Florida · Nonprofit
MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC
MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,190 to it, the largest being THE JANET AND TONY GOLDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONINC ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $999k
What Miami Design Preservation League Inc does
Mission
Miami design preservation league, inc (mdpl) is a non-profit organization devoted to preserving, protecting, and promoting the cultural, social economic, environmental, and architectural integrity of miami beach and the surrounding areas. It was originally organized by barbara capitman in 1976 and is the oldest art deco society in the world. Mdpl provides cultural and educational programs to miami-dade county residents, surrounding counties, citizens of florida and to national and international visitors and tourists. The organization's programs are developed for the general public and have special appeal to those interested in art, design, architecture, history, preservation, urban and community planning and development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The annual art deco weekend festival, which traditionally takes place in january, is the organization's primary educational and cultural event which celebrates and promotes the history and architectural heritage of miami beach. The festival includes an array of educational activities, a lecture series, music and street entertainment, guided architectural tours, a classic car show, and vendors offering antiques, deco-inspired art, vintage merchandise, and crafts. This festival serves as the conduit to promote the organization's mission and showcase the collection of over 1,000 buildings of the same architectural style and educate the public on the importance of preservation and protection. Mdpl is the steward of the art deco architectural district, the first twentieth century historic commercial district in the country.
$351,781 spent33% of program spendingThe art deco gift shop specializes in period merchandising. Ninety percent of the merchandise is either original period items, reproductions or new and modern with a flavor of the past. It is important to maintain the shop with this type of merchandise in order to educate and promote the organization's mission to every single person that walks into the shop, as well as making sure they take home with them a reminder of the organization's mission and purpose in the form of mementos for themselves and to give as gifts.
$72,258 spent$440,831 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe art deco visitor center/welcome center,is the home base of the organization's architectural historic tours, both guided and self-guided (audio). The art deco visitor/welcome center is committed to providing a variety of services to the residents and visitors of the city. The center eductates visitors and residents about the miami beach art deco architectural historic district and fosters an appreciation for the community's heritage and style, which, in turn, facilitates the mdpl mission of perserving, promoting and protecting the cultural, social, economic, and architectual integrity of the historic district.
$288,504 spent$707,873 earned by the program27% of program spendingThe art deco museum teaches visitors about 3 major historic architectural design stlyes in miami beach. These styles are mediterranean revival, art deco and miami modern (mimo). Scale models of select buildings allow the visitor to have a closer look at the elements of these structures. The visitor will also learn about the development of the city of miami beach. The center houses a complete building datatbase of every structure within the historic art deco district. There are also design and architectural reference books, art deco era reference books, and a collection of films from the art deco era.
$365,377 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,077,920.
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 2022 to 2023, from $746k to $1.2M (+60%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 20% · 2020 24% · 2021 74% · 2022 37% · 2023 23% · 2024 19% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $5k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE 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
MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
48% 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 MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2020 58% · 2021 93% · 2022 59% · 2023 99% — 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
17% of MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
89% of MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE 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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC?
- MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,190 to it, the largest being THE JANET AND TONY GOLDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONINC ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $93,190 in grants to MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC?
- THE JANET AND TONY GOLDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONINC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIAMI DESIGN PRESERVATION LEAGUE 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