· Private foundation
Medina Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SEED SCHOOL OF MIAMI | $150,000 |
| JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CAMILLUS HOUSE | $20,000 |
| FIRST SERVE MIAMI | $15,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MIAMI LACROSSE CLUB | $10,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| LUCY FERNANDEZ FOUNDATION | $5,200 |
| GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRITY | $5,000 |
| ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY | $1,300 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MIAMI ANIMALS | $1,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $600 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CHCAMILLUS HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $410k · revenue +104%
- JHJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +272%
- EMENDEAVOR MIAMI INC3× · 2017–2019 · $225k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- TMTHE MIAMI-DADE BEACON COUNCIL INCone grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue +6%
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMIone grant, 2017 · $63k
- TFTHE FIRST TEE OF MIAMIone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
To serve as a catalyst for the establishment of miami as the technology hub for the americas in order to propel innovation and investment in south florida and latin america.
The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…
Miami-dade innovation authority bridges the gap between private innovators and the public sector to fast track innovation that improves quality of life for miamians.
To provide students with a comprehensive international education through the use of technology and language acquisition, so that students will become life-long inquisitive learners and utilize this knowledge across international boundaries.
Support of miami university
Americas society is an educational forum which presents programs in its public policy and cultural affairs departments.
The miami association of realtors (miami) was chartered by the national association of realtors in 1920 and is celebrating 105 years of service to realtors, the buying and selling public, and the communities in south florida. comprised of…
To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the advancement of florida international university and its objectives (see schedule o for…
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Miami Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
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 91 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 CAMILLUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENDEAVOR MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI-DADE BEACON COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds RAICES DE ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds VIJAY AMRITRAJ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds Miami Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds APOLLO THEATER 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: The Miami Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Kirk Foundation · Miguel B Fernandez Family Foundation · The Gloria Estefan Foundation Inc · Anthony Abraham Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Cobb Family Foundation Inc · Baptist Health South Florida Inc · The Jose Milton Foundation
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 Medina Family Foundation 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.
- Voices for Children Foundation Inc — 48% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc — 1% of income from government
- Belafonte Tacolcy Center — 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- St Thomas University 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Medina Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Medina Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.