· Public charity
The Miami Foundation Inc
To create a greater miami where everyone can thrive by accelerating generosity, leadership, and community engagement.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1,056 grants below total $117,269,823 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $131,900,957 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,631,134 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k89 grants · $690k
- $10k–50k520 grants · $11M
- $50k–250k390 grants · $41M
- $250k+57 grants · $65M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI | $28,687,507 |
| MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION - GIVE MIAMI DAY | $8,913,674 |
| YOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE | $2,232,920 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $1,062,500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS | $1,040,066 |
| NEW YORK METROPOLITAN OPERA | $1,000,000 |
| MIAMI-DADE INNOVATION AUTHORITY INC | $970,000 |
| THE WOLFSONIAN - FIU | $899,501 |
| TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART | $800,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $771,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR SELF-EMPLOYMENT INC | $726,817 |
| U3 ADVISORS INC | $662,417 |
| NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC | $629,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $611,988 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI | $602,976 |
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 (FY17–24, $13.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
1233 repeat relationships — 663 still active in FY2024, 570 since wound down; 235 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24M 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
- JMJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $53M · revenue +33% · 75% of their budget
- MCMIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $17M · revenue +23%
- FIFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +57%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INCone grant, 2021 · $2.1M · revenue +14% · 48% of their budget
- MCMercy Corpsone grant, 2018 · $1.9M · revenue +22%
- ECEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.2M · revenue +31%
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.
Support of miami university
Free press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. free press conducts research on how the current media system influences the development of public policy and educates the public and policy-makers on how a…
The museum of latin american arts expands knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american and latino art through its collection, ground-breaking exhibitions, stimulating educational programs, and engaging cultural…
The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…
The apollo theater is a commissioner and presenter; catalyst for new artists, audiences, and creative workforce; and partner in the projection of the african american narrative and its role in the development of american and global culture.
Unidad is a community based organization that serves as a social service, educational and cultural affairs organization on behalf of the residents of Miami Beach in service of the welfare of the entire city, with a special emphasis on the…
Miami freedom project is committed to transforming south florida through outreach, movement building, and communication strategies. by the conclusion of 2024, we had coordinated and taken part in 35 events alongside more than 45 partners,…
To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.
To advance state policies that improve the economic mobility and quality of life for all floridians
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learningmiami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of. 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 22 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
1593 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. 1593 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Partners For Self Employment Inc ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE REBUILD FOUNDATION NFP ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIGA CONTRA EL CANCER INC (LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER INC) ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds SDG IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI-DADE INNOVATION AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds CATALYST MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO CENTER FOR CHOREOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI 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.
Open a dossier: Institute for Nonprofit News · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Peacock Foundation Inc · The Groundtruth Project Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Carrie Meek Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Hfsf Grants Management Inc · United Way Miami Inc · American Journalism Project Inc · Coral Gables Community 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 Miami Foundation Inc 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.
- Voices for Children Foundation Inc — 48% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Foster Care Review Inc — 33% of income from government
- Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba — 29% of income from government
- Juggerknot Theatre Corporation — 26% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Be Strong International Inc — 19% of income from government
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Mujeres Unidas En Justicia Educacion Y Refforma Inc — 16% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Living Arts Trust Inc Dba O Cinema — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Beacon College Prep Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The Fountainhead Residency Inc — 3% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bakehouse Art Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Historical Association of Southern Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- O Miami Inc — 2% 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
- Jackson Health Foundation 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
- Ann Storck Center Inc — 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
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chainless Change Inc — 0% of income from government
- Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ywca South Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gulliver Preparatory School 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.