Florida · Private foundation
The Garner Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $860k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2026
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 60
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 13
- Total assets, FY2026
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 20% of the organizations The Garner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 54 | $860k | 13% |
| FY2025 | 60 | $878k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $851k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $1.1M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $791k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $662k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $663k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $562k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Country Day School Inc | $1,759,000 | 10 | 1% |
| First Serve Miami Inc | $632,500 | 8 | 31% |
| Barry University Inc | $431,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Bay Oaks Historic Retirement Residence Inc | $240,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation | $170,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Darlington School Inc | $140,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Optimist International Foundation | $130,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator | $118,700 | 6 | 4% |
| Westminster Christian Private School Inc | $112,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jackson Health Foundation Inc | $91,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Garner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
About The Garner Foundation
- How much does The Garner Foundation give?
- The Garner Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $860,400 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 60 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does The Garner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (14%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are The Garner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Miami Country Day School Inc ($1.8M), First Serve Miami Inc ($633k), Barry University Inc ($432k).
- Does The Garner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Garner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Garner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Miami Foundation Inc, The Batchelor Foundation Inc, United Way Miami Inc.
- Where is The Garner Foundation based?
- The Garner Foundation is based in FL.
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