· Private foundation
Miami International Festival Inc
Music education that is effective, accessible and affordable for all miami-dade children, by employing strategies to identify, inspire and develop a network of high performing, miami-dade county based authentic creators, develop a trusting, collaborative relationship with the m-dcps superintendent, senior administration, principals and…
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96% of Miami International Festival Inc’s FY2020 grant dollars went to The Miami Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Miami International Festival Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $868k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $830k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUITARS OVER GUNS | $150,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $139,000 |
| YWCA OF MIAMI DADE INC | $119,125 |
| YOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC | $116,492 |
| TRADISYON LAKOU LAKAY INC | $112,500 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING MIAMI | $103,000 |
| BUSKERFEST INC | $90,000 |
| MAXIMILLIAN CONSULTANTS INC | $37,500 |
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 (FY19–19, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
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…
Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.
Volta music foundations mission is to provide students in underserved communities the opportunity to advance their musical careers through a variety of educational programs and talent development opportunities.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Achieve miami, inc. is a florida 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a transformational educational ecosystem in miami. in partnership with leaders across the public and private sectors, achieve miami designs and…
The milagro foundation, inc., dba the milagro center (the center) is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1997 whose mission is to enrich the lives of children through cultural arts, living values and academic support. the center's…
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
Community orchestra
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learningmiami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Buskerfest Miami Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds Buskerfest Miami Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEWIS PRIZE 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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Miami International Festival 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.
- Young Musicians Unite Inc — 0% of income from government
- Arts for Learningmiami Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Miami Foundation 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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