· Private foundation
Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation C/O Richard Kohan Afo LLC
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+10 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICKY & MADELEINE ARISON FAMILY FOUNDATION - DONOR ADVISED FUND (DAF) | $4,100,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $2,000,000 |
| THE SUNDARI FOUNDATION- LOTUS HOUSE | $1,500,000 |
| NATIONAL BASKETBALL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA | $765,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $337,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI | $275,000 |
| THE MIAMI PROJECT TO CURE PARALYSIS | $250,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $200,000 |
| AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION (ALS) | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF GREATER MIAMI | $150,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k 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
DIRECT RELIEF7× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +94%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC4× · 2019–2022 · $5.3M · revenue ×11
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF4× · 2018–2022 · $3.1M · revenue +47%
Funded once
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2018 · $2.5M · revenue +11%- UDUNICEF - Designated for Hurrican Irma Reliefone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- ESEHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +908%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ric OBarrys Dolphin Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 121 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds NBA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds EHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED 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 · United Way Miami Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Cobb Family Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation · Anthony Abraham Foundation · Peacock Foundation Inc · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · The Fairholme 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 Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation C/O Richard Kohan Afo LLC 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.
- Refugee Assistance Alliance Inc — 92% of income from government
- Voices for Children Foundation Inc — 48% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Icu Baby Inc — 1% of income from government
- Project Medishare for Haiti 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
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Suited for Success Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lauren's Kids Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope 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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