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Podhurst Dern Koffsky Weinberg Foundation at a glance

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Podhurst Dern Koffsky Weinberg Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$718k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.7MHealth$719kHuman Services$54kArts & Culture$52kReligion$31kEducation$18kInternational$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $151k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEINBERG FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND$717,630
DERN FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND$698,003
KOFFKSY FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND$698,003
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY$25,000
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$25,000
DALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
DERN FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND$20,002
WEINBERG FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND$19,998
TEMPLE BETH AM$15,875
CHABAD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ASPEN$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION$5,000
GABLESTAGE$5,000
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY$5,000
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$4,100
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 (FY21–24, $54k) 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%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $26k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $25k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $3k → 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.
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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$141k · 9 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$141k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+3%

Still filing today

89%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $54k · revenue +17%
  • GI
    GABLESTAGE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +203%
  • MM
    MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +3%
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
Greater Miami Opera Inc

The mission of greater miami opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera. by expanding its reach to diverse communities throughout miami and fort lauderdale and wider audiences abroad creating a…

Arts & Culture
2
Miami Chamber Music Society

Present classical music concerts and educational and community outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
3
South Florida Symphony Orchestra Inc

The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.

Arts & Culture
4
Florida Grand Opera Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Miami Beach Film Society

Offer cultural experience

Arts & Culture
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
Opera Guild Inc of Fort Lauderdale

To enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera in broward county.

Arts & Culture
8
Miami City Ballet Inc

Miami city ballet's mission is to produce and present the highest level of dance performances throughout florida, the united states and abroad; train young aspiring dancers; and develop miami city ballet school into a leader of dance…

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Contemporary Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Artis-Naples Inc

Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.

Arts & Culture
11
Dance Now Ensemble Inc

Form 990, part 1, line 1 - organization mission and significant activities the mission of dance now miami is to promote the artistic vision of co- founders hannah baumgarten and diego salterini. the company creates, promotes and produces…

Arts & Culture
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Aspen Jewish Center. 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

18 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. 18 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEINBERG FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND: $737,628 · OtherWEINBERG FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUNDDERN FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND: $718,005 · OtherDERN FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUNDKOFFKSY FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND: $698,003 · OtherKOFFKSY FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND+8 more: $114,375 · OtherDALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $101,500 · PhilanthropyDALLAS JEW…GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MI…JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,700 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMM…JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $53,750 · Human ServicesMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureASPEN SANTA FE BALLET: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI NEW DRAMA: $3,000 · Arts & CultureMenil Foundation Inc: $2,500 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART MUSEUM: $1,750 · Arts & CultureLOCUST PROJECTS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC: $15,000 · EducationNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $5,000 · EducationMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,300 · EducationBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 · InternationalPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $500 · Health
Other$2,268,011Philanthropy$240,200Human Services$53,750Arts & Culture$27,250Education$23,300International$4,000Health$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $101,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $53,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGABLESTAGE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Jewish Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN SANTA FE BALLET: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI NEW DRAMA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $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.

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Morton and Helen Yulm…The Kirk FoundationGreater Miami Jewish …The Miami Foundation …The Batchelor Foundat…John S and James L Kn…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Morton and Helen Yulman Charitable Trust · The Kirk Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Podhurst Dern Koffsky Weinberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Podhurst Dern Koffsky Weinberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Miami Music Project Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Podhurst Dern Koffsky Weinberg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 27 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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