· Private foundation
The Garner Foundation
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k31 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $419k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| FIRST SERVE MIAMI | $115,000 |
| BAY OAKS HISTORIC RETIREMENT RESIDENCE INC | $80,000 |
| OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ATHLETICS | $40,000 |
| OVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER | $30,000 |
| NEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS | $30,000 |
| SAINT THOMAS UNIVERSITY | $29,000 |
| WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR INC | $20,000 |
| JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| DARLINGTON SCHOOL | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2026, 52 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- MCMIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC10× · 2017–2026 · $1.8M · revenue +105%
- FSFIRST SERVE MIAMI INC8× · 2019–2026 · $633k · revenue +28% · 31% of their budget
- BUBARRY UNIVERSITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $432k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- UCUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- ENEARTH N US INCone grant, 2019 · $20k
- MAMAKE A WISHone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
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.
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…
We strive to be the school where students dare to dream. We promise to make sure no doors for students are ever closed. We value the privilege of our role in shaping the future leaders of tomorrow. Together, we will create an inspiring…
The institute for child and family health is committed to empowering the children, youth and families of miami-dade county, florida by providing services that enhance their emotional, physical and educational well-being.
Support of miami university
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
To provide our students with a comprehensive dual curriculum and bicultural/bilingual education through language acquisition and innovative programs, facilitated by a highly qualified staff promoting students' academic excellence creating…
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
Downtown miami charter school, inc. is nonprofit corporation and a component unit of the public school board of miami-dade county, florida. the school is a public charter school which serves students from kindergarten to sixth grade in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbors 4 Neighbors and the most unlike its peers is Anc Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Inc. 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 36 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 163 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 MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BAY OAKS HISTORIC RETIREMENT RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF SOUTH FLA INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MIAMI DADE INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS BY THE SEA INC ↗
- Who funds OVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
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 · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Kirk Foundation · Anthony Abraham Foundation · The H Foundation · Peacock Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Thomas E Rodgers Jr Foundation Inc · Lacy 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 The Garner 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.
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- Care Elementary School Inc — 8% of income from government
- Epilepsy Florida Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 1% 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
- Dolphin Research Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lauren's Kids Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Cushman School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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.