· Private foundation
Leonard L and Bertha U Abess 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $250k+1 grant · $322k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $322,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| VIZCAYA | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +78% since the first grant, against +69% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $882k · revenue +44%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $333k · revenue +52%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE7× · 2017–2023 · $245k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- SKSTORM KING ART CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +75%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $33k
- NYNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ARTone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +16%
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.
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.
To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 29 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 MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds VIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC ↗
- Who funds DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MCCJ INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
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: The Jayne and Leonard Abess Foundation Inc C/O Thinklab Ventures · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leonard L and Bertha U Abess Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leonard L and Bertha U Abess Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Goodwill Industries of South Florida Inc: 24% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc: 23% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
- Young Musicians Unite Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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