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The Fairholme 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.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $685k
- $250k+3 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERKOWITZ CONTEMPORARY FOUNDATION INC | $10,400,000 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF MIAMI | $110,000 |
| WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GOG FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WNET | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| TEMPLE JUDEA | $50,000 |
| LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC | $50,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CHABAD OF PANAMA CITY | $25,000 |
| NOKUSE EDUCATION INC | $25,000 |
| WALTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +56% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $705k 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
- BCBERKOWITZ CONTEMPORARY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $55M · revenue +811% · 98% of their budget
- UOUniversity of Miami5× · 2017–2023 · $7.4M · revenue +96%
- TBTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MSMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- FCFRIENDSHIP CIRCLEone grant, 2017 · $110k
- SRSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -20%
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
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."
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Born Free Pet Shelter 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 98 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 BERKOWITZ CONTEMPORARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds Worldwide Friends Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE GOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds The National Film Preserve Ltd ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NOKUSE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAY EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation C/O Richard Kohan Afo LLC · Albert H and Jane D Nahmad Foundation Inc · Julie and Martin Franklin Family Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation 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 The Fairholme 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.
- Voices for Children Foundation Inc — 48% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- Dolphin Research Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bay Education Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pine Crest Preparatory School 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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