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The Shepard Broad Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k64 grants · $233k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $805k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Branches Inc | $50,000 |
| Loomis Inst | $50,000 |
| So FL PMG Inc | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Don Adv Char Giv | $35,000 |
| We Ct Inc | $30,000 |
| AJC | $25,000 |
| Ref Asst Ally Inc | $25,000 |
| Duke U | $25,000 |
| Zoo MIA Fdn Inc | $25,000 |
| Hillel the Fdn for Jwh Camp Life | $25,000 |
| Loomis Inst | $22,000 |
| Ruth K Br Bay Hbr K-8 Ctr | $20,660 |
| Wmns Fd Mia-Dade Inc | $20,000 |
| Barry U | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $384k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Shepard Broad Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
142 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 85 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $550k · revenue +51%- TLTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $483k · revenue +17%
- BUBARRY UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $315k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK LAW SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +63%
- CBCHURCH BY THE SEAone grant, 2020 · $63k
- JCJwh Com Svcs So FL lncone grant, 2024 · $54k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
148 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. 148 of the 269 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNTAINHEAD RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WECOUNT ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds LEO BAECK EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds BENNING ACADEMY OF MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ICIVICS 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: Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Peacock Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Albert H and Jane D Nahmad Foundation Inc · Lil & Yorke Doliner Charitable Fndtn 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 Shepard Broad 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.
- Refugee Assistance Alliance Inc — 92% of income from government
- Friends of the Underline Inc — 66% of income from government
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% 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
- The Fountainhead Residency Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southern Scholarship Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Zoo Miami Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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.
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