Florida · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC
FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC (Florida) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,742,707 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,136,250). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $9.7M
What Friends of the Underline Inc does
Mission
Friends of the underline's vision is to transform the underutilized land in the urban core below miami's metrorail into a 10-mile neighborhood park, urban trail, and living art destination to create a safer, healthier, more connected, mobile, and engaged community. The underline will be open to all and serve all with amenities and art that connect people to place and each other.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The underline is a 10-mile linear park, urban trail and transportation corridor beneath miamis metrorail system, running from brickell to dadeland. Friends of the underline advances that vision through fundraising, public programming, cultural and educational initiatives, community partnerships, and economic and workforce development. . Reach and use of the corridor. This year, 2.7 million visitors walked, ran,rolled, biked, and commuted on the underline. The corridor now serves as both a public gathering space and a daily transportation route, giving residents a safe, direct connection to transit and to neighborhoods across miami-dade county. Public programming and events. The underline hosted 209 public and private events with 49,727 total attendees. 86% of programming was free and open to the public, which keeps the corridor accessible to residents of every income level. Highlights included the underlines first 5k race, a miami music week pop-up, the lululemon global day of running with more than 600 attendees, a new world symphony pop-up performance, the temple of milagros art activation, and inter brazil day with more than 5,000 participants. Community partners produced 40 of…
$3,591,554 spentof which $3,071,811 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,591,554.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.4M to $8.2M (+139%).
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.
94% of FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
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.
Chief executive
Eulois Cleckley
CEO
Board chair
Rodolfo Prio Touzet
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $43k → $957k.
12 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. 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
FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 60% · 2019 62% · 2020 51% · 2021 33% · 2022 93% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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
44% of FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
60% of FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.9M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.1M
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE 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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Underline Managament Organizati · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE 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 FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC (Florida) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,742,707 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,136,250). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $9,742,707 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,136,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE 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.
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 51 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