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Ortega 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Ortega Foundation’s FY2024 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. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Ortega Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 44 organizations, $2M. 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k36 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $986k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIGA CONTRA EL CANCER INC LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER IN | $400,000 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC DBA HABITAT | $100,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC - MIAMI | $100,000 |
| URBANPROMISE MIAMI INC | $85,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - FLORIDA DIVISION | $75,700 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| JOSE MARTI FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC | $50,000 |
| MARIAN CENTER CHARITABLE TRUST | $50,000 |
| ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC | $50,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY | $50,000 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $50,000 |
| CAMILLUS HOUSE INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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 +55% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2017, 1 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LCLIGA CONTRA EL CANCER INC (LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER INC)2× · 2017–2018 · $800k · revenue +8%
- JMJOSE MARTI FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2020 · $150k · revenue +10% · 100% of their budget
- UMURBANPROMISE MIAMI INC2× · 2017–2018 · $140k · revenue +7%
Funded once
CITY YEAR INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +15%- STST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +80%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +145%
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…
Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of miami cancer institute at baptist health, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…
Pediatric medical clinic for uninsured and underinsured children
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of doctors hospital, inc. is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of south miami hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of mariner's hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
The NCHRI directly supports the NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ("NCH") mission to provide hope through advanced care for our children and families. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Public Media Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dogs in Crisis 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 80 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 LIGA CONTRA EL CANCER INC (LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER INC) ↗
- Who funds JOSE MARTI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMILLUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN CENTER CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO MATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINDO FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds NU DECO ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Miami Children's Health System Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocesan Council of Miami Inc ↗
- Who funds KRISTI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR GROVE ↗
- Who funds MISSION INTERNATIONAL RESCUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds DOGS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM 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 · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Assurant Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Gus Machado Family Foundation Inc · Padron Family Foundation Inc · Andres Asion Foundation Inc · Jose M Sanchez Family Foundation Inc
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 Ortega 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.
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nu Deco Ensemble Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Thomas University Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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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