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The Shepard Broad Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
111
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.2MArts & Culture$848kPhilanthropy$763kReligion$693kHealth$555kHuman Services$467kInternational$440kCivil Rights$438kOther$0
02FY2025 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k64 grants · $233k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $805k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$6,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Ref Asst Ally Inc$25,000
AJC$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
Elev Acc Inc$20,000
Ref Asst Ally Inc$20,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $250 → 13%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $15k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $15k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $15k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $10k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $75k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $60k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $40k → 15%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIR: $6k → 15%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIR: $6k → 15%REFUGEE ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE INC: $35k → 15%REFUGEE ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE INC: $35k → 15%REFUGEE ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 15%RIDE ON L A: $1k → 14%MIAMI JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $1k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
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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 6% of The Shepard Broad Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Shepard Broad Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.1% 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 142 repeat orgs$889k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

142
93

Total granted

$6.8M
$669k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+43%

Still filing today

54%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $550k · revenue +51%
  • TL
    THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $483k · revenue +17%
  • BU
    BARRY UNIVERSITY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $315k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK LAW SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +63%
  • CB
    CHURCH BY THE SEA
    one grant, 2020 · $63k
  • JC
    Jwh Com Svcs So FL lnc
    one grant, 2024 · $54k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

148 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. 148 of the 269 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)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
145/148
Grantees still filing
115/148
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $203,900 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHOLOMRUTH K BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER: $202,680 · OtherRUTH K BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTERTOWN OF BAY HARBOR ISLANDS: $167,500 · OtherDURHAM-CHAPEL HILL JEWISH FEDERATION: $139,250 · OtherBRANCHES INC: $130,000 · OtherAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $142,500 · Other+127 more: $2,751,314 · Other+127 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $549,920 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $483,000 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMI…BARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $315,425 · EducationBARRY UNIVERSITY INCUCLA FOUNDATION: $198,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 · EducationMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $143,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · EducationRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $120,500 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $113,000 · EducationNEW YORK LAW SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $97,300 · Education+14 more: $315,000 · Education+14 moreGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $329,900 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $40,250 · Philanthropy+4 more: $27,500 · PhilanthropyTHE FOUNTAINHEAD RESIDENCY INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureBENNING ACADEMY OF MUSIC FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $57,499 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLos Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic: $30,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG PATRONESSES OF THE OPERA INC: $25,500 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $33,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ISRAEL FUND: $126,250 · InternationalLEO BAECK EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $123,924 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $70,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $61,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $22,000 · InternationalDKT INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $17,500 · International+3 more: $17,236 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesJAFCO Children's Foundation Inc: $25,250 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $18,000 · Human ServicesWECOUNT: $134,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $107,500 · Civil RightsElevated Access Inc: $15,000 · Civil RightsTHE DEBORAH PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$3,737,144Education$2,725,645Philanthropy$497,650Arts & Culture$480,999International$458,410Human Services$388,250Civil Rights$276,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $549,920 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $483,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $329,900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $315,425 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $198,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNTAINHEAD RESIDENCY INC: $155,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $143,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $142,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDURHAM-CHAPEL HILL JEWISH FEDERATION: $139,250 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWECOUNT: $134,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $126,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLEO BAECK EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $123,924 over 4y, 14% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA: $123,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $120,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $113,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $111,963 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $107,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LAW SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $97,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBENNING ACADEMY OF MUSIC FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 7y, 45% of budgetREFUGEE ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE INC: $80,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetICIVICS INC: $68,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $61,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $57,499 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC: $52,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetURBANPROMISE MIAMI INC: $51,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetGABLESTAGE INC: $45,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $40,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION: $38,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLos Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic: $30,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE INC: $27,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetOAKWOOD SCHOOL: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG PATRONESSES OF THE OPERA INC: $25,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetJAFCO Children's Foundation Inc: $25,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN HEBREW ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds BENNING ACADEMY OF MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
  • Who funds ICIVICS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Miami Jewish …The Batchelor Foundat…The Miami Foundation …Peacock Foundation IncUnited Way Miami IncCoral Gables Communit…The Kirk FoundationDunspaugh Dalton Foun…Mightycause Charitabl…Jewish Communal FundAlbert H and Jane D N…Lil & Yorke Doliner C…
Greater Miami Jewish Federation IncFL46.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 280%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
28get no government money at all
31report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Shepard Broad Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Shepard Broad 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 269 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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