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ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC

ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,609 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($40,519). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$438k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$51k
Net assets
$513k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Arts & Business Council of Miami Inc does

Mission

The arts & business council of miami has been empowering the creative ecosystem for 40+ years with curated innovations and tailored programming that leverages and strengthen 500+ arts organizations and thousands of artists, arts professionals and creative entrepreneurs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The arts & business council leads the movement to build a sustainable cultural ecosystem through advancing high-impact partnerships, outreach and networking opportunities between businesses, entrepreneurs and the arts. For over 35 years, the arts & business council has played a leading role developing programs that assist over 500 arts groups through executive consultancies, leadership training, audience development, workshops, forums, curated outreach and networking. Program service accomplishments: hospitality to showcase arts and hospitality partnerships.

    $553,649 spent$49,500 earned by the program
    87% of program spending

  2. Volunteer lawyers for the arts serves artists and creatives with ongoing pro-bono services. Patent probono fl provides legal consultations and pro-bono services for low income inventors, artists and entrepreneurs in florida & puerto rico. In 2023-2024 our legal services included matching low income artists and inventors with attorneys for pro bono services in conjunction with dade legal aid. Program service accomplishments: consultations. We will continue to partner with the united states patent & trade office for patent pro bono fl.

    $80,723 spent
    13% of program spending

  3. Miami arts marketing project (mamp) is a comprehensive program to build arts audiences with increased media, training curated for arts marketing and visibility and outreach. Mamp provides high quality training to help arts groups build new partnerships and increase audiences.

    $2,811 spent$5,344 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $637,183.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($306k) Expenses 100 ($326k) Net assets 100 ($483k)2018 Revenue 95 ($289k) Expenses 123 ($401k) Net assets 84 ($406k)2019 Revenue 122 ($374k) Expenses 144 ($469k) Net assets 64 ($311k)2020 Revenue 204 ($624k) Expenses 185 ($605k) Net assets 68 ($330k)2021 Revenue 124 ($379k) Expenses 84 ($273k) Net assets 121 ($585k)2023 Revenue 250 ($765k) Expenses 217 ($708k) Net assets 129 ($625k)2024 Revenue 238 ($727k) Expenses 216 ($703k) Net assets 134 ($649k)2025 Revenue 143 ($438k) Expenses 176 ($574k) Net assets 106 ($513k)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (176)Net assets (106)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $362k to $585k (+62%).

$483k
$406k
$311k
$362k
$585k
$625k
$649k
$513k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 39% · 2018 38% · 2019 46% · 2020 31% · 2021 73% · 2023 30% · 2024 89% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$21k
’17
−$112k
’18
−$94k
’19
$19k
’20
$106k
’21
$58k
’23
$24k
’24
−$136k
’25
11
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed1414171715121717
Joined·+1+6+2+0·+7+2
No longer listed·1322·22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $19.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

80%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−31% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Creative City Collaborative of Delray Beach Inc82%Artesmiami Inc81%Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Inc81%Tampa Bay Business Coalition for the Arts Inc80%Business for the Arts of Broward Inc80%Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce79%Arts for Learningmiami Inc79%Funding Arts Broward Inc79%

Nationally

Creative City Collaborative of Delray Beach Inc82%Artesmiami Inc81%Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Inc81%Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc80%The Arts Council Inc80%Tampa Bay Business Coalition for the Arts Inc80%Business for the Arts of Broward Inc80%Arts Business Collaborative80%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC?
ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,609 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($40,519). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,609 in grants to ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC?
JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,519 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF MIAMI INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing