[3] In the early 1950s, Kislak moved his family to Miami, where established one of the country's largest privately-held mortgage banks, originating and servicing loans nationally for over 40 years.

[11] In 2022, the Kislak Family Foundation donated $10 million to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. to create a gallery exploring the history of the early Americas.

[14] In 2023 an annual Kislak Family Foundation Prize to recognize an organization in the United States or abroad with an outsized impact on literacy relative to its size or years of operation was announced by the Library of Congress.

Sotheby’s departments are currently consigning many of works from the collection, including Richard Diebenkorn’s Berkeley Six, Raoul Dufy’s Les Martigues, Mary Cassatt’s Girl in a Hat with a Black Ribbon, Diego Giacometti’s Hommage à Böcklin console, William Bourne’s A Regiment for the Sea and Daniel Giraud Elliot’s Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats.

The Kislak Center at the University of Miami Libraries[17] was established with original source materials related to the history of the early Americas.

[21] The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida[22] received a donation from the Kislak Family Foundation to establish an artist/writer in residence program.

[23] The program funds a visiting artist or writer who teaches courses, conducts workshops, delivers lectures, and tutors students on the main Gainesville campus.