· Private foundation
Be the Magic Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Be the Magic Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Be the Magic Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Liza Jackson Preparatory School Inc: 1% of income from government
- Destin High School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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