· Private foundation
Be the Magic Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HSU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| GULF COAST COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| PANHANDLE ANIMAL WELFARE | $6,080 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,194 |
| NAVARRE HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CHOCTAW HIGH SCHOOL BAND | $750 |
| EMERALD COAST MUSIC ALLIANCE | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HFHSU FAMILY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue -21%
- GCGULF COAST COUNCIL2× · 2023–2024 · $40k
- PAPANHANDLE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIE3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- HFHSU FAMILY EDUCATIONALone grant, 2022 · $22k
- FSFRESH START FOR CHILDREN INone grant, 2022 · $6k
- OSOKALOOSA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide elementary educational services to lake county, florida as a charter school.
To operate a charter school in hernando county.
North charter public school is a public charter high school. the program re-engages disconneted students through an innovative curriculum that intergrates technology with academics and provides the opportunity to earn a high school…
To operate a charter school in hernando county.
The foundation is the nexus of palm beach county's public schools, the private sector, and the community. it facilitates student achievement by supporting high quality public education through partnership, grants, events and public…
To provide a quality ecological based educational program through a rigorous and relevant hands-on curriculum for students.
To operate a public charter in orange county, florida
As a Charter School to provide academic excellence for all students through experience & self-discovery to develop motivated, independently thinking individuals who demonstrate exemplary character, social confidence & community service
It is the mission of the apalachicola bay charter school that each student will reach his or her academic and social potential.
To provide outstanding education services to kindergarten through eighth grade students of west borward county, florida as a charter school.
To operate a charter school and educate children. students graduate from eagle well prepared to become inspirations to their families, leaders in their communities, and successes in their workplace.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Okaloosa Public Schools Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HSU FAMILY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIE ↗
- Who funds DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OKALOOSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST WILDLIFE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EXCHANGE CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIZA JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gulf Power Foundationinc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Be the Magic Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Liza Jackson Preparatory School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Destin High School Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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