Funding search · EIN 650350357 · Miami, FL

The Miami Foundation

Name: The Miami Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

2,835
grants reported: $230.0M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

scholarship college education student scholarships

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Miami-Dade arts and museums, led by Perez Art Museum Miami
Give Miami Day regranting to hundreds of local nonprofits
Nonprofit local news outlets and journalism infrastructure nationally
Regrants to peer community foundations in other US cities
Miami-Dade human services, health access, and small-business support
Named scholarships at Penn, University of Miami, and FIU

Typical grant

The median grant is $25,000 and the middle half runs $13,136 to $63,400, so most checks are modest operating or project sums to Miami-Dade nonprofits. The very large awards are a different animal: $28.7M to Perez Art Museum Miami, $8.9M to the Give Miami Day platform, and seven-figure sums to journalism intermediaries and scholarship endowments at universities. With 2,835 grants to 1,726 recipients over three years, repeat giving is the norm, much of it recurring annual support through the same donor funds.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“PROGRAM SUPPORT”
“SCHOLARSHIP”
“GIVE MIAMI DAY”
“IMPACT JOURNALISM FUND”

Positioning adjacent work

Tie adjacent work to local news sustainability: they fund Institute for Nonprofit News, Spotlight PA, Cityside, Tiny News Collective.
Ask $25,000 to $75,000 for a first project; six figures goes to established intermediaries and regrantors.
For tech or AI work, mirror their Data & Society, Partnership on AI, and Knight First Amendment grants.
Lead with Miami-Dade residents served, or with a multi-city footprint including Akron, Macon, San Jose, Detroit.

Worth knowing: This is a community foundation moving donor-advised and intermediary money, not a program with an open door: the three largest grants alone are roughly 17 percent of all dollars, and much of the non-Florida giving is journalism and peer-community-foundation regranting that reflects a small number of major fund sponsors. Florida takes 1,263 of 2,835 grants, so if your work has no Miami-Dade tie, the realistic path is the local news and civic information cluster.

3 grants matching “environmental education” · $55,000

$15,000
North American Association for Environmental Education · Washington, DC · 2024
Program support
$15,000
North American Association for Environmental Education · Washington, DC · 2023
Program support
$25,000
North American Association for Environmental Education · Washington, DC · 2022
Program support

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Perez Art Museum Miami2 grants · $30.1M
Mightycause Charitable Foundation - Give Miami Day2 grants · $17.1M
Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County1 grant · $11.4M
Partners for Self-Employment3 grants · $4.0M
Young Musicians Unite3 grants · $3.9M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania3 grants · $2.4M
Sdg Impact Fund1 grant · $2.0M
Miami-Dade Innovation Authority2 grants · $1.9M
Institute for Nonprofit News3 grants · $1.9M
The Wolfsonian - Fiu2 grants · $1.8M

Giving over time

$55.5M

2022

$57.2M

2023

$117.3M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 2,835 grants.

$28.7M
Perez Art Museum Miami · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$11.4M
Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$8.9M
Mightycause Charitable Foundation - Give Miami Day · Marianna, FL · 2024
Program support
$8.2M
Mightycause Charitable Foundation - Give Miami Day · Marianna, FL · 2023
Program support
$2.2M
Young Musicians Unite · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$2.0M
Sdg Impact Fund · Cartersville, GA · 2023
Program support
$1.8M
Partners for Self-Employment · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$1.5M
Partners for Self-Employment · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$1.5M
Perez Art Museum Miami · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$1.2M
Young Musicians Unite · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$1.1M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Scholarship
$1.0M
Institute for Nonprofit News · Beverly Hills, CA · 2024
Program support
$1.0M
New York Metropolitan Opera · New York, NY · 2024
Program support
$980,000
Miami-Dade Innovation Authority · Coral Gables, FL · 2023
Program support
$970,000
Miami-Dade Innovation Authority · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$921,072
Baptist Health South Florida Foundation · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$899,501
The Wolfsonian - Fiu · Miami Beach, FL · 2024
Program support
$853,505
The Wolfsonian - Fiu · Miami Beach, FL · 2023
Program support
$800,000
Tampa Museum of Art · Tampa, FL · 2024
Program support
$771,000
Baptist Health Foundation · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$761,600
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Program support
$760,361
Charles H Wright Museum of African American History · Detroit, MI · 2022
Program support
$750,000
Baptist Health South Florida Foundation · Coral Gables, FL · 2022
College education scholarship(s) for student(s) in need
$726,817
Partners for Self-Employment · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$717,075
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust · Purchase, NY · 2022
Program support
$662,417
U3 Advisors · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Program support
$631,521
Institute for Nonprofit News · Beverly Hills, CA · 2023
Program support
$629,000
New World Symphony · Miami Beach, FL · 2024
Program support
$611,988
Greater Miami Jewish Federation · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$609,239
Florida International University Foundation · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$602,976
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$600,019
News Product Alliance Corporation · Dover, DE · 2023
Program support
$598,658
Florida Achievement Support Trust · Coral Gables, FL · 2024
Program support
$594,260
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2022
Program support
$589,902
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$582,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Scholarships
$562,488
Achieve Miami · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$557,090
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$543,600
Jmj Clutch Enterprises Llc · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$540,200
Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral · Pompano Beach, FL · 2024
Program support
$540,000
Fairmount Park Conservancy · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Program support
$540,000
Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition · Akron, OH · 2022
Program support
$520,928
Tiny News Collective · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Program support
$500,000
Center for Technology and Civic Life · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program support
$500,000
Climate Summit Miami Beach Host Committee · Miami Beach, FL · 2024
Program support
$500,000
Climate Summit Miami Beach Host Committee · Miami Beach, FL · 2023
Program support
$500,000
City of Miami Beach · Miami Beach, FL · 2022
College education scholarship(s) for student(s) in need
$493,865
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2023
Program support
$487,153
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (Moca) · North Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$478,750
Young Musicians Unite · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$459,610
The Salt Lake Tribune · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Program support
$455,000
Blue Grass Community Foundation · Lexington, KY · 2024
Program support
$450,382
Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography · Akron, OH · 2023
Program support
$450,000
Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Shreveport, LA · 2024
Program support
$450,000
The Post and Courier · Charleston, SC · 2024
Program support
$444,658
University of Miami · Miami, FL · 2024
Scholarship
$433,325
Temple Beth Am · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$430,660
Greater Miami Jewish Federation · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$400,000
Jackson Health Foundation · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$400,000
Liga Contra El Cancer Incleague Against Cancer · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$391,800
Tulane University · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Program support
$367,520
Ce12 Foundation · Darien, CT · 2024
Program support
$365,000
Automattic · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Program support
$360,844
Impactassets · Bethesda, MD · 2024
Program support
$357,875
Branches · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$354,127
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Washington, DC · 2024
Program support
$350,073
Asu Foundation · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Program support
$350,000
Aspiration · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Program support
$350,000
Environmental Initiative · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Program support
$350,000
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy · San Jose, CA · 2024
Program support
$350,000
Macon Bibb County Urban Development Authority · Macon, GA · 2024
Program support
$340,000
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation · Detroit, MI · 2022
College education scholarship(s) for student(s) in need
$338,000
Harvard University · Boston, MA · 2024
Program support
$336,420
McClatchy Journalism Institute · Sacramento, CA · 2023
Program support
$335,000
Locust Projects · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$333,333
The Rebuild Foundation Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program support
$332,934
Spotlight Pa · Harrisburg, PA · 2024
Program support
$332,656
Florida International University Foundation · Miami, FL · 2024
Scholarship
$327,012
Arts for Learning Miami · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$317,019
Cityside Journalism Initiative · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Program support
$300,000
North Carolina Longform Magazine · Durham, NC · 2024
Program support
$300,000
Sunlight Research Center · New York, NY · 2024
Program support
$300,000
Wake Forest University · Winstonsalem, NC · 2024
Program support
$300,000
Global Empowerment Mission · Doral, FL · 2022
Program support
$295,111
The Detroit Institute of Arts · Detroit, MI · 2023
Program support
$283,400
Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba · Coral Gables, FL · 2023
Program support
$280,500
Ransom Everglades School · Coconut Grove, FL · 2023
Program support
$279,582
Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography · Akron, OH · 2024
Program support
$278,850
Guitars Over Guns Operation · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$276,084
Miami New Drama · Miami Beach, FL · 2024
Program support
$275,525
Akron Art Museum · Akron, OH · 2024
Program support
$269,272
Miami Music Project · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$267,951
Touching Miami With Love Ministries · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$267,500
Catalyst Miami · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$266,602
Adrienne Arsht Center Trust · Miami, FL · 2022
Program support
$262,562
Akron Art Museum · Akron, OH · 2023
Program support
$261,500
Arts for Learning · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$260,000
Liga Contra El Cancer Incleague Against Cancer · Miami, FL · 2024
Program support
$260,000
Liga Contra El Cancer Incleague Against Cancer · Miami, FL · 2023
Program support
$256,000
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky · Hazard, KY · 2024
Program support

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.