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The Kirk 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
98
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.6MEducation$1.9MYouth Development$1.3MHuman Services$606kHealth$595kPhilanthropy$425kEnvironment$364kAnimals$253kOther$0
02FY2024 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k65 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $463k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC$100,000
THE EDUCATION FUND$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$53,000
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION$50,000
GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION$50,000
ACHIEVE MIAMI INC$50,000
MIAMI CHILDRENS MUSEUM$50,000
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$50,000
MIAMI CITY BALLET$35,000
YOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE$35,000
BRANCHES$31,000
GREENLIGHT FUND$30,000
GIRLS INC OF GREATER MIAMI$30,000
ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION$30,000
SOUTH MIAMI CORAL GABLES ELKS LODGE 1676$30,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $758k) 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.

area typical 10%LOVE SERVING AUTISM INC: $16k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FL: $15k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FL: $13k → 16%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $3k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $3k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 15%GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN: $25k → 15%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 15%MEXICAN AMERICAN COUNCIL: $30k → 15%MEXICAN AMERICAN COUNCIL: $25k → 15%MEXICAN AMERICAN COUNCIL: $25k → 15%MEXICAN AMERICAN COUNCIL: $25k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%MEXICAN AMERICAN COUNCIL: $2k → 15%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%COCONUT GROVE CARES: $25k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE: $25k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE: $25k → 15%ENFAMILLA: $13k → 15%ENFAMILLA: $13k → 15%BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 15%GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN: $30k → 15%BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL: $28k → 15%BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 15%BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 15%BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 15%GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN: $20k → 15%GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN: $20k → 15%BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL: $16k → 15%WHISPERING MANES: $5k → 15%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF MIAMI: $20k → 15%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF MIAMI: $15k → 15%SERAFIC FIRE: $20k → 15%SERAFIC FIRE: $20k → 15%SERAFIC FIRE: $15k → 15%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $26k → 15%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $25k → 15%SERAFIC FIRE: $15k → 15%SERAFIC FIRE: $15k → 15%SERAFIC FIRE: $13k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE INC: $5k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE INC: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.1M · 117 repeat orgs$844k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

117 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
48

Total granted

$9.1M
$582k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+24%

Still filing today

72%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • MC
    MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $413k · revenue +35%
  • AA
    ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +33%
  • TE
    THE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • FS
    FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue -30%
  • TM
    TOUCHING MIAMI WITH LOVE MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +97%
  • SA
    SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Miami
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2
Miami Music Project Inc

Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. our vision is…

Arts & Culture
3
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
4
Clean Miami Beach Inc

Clean miami beach is dedicated to keeping our community and natural habitats free of garbage and harmful pollutants with a focus on single-use plastics. the goal is to teach residents, and educate the youth of today, how everyone can…

Environment
5
Florida Grand Opera Inc

The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…

Arts & Culture
6
South Florida Symphony Orchestra Inc

The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.

Arts & Culture
7
Miami-Dade Foundation for Educational Innovation Inc

To provide students with a comprehensive international education through the use of technology and language acquisition, so that students will become life-long inquisitive learners and utilize this knowledge across international boundaries.

Education
8
Ywca South Florida Inc

Provide services and programs for women, teens, children, and families of miami-dade county in focusing our mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services
9
Kipp Miami Inc

Kipp miami public schools seek to create and sustain high achieving and inspiring community schools that battle inequity by empowering students to develop the knowledge, skills, character strengths, and habits to thrive in college and…

Education
10
Greater Miami Opera Inc

The mission of greater miami opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera. by expanding its reach to diverse communities throughout miami and fort lauderdale and wider audiences abroad creating a…

Arts & Culture
11
Miami Symphony Orchestra Inc

Renowned for its artistic excellence, innovative programming and commitment to community engagement, the miami symphony orchestra, celebrating its 35th season, stands as miami cultural cornestone and a premier orchestral institution in…

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12
Central Miami Intergroup
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learningmiami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Actors' Playhouse Productions 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr12%20%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/133
the rest of the field
15%
5,989/39,987

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.

04the grantee network

126 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. 126 of the 184 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/126
Grantees still filing
103/126
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRANCHES INC — $246,000 · OtherBRANCHES INCTHE MURRAY DRANOFF FOUNDATION — $167,000 · OtherHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC — $155,000 · OtherSOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $135,000 · OtherZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $164,000 · Other+97 more — $3,074,877 · Other+97 moreMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM — $413,411 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM…ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC — $385,000 · Arts & CultureADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER T…MIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $185,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INCYOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC — $135,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE I…SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $124,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INCORCHESTRA MIAMI INC — $103,000 · Arts & CultureVIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Association — $80,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Arts & CulturePHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $243,250 · Arts & Culture+11 moreTHE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN — $320,000 · EducationTHE EDUCATION FUND I…University of Miami — $313,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiACHIEVE MIAMI INC — $305,000 · EducationACHIEVE MIAMI INCNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $202,500 · EducationNEW WORLD SYMPHONY I…CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC — $125,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S BEREAVEME…MIAMI BOARDING SCHOOL INC — $115,000 · EducationMIAMI BOARDING SCHOO…BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC — $80,000 · Education+12 more — $359,350 · Education+12 moreGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC — $280,000 · Youth DevelopmentGUITARS O…FLORIDA ELKS CHARITIES INC — $174,999 · Youth DevelopmentFLORIDA E…GIRLS INC OF GREATER MIAMI — $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC…CHILDRENS VOICE CHORUS INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDRENS…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTH…+6 more — $118,500 · Youth Development+6 moreBE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC — $149,000 · Human ServicesSERAPHIC FIRE INC — $107,500 · Human ServicesMexican American Council Inc — $107,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $86,000 · Human ServicesMIAMI DIAPER BANK INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF MIAMI INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA — $27,500 · Human Services+7 more — $100,500 · Human ServicesSOFIA'S HOPE INC — $90,000 · HealthHEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT INC — $75,000 · HealthHEARING & SPEECH CENTER OF FLORIDA INC — $70,000 · HealthWELLSPRING COUNSELING INC — $65,000 · HealthBANDING TOGETHER — $60,000 · HealthSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC — $25,000 · Health+3 more — $8,500 · HealthUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $104,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $100,500 · PhilanthropyCORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,941,877Arts & Culture$2,094,161Education$1,819,850Youth Development$873,499Human Services$812,500Health$393,500Philanthropy$329,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM — $413,411 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC — $385,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN — $320,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $313,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVE MIAMI INC — $305,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC — $280,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $202,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $185,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA ELKS CHARITIES INC — $174,999 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetTHE MURRAY DRANOFF FOUNDATION — $167,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $164,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER MIAMI — $160,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC — $155,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC — $149,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC — $135,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $135,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetDADE HERITAGE TRUST INC — $130,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC — $125,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC — $125,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $124,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMIAMI BOARDING SCHOOL INC — $115,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSERAPHIC FIRE INC — $107,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER MIAMI INC — $107,130 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMexican American Council Inc — $107,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $104,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORCHESTRA MIAMI INC — $103,000 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $100,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $100,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN INC — $95,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetSOFIA'S HOPE INC — $90,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCHILDRENS VOICE CHORUS INC — $90,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $86,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetENCOUNTERS IN EXCELLENCE INC — $81,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC — $80,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC — $75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetPHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEARING & SPEECH CENTER OF FLORIDA INC — $70,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGABLESTAGE INC — $65,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWELLSPRING COUNSELING INC — $65,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budget
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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVE MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA ELKS CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MURRAY DRANOFF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER MIAMI ↗
  • Who funds HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds DADE HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI BOARDING SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SERAPHIC FIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds Mexican American Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds ORCHESTRA MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMILLUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SOFIA'S HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS VOICE CHORUS 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.

The Miami Foundation …The Batchelor Foundat…Peacock Foundation IncMightycause Charitabl…Dunspaugh Dalton Foun…United Way Miami IncJohn S and James L Kn…Coral Gables Communit…Ocean Reef Community …The Frederick a Deluc…Greater Miami Jewish …William J and Tina Ro…
The Miami Foundation IncFL101.7× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Peacock Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · William J and Tina Rosenberg

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 Kirk 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Friends of the Underline Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Dream in Green Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
  • United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Girl Power Rocks Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Be Strong International Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida Inc — 14% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Care Elementary School Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Alhambra Music Inc — 8% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
  • City Theatre Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Historical Association of Southern Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Nu Deco Ensemble Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Young Musicians Unite Inc — 0% of income from government
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in — 0% of income from government
  • Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Seraphic Fire Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Educate Tomorrow Corp — 0% of income from government
  • Zoo Miami Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
25get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Kirk Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kirk Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 184 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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