How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Florida?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Florida, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Miami Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Florida from out of state.

Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Florida?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Florida, $60M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Florida?

$688M reached 1,275 arts and culture organizations in Florida, from 2,901 funders. 61% came from funders also based in Florida.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Florida · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in Florida

Arts and culture funding in Florida is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade leads, and the money reaches 1,275 groups.

$688M

granted

1,275

organizations

61%

from in-state

The short version

2,901 funders gave $688M to 1,275 arts and culture organizations in Florida across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
61% of that came from funders also based in Florida; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in Florida is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $60M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade, at $47M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in Florida

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Florida, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$60M 2The Miami Foundation Inc$59M 3Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$26M 4Arison Arts Foundation$23M 5Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc$23M 6John S and James L Knight Foundation$22M 7The Peter Degeorge Charitable Trust$18M 8United Arts of Central Florida Inc$14M 9Corporation for Public Broadcasting$14M 10Adrienne Arsht Center Foundation Inc$12M

Arts and culture organizations in Florida that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,265 other arts and culture organizations$461M

Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade$47M

How to find arts and culture funders in Florida

1
Start with the funders already active in Florida
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Florida are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Miami Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
39% of arts and culture money in Florida comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Florida.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Florida?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Florida, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Miami Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Florida from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Florida?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Florida, $60M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Florida?: $688M reached 1,275 arts and culture organizations in Florida, from 2,901 funders. 61% came from funders also based in Florida.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.