· Private foundation
Wilder 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 $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH FLORIDA PBS | $50,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BRANCHES | $10,000 |
| CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP | $6,000 |
| BEAUX ARTS INC | $5,650 |
| FLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC | $1,000 |
| TWO HUNDREND CLUB OF GREATER MIAMI | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $100 |
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 (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC6× · 2018–2025 · $261k · revenue +49%- CPCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC8× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +44%
- FTFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC5× · 2018–2023 · $42k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Miamigraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +96%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2023 · $10k
- BHBAPTIST HEALTH S FLA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
The museum's mission is to celebrate, investigate and explore the civic arts of architecture and urban environmental design, including fostering an appreciation for the history, vision, and cultural landscape of coral gables; promoting…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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…
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The chamber is organized for the purpose of advancing the economic, professional, cultural, educational and civic welfare of miami beach and the area surrounding miami beach, florida. the chamber is committed to encouraging the growth of…
Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…
To promote visitation to florida by strengthening florida's share of the global travel market with the goal of maximizing the economic impact of travel and tourism to florida.
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The mission of the musuem of contemporary art is to contemporary art accesible to diverse audiences - especially underserved populations through the collection, preservation and exhibition of the best of contemporary art and its art…
To collect, preserve and make accessible to researchers and the general public artifacts and materials that help tell the story of the history of palm beach county, and to stimulate public appreciation for the rich history and cultural…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Camp Anuenue Corporation. 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 48 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 51 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
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 SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PATRONESSES OF THE OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds River Oaks Garden Club ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds OLD ISLAND RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Jose Milton Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Medina Family Foundation Inc · Tonkinson Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Wilder 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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