $15,000 |
| ICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THOMAS ARMOUR YOUTH BALLET | $10,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF FRANKLIN & WILLIAMSON COUNTY - FRANKLIN THEATER | $10,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY | $5,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC | $5,000 |
| BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- VMVIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +119%
- TDTHE DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +28%
- SVSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- JMJDRF - MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHAPTERone grant, 2022 · $15k
- JTJDRF - TENNESSEE CHAPTERone grant, 2023 · $15k
- CFCenter For Freedom and Prosperityone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -88%
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The institute for defense analyses is organized for the purpose of applied research. the institute for defense analyses provides independent and objective scientific and technological expertise to assist national security decision-makers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wood River Land Trust Co. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 76 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 VIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION & FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds Atlas Economic Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds Tholos Foundation ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · T & T Family Foundation · Cobb Family Foundation Inc · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Batchelor Foundation 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 James Deering Danielson 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.
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% 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.
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