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The Alma Jennings Foundation Incorporated at a glance

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The Alma Jennings Foundation Incorporated

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.

$96k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$242kCrime & Legal$165kReligion$130kHealth$86kRecreation & Sports$58kArts & Culture$39kScience & Tech$20kPublic Benefit$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMRSMAS$20,000
University of Miami School of Law (Room A-110)$13,333
Temple Beth AM$10,000
University of Miami - UHC Champions$10,000
University of Miami Athletics (Zeke)$8,400
University of Miami Athletics (JMF)$8,400
Trinity Cathedral$6,000
Adrienne Arsht Center Foundation$5,000
Friends of the Pool Inc$2,500
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$2,500
Chapel of the Venerable Bede$2,500
University of Miami Citizens$1,600
Coral Gables Community FO$1,520
Key West Literary Seminar$1,000
University of Miami School of Law - Justice Brown$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $3k → 7%TEMPLE BETH AM: $7k → 15%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $3k → 7%TEMPLE BETH AM: $7k → 15%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%TEMPLE BETH AM: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS SCHOOL OF LAW: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $20k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HEALTH: $10k → 15%University of Miami - UHC Champions: $10k → 15%University of Miami - UHC Champions: $10k → 15%Univeristy of Miami: $10k → 15%UHC: $10k → 15%The Rosenstiel School of Marine Atmospheric and Earth Science: $12k → 15%UMRSMAS: $8k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: $5k → 15%UMRSMAS: $5k → 15%CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FO: $8k → 15%CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%University of Miami School of Law: $47k → 15%University of Miami: $17k → 15%UMRSMAS: $14k → 15%Temple Beth AM: $10k → 15%University of Miami Athletics (Zeke): $8k → 15%University of Miami Athletics (JMF): $8k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - WINTER WONDERFUL: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - WINTER WONDERFUL: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $4k → 15%CHAPEL OF THE VENERABLE BEDE: $3k → 15%CHAPEL OF THE VENERABLE BEDE: $3k → 15%CHAPEL OF THE VENERABLE BEDE: $3k → 15%TEMPLE BETH AM: $13k → 15%Temple Beth AM: $13k → 15%Temple Beth AM: $10k → 15%TRINITY CATHEDRAL: $6k → 15%Trinity Cathedral: $6k → 15%ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER: $6k → 15%Trinity Cathedral: $6k → 15%Trinity Cathedral: $6k → 15%ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%Adrienne Arsht Center Foundation: $5k → 15%ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER: $5k → 15%Adrienne Arsht Center Foundation: $5k → 15%ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER: $5k → 15%Adrienne Arsht Center Foundation: $5k → 15%TRINITY CATHEDRAL: $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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$654k · 31 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
19

Total granted

$654k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+62%

Still filing today

42%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • UO
    University of Miami
    6× · 2017–2022 · $148k · revenue +96%
  • AA
    ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +76%
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
  • UO
    University of Miami Athletics
    one grant, 2023 · $17k
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
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

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…

Environment
2
University of Miami
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3
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

—
4
The Everglades Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
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
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
8
Florida Southern College

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…

Education
9
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
10
Flamingo Gardens Inc

To depict and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of south florida and the everglades in or botanical gardens and wildlife sanctuaries.

Animals
11
Salvador Dali Museum Inc

To educate the public and promote understanding, enjoyment, and scholarly examination of art through the exhibition of works by salvador dali and artists of similar vision to preserve and expand its collection of art of dali and related…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

20 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. 20 of the 55 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Miami School of Law: $151,000 · OtherUniversity of Miami School of LawTemple Beth AM: $65,000 · OtherTemple Beth AMUMRSMAS: $46,000 · OtherUMRSMASTRINITY CATHEDRAL: $39,000 · OtherTRINITY CATHEDRALUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $20,000 · OtherUniversity of Miami - UHC Champions: $20,000 · Other+33 more: $229,413 · Other+33 moreUniversity of Miami: $148,080 · EducationUniversity of MiamiFRIENDS OF THE POOL INC: $7,500 · EducationVANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureVILLAGERS INC: $5,600 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $3,450 · Arts & CulturePHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $3,100 · Arts & CultureTHE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM CORP: $2,800 · Arts & CultureCORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,225 · PhilanthropyThe Woody Foundation Inc dba The Way Forward Foundation: $7,500 · PhilanthropyCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $7,500 · HealthPINECREST GARDEN CLUB INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC: $165 · EnvironmentEDUCATE TOMORROW CORP: $3,000 · International
Other$570,413Education$165,580Arts & Culture$35,950Philanthropy$22,725Health$17,500Environment$3,665International$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Miami: $148,080 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,225 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Woody Foundation Inc dba The Way Forward Foundation: $7,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE POOL INC: $7,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetVANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGERS INC: $5,600 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPINECREST GARDEN CLUB INC: $3,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $3,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $3,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATE TOMORROW CORP: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM CORP: $2,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC: $165 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $125 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 University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Woody Foundation Inc dba The Way Forward Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOL INC ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGERS INC ↗
  • Who funds PINECREST GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATE TOMORROW CORP ↗

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 …Mightycause Charitabl…The Batchelor Foundat…Tonkinson Foundation …United Way Miami IncThe Paul J Dimare Fou…Anthony Abraham Found…Dunspaugh Dalton Foun…Greater Miami Jewish …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Miami Foundation IncFL22.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Tonkinson Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The Paul J Dimare Foundation · Anthony Abraham Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 The Alma Jennings Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alma Jennings Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Educate Tomorrow Corp: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get 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 · 0–60%
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 55 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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