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Miguel B Fernandez Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$500,000
BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION$500,000
CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL$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
FRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA$125,000
THE CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT OF FLORIDA$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CO
VA
MD
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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

+44%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
  • TH
    THE HERALD CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue -82%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Miami
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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.

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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…

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mourning Family Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
33/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetOUR PRIDE ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetPEDIATRIC ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT CARE HOUSING & EVALU SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCCJ INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOCCER ACADEMY OF THE AMERICAS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MURRAY DRANOFF FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKRISTI HOUSE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Miami Foundation …Coral Gables Communit…Mightycause Charitabl…The Batchelor Foundat…Peacock Foundation IncUnited Way Miami IncGreater Miami Jewish …The Jose Milton Found…Medina Family Foundat…Key Biscayne Communit…The Kirk FoundationJohn S and James L Kn…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Miguel B Fernandez Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miguel B Fernandez Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Kristi House Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Goodwill Industries of South Florida Inc: 24% of income from government
  • United Way Miami Inc: 23% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • St Thomas University Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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