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The Cecil and Ana Milton Family Foundation at a glance

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The Cecil and Ana Milton Family 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.

$96k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Animals$190kYouth Development$81kCrime & Legal$50kArts & Culture$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$10kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZOO MIAMI$80,000
UNITED STATES MILITARY FOUNDATION$10,000
BROWARD NAVY DAYS INC$3,750
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED STATES MILITARY FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219k · 4 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$219k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • ZM
    ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $110k · revenue +23%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $56k · revenue +84%
  • PO
    POLICE OFFICER ASSISTANCE TRUST
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MIAMI
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • XC
    XAVIER CORTADA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -64%
  • AI
    ALFALIT INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +46%
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
University of Miami
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2
Central Miami Intergroup
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3
The Miami Girls Foundation Inc
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4
Miami International Festival Inc
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5
Unity Coalition Coalicion Unida Inc

UNITY COALITION|COALICION UNIDA is the organization for the Hispanic, Indigenous & Of Color LGBT+ communities, advancing Equality & Fairness, through the Arts, Education, and Awareness, since 2002.

Civil Rights
6
Technology Innovation Foundation of the Americas Inc

To serve as a catalyst for the establishment of miami as the technology hub for the americas in order to propel innovation and investment in south florida and latin america.

Education
7
Miami-Dade County Citizens Defending Freedom Usa Inc

To empower and equip American citizens to defend their freedoms and liberties at the local level.

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8
Rotary Club Miami Airport Inc
Community Improvement
9
Alvarez & Marsal Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
10
Give to Colombia Inc

Give to colombia is a non-profit organization whose mission is to facilitate the channeling of resources towards high-impact social projects in colombia and latin america in the areas of education, health & nutrition, economic development,…

International
11
The Harvey Milk Foundation Florida Corp
Philanthropy
12
Gmaa-Bachelor Aviation Scholarship
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Miami Inc; the most unlike its peers is Xavier Cortada Foundation 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $110,250 · AnimalsZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INCZOO MIAMI: $80,000 · OtherZOO MIAMIBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MIAMI: $25,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MIAMIAMERICAN RED CROSS: $5,000 · OtherALFALIT INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $9,250 · Other+3 moreGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC: $56,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT COUNC…POLICE OFFICER ASSISTANCE TRUST: $50,000 · Crime & LegalPOLICE OFFICER …+1 more: $1,600 · Crime & LegalXAVIER CORTADA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED STATES MILITARY FOUNDATION INC A/K/A KIDS AND FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Animals$110,250Other$124,250Youth Development$56,000Crime & Legal$51,600Arts & Culture$15,000Human Services$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $110,250 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC: $56,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPOLICE OFFICER ASSISTANCE TRUST: $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetXAVIER CORTADA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED STATES MILITARY FOUNDATION INC A/K/A KIDS AND FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALFALIT INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROWARD NAVY DAYS INC: $3,750 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $2,500 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.

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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 Cecil and Ana Milton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cecil and Ana Milton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • United Way Miami Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida Inc: 14% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Zoo Miami Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 The Cecil and Ana Milton Family 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 14 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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