· Private foundation
Lynn & Louis Wolfson II Family 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $202k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $755k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $185,000 |
| THE CLEO INSTITUTE INC | $185,000 |
| PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR | $100,000 |
| ARMOUR DANCE THEATRE | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC | $60,000 |
| JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS INC | $50,000 |
| BAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX INC | $40,000 |
| THE EDUCATION FUND | $40,000 |
| MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC | $35,000 |
| BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC | $30,000 |
| DADE HERITAGE TRUST INC | $30,000 |
| GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC | $27,000 |
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, $245k) 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 +40% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
- MDMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2025 · $481k · revenue +125%
- UOUniversity of Miami2× · 2019–2021 · $408k · revenue +67%
- TCTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC3× · 2021–2025 · $360k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- UUUSC UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT GIFTone grant, 2021 · $300k
- USUM SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONone grant, 2024 · $167k
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +15%
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.
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…
Form 990, part 1, line 1 - organization mission and significant activities the mission of dance now miami is to promote the artistic vision of co- founders hannah baumgarten and diego salterini. the company creates, promotes and produces…
Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. our vision is…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.
The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.
The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…
Clean miami beach is dedicated to keeping our community and natural habitats free of garbage and harmful pollutants with a focus on single-use plastics. the goal is to teach residents, and educate the youth of today, how everyone can…
Offer cultural experience
The mission of the musuem of contemporary art is to contemporary art accesible to diverse audiences - especially underserved populations through the collection, preservation and exhibition of the best of contemporary art and its art…
Community orchestra
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in and the most unlike its peers is Journalism Funding Partners. 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 39 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 35 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds THE CLEO INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Journalism Funding Partners ↗
- Who funds DADE HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CONECTA MIAMI ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC ↗
- Who funds BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TROPICAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NU DECO ENSEMBLE 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: The Miami Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Kirk Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Peacock Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · Fifty Over Fifty Inc · Albert H and Jane D Nahmad Foundation Inc · Alexander C Macintyre Charitable Trust II
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 Lynn & Louis Wolfson II Family 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.
- Friends of the Underline Inc — 66% of income from government
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Bakehouse Art Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nu Deco Ensemble Inc — 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Musicians Unite Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in — 0% of income from government
- Adrienne Arsht Center Trust 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.
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