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Sol Taplin Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $470k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $100,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FDN | $75,000 |
| SHUL OF BAL HARBOUR INC | $75,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FDN | $70,000 |
| MICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JCC | $50,000 |
| CAMILLUS HOUSE | $50,000 |
| JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATRION INC | $50,000 |
| BETTER WAY OF MIAMI | $25,000 |
| UM-MIAMI PROJECT TO CURE PARALYSIS | $25,000 |
| AM COM FOR WEIZMANN INST OF SCIENCE | $20,000 |
| SHUL OF BAL HARBOUR INC | $20,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC | $20,000 |
| CAMILLUS HOUSE | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORY ART | $15,000 |
| AM COM FOR WEIZMANN INST OF SCIENCE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $555k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- MSMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $530k · revenue +140%
- MRMICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +17%
- NWNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $350k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -12%
- UWUNITED WAY OF DADE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $25k
- UOUniversity of Miamigraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +66%
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.
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…
Miami jewish health systems, inc. was incorporated to provide shelter for the elderly and develop social & health programs relating to their care. in addition, research & educational programs are conducted for the elderly to enhance their…
Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. our vision is…
Barry university is a catholic institution of higher education founded by the adrian dominican sisters. with a liberal arts tradition, barry university is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate,…
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…
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To provide, and guide other schools in providing, an education in both jewish and secular studies that meet the needs of the invididual student, and which empowers each student to reach his/her highest level of independent and…
Achieve miami, inc. is a florida 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a transformational educational ecosystem in miami. in partnership with leaders across the public and private sectors, achieve miami designs and…
The mission of jessie trice community health system, inc. (the orgainzation) is to improve health equality for our diverse south florida community by providing and increasing access to quality comprehensive primary care services. please…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Overtown Optimist Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 48 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 GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMILLUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER WAY OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OVERTOWN OPTIMIST CLUB ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc ↗
- Who funds Florida Center for Theological Studies Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds COCONUT GROVE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY 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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Fairholme Foundation · Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation · South Florida Sports Foundation Inc · Alvah H & Wyline P Chapman Foundation · The Kirk Foundation · Florida Panthers 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 Sol Taplin Charitable 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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
- Here's Help Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Better Way of Miami Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gulliver Preparatory School 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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