· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE JUDEA | $50,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NOKUSE EDUCATION INC | $25,000 |
| BAY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHABAD OF PANAMA CITY | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- NYNew York Universityone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +21%
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.
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.
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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…
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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.
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 98 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 New York University ↗
- Who funds SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds THE GOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- 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 WALTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION IN ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fairholme Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fairholme Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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