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Patricia & Emanuel Papper Foundation Inc

Miami, FL · EIN 59-2500044. Reported 47 grants totalling $666,810 to 20 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$666,810granted, 2020-2024
20recipients, as named on its returns
69%of grantees funded again the next year
$100,380assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Patricia & Emanuel Papper Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,300 and $14,250; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $55,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
13 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Perez Art Museum MiamiMiami, FL$136,250332022
The New World SymphonyMiami Beach, FL$125,000552024
Perez Art Museum MiamiMiami, FM$88,000222024
National Public RadioWashington, DC$50,000112024
United Way of Dade CountyMiami, FL$50,000552024
NPR FoundationWashingotn, DC$45,000112023
Greater Miami Jewish FederationMiami, FL$41,250442024
National Public RadioNew York, NY$35,000112020
American Jewish CommitteeMiami, FL$15,000332024
Friends of WlrnMiami, FL$14,500552024
American Jewish CommiteeMiami, FL$10,000222021
Grinnell CollegeGrinnell, IA$10,000222024
Grinnell CollegeGrinnell, LA$10,000112021
New York Public RadioNew York, NY$9,900552024
Greater Miami Jewish RederationMiami, FL$8,250112023
Temple Israel of Greater MiamiMiami, FL$6,660222021
GablestageCoral Gables, FL$5,000112021
Human Rights WatchNew York, NY$5,000112020
Funding Arts NetworkMiami, FL$1,000112020
Refugee Assistance AllianceCoral Gables, FM$1,000112020

11 of 20 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 69%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 23 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
9 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Education
5 grants
Civil Rights
3 grants
International Affairs
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202012$132,300$5,000
202110$148,110$6,750
20227$102,000$10,000
20239$136,200$5,000
20249$148,200$8,250

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

62% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Florida
$413K
District of Columbia
$95K
Fm
$89K
New York
$50K
Iowa
$10K
Louisiana
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust7 shared recipientsThe Miami Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsUnited Way Miami Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Patricia & Emanuel Papper Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 1 Grove Isle Drive Suite 1501, Miami, FL, 33133. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 59-2500044 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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