· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC | $40,000 |
| SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY | $15,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $15,000 |
| DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THOMAS ARMOUR YOUTH BALLET | $10,000 |
| ICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF FRANKLIN & WILLIAMSON COUNTY - FRANKLIN THEATER | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC | $5,000 |
| WILSON RIDES INC | $5,000 |
| THE FIGHT AGAINST SUICIDE | $5,000 |
| MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC | $5,000 |
| BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VMVIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +323%
- SVSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +68%
- TDTHE DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- JTJDRF - TENNESSEE CHAPTERone grant, 2023 · $15k
- JMJDRF - MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHAPTERone grant, 2022 · $15k
- CFCenter For Freedom and Prosperityone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -88%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION & FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
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Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James Deering Danielson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Deering Danielson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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