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The Imaginate Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Private foundation

The Imaginate Foundation Inc

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.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through 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, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$206kArts & Culture$65kHealth$58kYouth Development$45kRecreation & Sports$44kHuman Services$29kEducation$18kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIAMI SUNS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT$25,000
ROCKSTARR MUSIC GROUP LLC$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 83% of grant dollars ($404k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($80k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YOUTH COMMUNITY HELP SERVICES INC: $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.

Beyond the US: 17% of all-years giving ($80k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Dominican Republic$50k · 2 grants
Puerto Rico$30k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Imaginate Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 48%.

The Imaginate Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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
The Miami Girls Foundation Inc
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2
Miami International Festival Inc
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3
University of Miami
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4
Evans Scholars Foundation - Miami

Educational.

Education
5
Rotary Club Miami Airport Inc
Community Improvement
6
Almas Children Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
7
N Miami Learning Center Inc
Religion
8
Central Miami Intergroup
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9
Mariano Rivera Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Team Emma 4EVER Fighting Childhood Cancer
Philanthropy
11
Big Blue & You Inc

Educate youth about ocean conservation

Youth Development
12
South Miami Middle School Ptsa

Raise funds for school activity

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Missions Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is 305 Gives Back Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 37 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRIS PEREZ EVENTS ON BEHALF OF HURRICANE IRMA RELIEF FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS: $41,000 · OtherPRIS PEREZ EVENTS ON BEHALF OF HURRICANE IRMA RELIEF FOR THE FLORIDA KEYSPLAY DISTRITO MUNICIPAL CALETA: $30,000 · OtherPLAY DISTRITO MUNICIPAL CALETAMIAMI SUNS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · OtherMIAMI SUNS YOUTH DEVELOPMENTKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $25,000 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVEIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $19,000 · OtherALL 4 MADDIE CAKES LLC: $15,000 · Other+16 more: $92,840 · Other+16 moreLATIN GRAMMY CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLATIN GRAMM…BLUE MISSIONS GROUP INC: $10,000 · International305 GIVES BACK INC: $4,785 · InternationalYOUTH COMMUNITY HELP SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMas is more PTO Inc: $4,000 · EducationSOMI VIP INC: $2,500 · EducationFUNDACION INTERNACIONAL AMIGOS DEL NINO CON CANCER INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$387,840Arts & Culture$50,000International$14,785Human Services$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Education$6,500Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLATIN GRAMMY CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetYOUTH COMMUNITY HELP SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE MISSIONS GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFUNDACION INTERNACIONAL AMIGOS DEL NINO CON CANCER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budget305 GIVES BACK INC: $4,785 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSOMI VIP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds LATIN GRAMMY CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH COMMUNITY HELP SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE MISSIONS GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds FUNDACION INTERNACIONAL AMIGOS DEL NINO CON CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds Outside the Ring Champions Foundation Corp ↗
  • Who funds 305 GIVES BACK INC ↗
  • Who funds Mas is more PTO Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOMI VIP INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Imaginate Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Imaginate Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Imaginate Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Imaginate Foundation Inc 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 37 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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