· Private foundation
Mitchell Wolfson Sr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $337k
- $250k+3 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $9,208,776 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $1,146,797 |
| MIAMI JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEMS INC | $573,398 |
| MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER INC | $229,359 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC | $57,340 |
| MIAMI CITY BALLET | $50,000 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $39,127 |
| CHILDRENS BURN FOUNDATION | $32,620 |
| TEMPLE BETH AM | $31,325 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES INC | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC | $22,936 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $12,849 |
| CAMILLUS HOUSE INC | $11,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PALAZZO DUCALE | $10,400 |
| CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.8M) 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MDMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $29M · revenue +22% · 32% of their budget
- UOUniversity of Miami5× · 2021–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +48%
- MJMIAMI JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEMS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +7%
Funded once
- MCMONROE COUNCIL OF THE ARTS CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue -6%
- FIFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FFFERRE FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MAURICE A FERRE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…
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…
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
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…
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…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…
The mission of the musuem of contemporary art is to contemporary art accesible to diverse audiences - especially underserved populations through the collection, preservation and exhibition of the best of contemporary art and its art…
How this is measured
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 University of Miami ↗
- Who funds MIAMI JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CAMILLUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEO INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNCIL OF THE ARTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FERRE FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MAURICE A FERRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Kirk Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The Garner Foundation · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Broward Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mitchell Wolfson Sr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mitchell Wolfson Sr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Goodwill Industries of South Florida Inc: 24% of income from government
- Care Elementary School Inc: 8% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
- Bakehouse Art Complex Inc: 2% of income from government
- Stonewall Library and Archives Inc: 1% of income from government
- Barry University Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in: 0% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
- Seraphic Fire Inc: 0% of income from government
- Monroe Council of the Arts Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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