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Miguel B Fernandez Family Foundation

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.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$875k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$25MArts & Culture$4.0MHealth$3.5MHuman Services$2.2MPhilanthropy$2.2MYouth Development$1.8MCivil Rights$1.0MReligion$712kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.2M
$83,333
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND$875,000
BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION$500,000
CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL$500,000
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$500,000
RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL$491,000
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$363,578
CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL$200,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$187,500
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$136,422
THE CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT OF FLORIDA$125,000
FRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA$125,000
THE CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT OF FLORIDA$100,000
CANDLES HOLOCUST MUSEUM$100,000
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$83,333
JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION$54,208
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $1.1M) 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.

area typical 12%ST HENRY DE OSSO FAMILY PROJECT: $25k → 25%Mourning Family Foundation: $700k → 15%Mourning Family Foundation: $200k → 15%Mourning Family Foundation: $200k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$37M · 40 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
40

Total granted

$37M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+34%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

  • MD
    MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +125%
  • LU
    Loyola University Maryland Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +22%
  • EC
    EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +182% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • TI
    The IMPAC Fund Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $850k · revenue -99% · 76% of their budget
  • CR
    CRISTO REY MIAMI FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $750k
  • MF
    MCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Miami
2
Miami-Dade Foundation for Educational Innovation Inc

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.

Education
3
Ana G Mendez University Inc

Agmu is an accredited post-secondary institution committed to delivering academic excellence to hispanics and the community at large through face-to-face and distance learning modalities. agmu provides the highest quality education,…

Education
4
Downtown Doral Charter Upper School Inc

To provide our students with a comprehensive dual curriculum and bicultural/bilingual education through language acquisition and innovative programs, facilitated by a highly qualified staff promoting students' academic excellence creating…

Education
5
Communities in Schools of Miami Inc

The mission of communities in schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

6
Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Miami Association of Realtors Inc

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…

8
Ave Maria University Inc

University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church

Education
9
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
10
Kipp Miami Inc

Kipp miami public schools seek to create and sustain high achieving and inspiring community schools that battle inequity by empowering students to develop the knowledge, skills, character strengths, and habits to thrive in college and…

Education
11
Miami Country Day School Inc

Miami country day school's mission is to educate children from junior kindergarten through 12th grade.

Education
12
Parent to Parent of Miami Inc

Parent to parent of miamis mission is to empower and support a network of parents who have children and adults with disabilities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mourning Family Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mas is more Pto 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%5%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr11%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr11%42%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
13%
4,379/32,495

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.

04the grantee network

41 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 87 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
32/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Loyola University Maryland Inc — $4,246,929 · OtherLoyola University Maryland IncCOLLEGE OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER — $2,500,472 · OtherCOLLEGE OF ST FRANCIS XAVIERIndividual grant recipient — $1,500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientXAVIER HIGH SCHOOL — $1,000,000 · OtherXAVIER HIGH SCHOOLThe IMPAC Fund Inc — $850,000 · OtherCARROLLTON SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART — $750,000 · OtherCRISTO REY MIAMI FUND — $750,000 · OtherCAMILLUS HOUSE INC — $643,609 · Other+56 more — $6,184,846 · Other+56 moreMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,599,955 · EducationMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATI…RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC — $3,486,986 · EducationRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL IN…CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC — $704,700 · EducationCRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOO…University of Miami — $437,500 · Education+3 more — $61,897 · EducationEARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC — $4,243,290 · Youth DevelopmentEARLY CHILDHOOD…OVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC — $1,504,134 · Youth DevelopmentOVERTOWN YOUTH …+1 more — $20,041 · Youth DevelopmentJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $3,000,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $2,000,000 · HealthJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $395,769 · Health+4 more — $95,000 · HealthTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $1,173,695 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $439,725 · PhilanthropyMOURNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $1,100,000 · Human Services+2 more — $45,000 · Human Services
Other$18,425,856Education$10,291,038Youth Development$5,767,465Arts & Culture$3,050,000Health$2,490,769Philanthropy$1,613,420Human Services$1,145,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,599,955 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc — $4,246,929 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC — $4,243,290 over 7y, 100% of budgetRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC — $3,486,986 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $3,000,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $2,000,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC — $1,504,134 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $1,173,695 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMOURNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $1,100,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetThe IMPAC Fund Inc — $850,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetCRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC — $704,700 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC — $643,609 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HERALD CHARITIES INC — $500,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $439,725 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $437,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP — $425,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $395,769 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCANDLES — $311,593 over 2y, 43% of budgetST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER — $105,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC — $70,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWORLDWIDE DOCUMENTARIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $44,809 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST HENRY DE OSSO FAMILY PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC — $20,041 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCASA VALENTINA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetIGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHONEY SHINE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $10,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR PRIDE ACADEMY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOCCER ACADEMY OF THE AMERICAS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPEDIATRIC ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT CARE HOUSING & EVALU SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCCJ INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MURRAY DRANOFF FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKRISTI HOUSE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Loyola University Maryland Inc
  • Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC
  • Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc
  • Who funds OVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MOURNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The IMPAC Fund Inc
  • Who funds CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds CAMILLUS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds THE HERALD CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC
  • Who funds University of Miami
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP
  • Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CANDLES
  • Who funds ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER

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.

The Miami Foundation IncFL35.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Peacock Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Jose Milton Foundation · Medina Family Foundation Inc · Key Biscayne Community Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · John S and James L Knight 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 Miguel B Fernandez 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Kristi House Inc49% of income from government
  • Goodwill Industries of South Florida Inc24% of income from government
  • United Way Miami Inc23% of income from government
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc6% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc2% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc1% of income from government
  • St Thomas University Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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