Florida · Nonprofit
Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc
Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,126 to it, the largest being RYDER SYSTEM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $157k
- Net assets
- $499k
What Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Down Syndrome Association of Miami is to educate the Miami-Dade community about Down Syndrome and to promote positive acceptance of individuals living with Down Syndrome. We strive to illustrate that living, learning, and working with individuals with Down Syndrome is a natural part of the daily lives of every person in our community. We celebrate each life that is born with Down Syndrome.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We host mostly complimentary age-appropriate activities for children and teens with Down Syndrome designed to stimulate the mind and activate the body and allow parents an opportunity to network. Programs include: swimming, social pragmatic speech therapy groups, language enrichment, toddler playtime, soccer, and hippotherapy.
$120,274 spentof which $12,200 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,274.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $292k to $369k (+26%).
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.
98% of Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $21k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Down Syndrome Association 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
Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 64% · 2019 64% · 2020 91% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
29% of Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Down Syndrome Association 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc?
- Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,126 to it, the largest being RYDER SYSTEM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $157,126 in grants to Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Down Syndrome Association of Miami Inc?
- RYDER SYSTEM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Down Syndrome Association 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 11 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