How much did THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$140MEducation$94MPhilanthropy$39MHuman Services$21MHealth$18MCommunity Improvement$17MEnvironment$10MYouth Development$9.4MCivil Rights$8.4MOther$114M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

amikidsbrandeisfsupenumbraalleviateconstructioncreative many

2019

belle isleshepherdumkcjhtuwomen's basketballdiplomacybme

2020

down syndromeorange bowlchildhood cancercasa ammaseraphic firecharretteflamenco dance

2021

scholarship studenttechtownmarkupradiator comicsparalysismalesfellows

2022

scholarship studentscadlibrary museumastarchivalvisual artbush presidential

2023

scadorange bowljoseph healthcalvingod'sagents renewalnews product

2024

participation democracycostaauroramiobrooklinejamesondetroits

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 1056 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k89 grants · $690k
$10k–50k520 grants · $11M
$50k–250k390 grants · $41M
$250k+57 grants · $65M

$31,831

Median grant

States reached

$565M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $13.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$402M · 1268 repeat orgs$69M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

1268 repeat relationships — 679 still active in FY2024, 589 since wound down; 248 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1268

484

Total granted

$402M

$42M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+30%

Still filing today

83%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

PA
PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI
8× · 2017–2024 · $53M · revenue +113% · 75% of their budget
MC
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION - GIVE MIAMI DAY
2× · 2023–2024 · $17M · revenue +303%
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +5%

Funded once

GS
GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $4.0M · revenue +387%
PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3.9M · revenue +49%
NC
NATIONAL COMPASSION FUND
one grant, 2021 · $2.1M · revenue -16% · 48% of their budget

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.

University of Miami

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Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education

Central Miami Intergroup

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Miami International Festival Inc

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Free Press

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…

Arts & Culture

Museum of Latin American Art

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…

Arts & Culture

Florida International University

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…

Science & Tech

Apollo Theater Foundation Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Unidad of Miami Beach Inc

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…

Human Services

Miami Freedom Project Inc

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,…

Civil Rights

University of Florida

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.

Education

Florida Policy Institute Inc

To advance state policies that improve the economic mobility and quality of life for all floridians

Public Benefit

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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%75/2,824

the rest of the field

15%

14,538/100,220

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.

05the grantee network

1585 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

208

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

642

Early backer (in before they grew)

1505/1585

Grantees still filing

1211/1585

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$139,910,127Education$94,066,802Other$142,145,123Philanthropy$39,168,920Human Services$21,176,688Health$17,951,023Community Improvement$17,081,411

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.

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.

Institute for Nonprofit NewsCA110.2× affinity84 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Institute for Nonprofit News · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · Peacock Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Hfsf Grants Management Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · American Journalism Project Inc · Baptist Health South Florida Inc · South Florida Sports Foundation 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

55get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DOWNTOWN DORAL CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841757078 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DOWNTOWN DORAL CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Miami Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Miami Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines