About Miami Foundation
Building a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive by connecting people to knowledge, mobilizing people to action, and solving challenges through collaboration.
Focus Areas
HealthEconomic StabilityInclusion / Disability ServicesArts & CultureEnvironment / Climate ResilienceYouth & FamiliesRacial Equity / Social JusticeLGBTQ+ EquityDisaster ResilienceSafe CommunitiesLeadership DevelopmentFiscal Sponsorship
Who They Fund
students in need
About Miami Foundation
A $28,687,507 program-support grant to Perez Art Museum Miami stands out in The Miami Foundation Inc’s recent giving and signals the scale at which it backs Miami institutions. The foundation’s grantmaking also reaches into civic infrastructure and public-serving collaborations, with substantial support for Give Miami Day through Mightycause Charitable Foundation, plus multi-year funding for Young Musicians Unite and Partners for Self-employment Inc. That mix points to a community foundation that funds culture, nonprofit capacity, education access, and local problem-solving rather than a single program lane. Across recent awards, the foundation shows a strong preference for program support. It has also made scholarship funding, including a college education scholarship grant to Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc for student(s) in need. Its portfolio includes large grants to organizations such as New York Metropolitan Opera, Institute for Nonprofit News, and Miami-dade Innovation Authority Inc, alongside many Miami-based institutions. The pattern is broad but still clearly rooted in Greater Miami, with grants flowing to arts groups, health nonprofits, education partners, and organizations working on economic stability and community resilience.
What Miami Foundation Funds
Arts and culture are a major thread in the foundation’s recent grantmaking. It gave $28,687,507 to Perez Art Museum Miami for program support and $1,000,000 to New York Metropolitan Opera for program support, showing support for both local and national cultural institutions. In youth and education-related work, the foundation awarded $2,232,920 to Young Musicians Unite for program support and $1,062,500 to Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for scholarship. Those grants connect youth development with higher education access. Economic mobility and entrepreneurship also appear in the grant list. Partners for Self-employment Inc received $1,786,443 in 2023 and $1,517,789 in 2024 for program support, while Miami-dade Innovation Authority Inc received $980,000 in 2024 and $970,000 in 2025 for program support. The foundation also supported health-related infrastructure through Baptist Health South Florida Foundation and Baptist Health Foundation.
How Miami Foundation Gives
Typical grant size sits at $11,000 at the 25th percentile, $21,000 at the median, and $46,232 at the 75th percentile, indicating a large number of modest awards alongside some very large institutional grants. The recent list shows repeat recipients across multiple years, including Perez Art Museum Miami, Young Musicians Unite, Partners for Self-employment Inc, Miami-dade Innovation Authority Inc, and Institute for Nonprofit News. That suggests ongoing relationships rather than one-off gifts. The foundation is a mixed community foundation and funds individuals, and the grant record includes both program support and scholarship funding.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$117.3M
Total Assets
$565.2M
Total Revenue
$138.6M
Total Expenses
$144.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $11K and $46K, with a median of $21K.
25th Percentile
$11K
Median
$21K
75th Percentile
$46K
Geographic Reach
Regional49 states funded
About 49% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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