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Early Learning Coalition of Marion County Inc

To provide leadership and foster partnerships to optimize a quality early learning environment for our children through child care, voluntary pre-kindergarten and parent education.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MARION COUNTY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 64 grants below total $1,160,686 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,720,718 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $560,032 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $182k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $884k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
$12,312
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLESSED TRINITY ANGELS IN ARMS$94,514
CREATIVE BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL$46,978
ABC ACADEMY CHILD CARE AND LEARNING$41,814
BELLEVIEW PLAYLAND AND LEARNING CEN$37,829
FIRST ASSEMBLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AND$37,686
CENTER FOR HOLISTIC LEARNING & DEVE$36,516
ALL STARS LEARNING ACADEMY LLC$35,372
FUTURE STARS PRESCHOOL ACADEMY$34,422
KIDS KAMPUS OF CALA HILLS INC$33,964
ABC ACADEMY OF BELLEVIEW$32,031
KIDS ACADEMY INC$27,413
PLAY ACADEMY$26,731
WEST FAMILY LEARNING CENTER II INC$26,699
FANTASTIKIDS ACADEMY 3 LLC$26,348
ALPHABET LAND LEARNING CENTER INC$25,770
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $135k → 14%HEALTHY START OF NORTH CENTRAL FLOR: $28k → 19%HEALTHY START OF NORTH CENTRAL: $28k → 19%HEALTHY START OF NORTH CENTRAL: $28k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 107 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

107 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
23

Total granted

$24M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+164%

Still filing today

7%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • NB
    NEW BEGINNING EDUCATION CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $521k · revenue +34% · 34% of their budget
  • HH
    HAPPY HEARTS KINDERGARTEN INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $351k · revenue +64% · 40% of their budget
  • OF
    OCALA FIRST PRESCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $277k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • PA
    PRECIOUS ANGELS LEARNING ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $293k
  • EC
    EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue -30%
  • NI
    NANA'S INFANTS AND CHILDREN LEARNIN
    one grant, 2023 · $123k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Innovation Montessori Ocoee Inc

To operate a public charter in orange county, florida

Education
2
Sonshine Day Preschool Inc

Sonshine day preschools mission is to partner with the home and church to provide a loving, secure christian environment where dedicated staff care for, nuture, and teach young children to know, honor, and serve god.

3
Beggining Child Care Center

Child care services and child preschool instruction

Education
4
Gulf Coast Elementary School Inc

To operate a charter school in hernando county.

5
The Children's Center

To provide an atmosphere that will enhance social, emotional, physical and intellectual skills for children in a safe and happy environment.

Human Services
6
Life Christian Academy Inc

Life christian academy provides christian-based care and education for children ages 6 weeks to 5th grade. it is a private, christian preschool and school.

Education
7
Covered By Grace Stem Christian Academy

Stem is organized to provide science technology, engineering and math educational learning preschool to children in a christian environment.

Education
8
Live Oak Preschool

Live Oak is a preschool dedicated to building a superior foundation for lifelong learning in a nurturing, loving surrounding.

Education
9
Lancaster Preschool

Lancaster preschool believes that the preschool is an extension of the home environment where children can learn new skills, interact with teachers and peers, and experience hands-on learning opportunities through developmentally…

Education
10
Children's Center

Provide childcare services

Human Services
11
Big-Little School

Operation of a preschool

Education
12
Essex Child Center

Provide affordable preschool and daycare services to the community

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Episcopal Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sister 2 Sister Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 131 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+123 more — $23,721,732 · Other+123 moreNEW BEGINNING EDUCATION CENTER INC — $521,459 · EducationHAPPY HEARTS KINDERGARTEN INC — $351,069 · EducationOCALA FIRST PRESCHOOL INC — $277,426 · EducationGRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF OCALA FLORIDA INC — $271,912 · Education+1 more — $37,380 · EducationEPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $134,810 · Human ServicesHealthy Start of North Central Florida — $84,733 · Human ServicesSISTER 2 SISTER INC — $43,440 · Philanthropy
Other$23,721,732Education$1,459,246Human Services$219,543Philanthropy$43,440

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW BEGINNING EDUCATION CENTER INC — $521,459 over 5y, 34% of budgetHAPPY HEARTS KINDERGARTEN INC — $351,069 over 4y, 40% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc — $325,512 over 2y, 26% of budgetOCALA FIRST PRESCHOOL INC — $277,426 over 4y, 21% of budgetGRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF OCALA FLORIDA INC — $271,912 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetEPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $134,810 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealthy Start of North Central Florida — $84,733 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSISTER 2 SISTER INC — $43,440 over 1y, 66% of budgetMARION CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $37,380 over 2y, 1.4% of budget
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 NEW BEGINNING EDUCATION CENTER INC
  • Who funds HAPPY HEARTS KINDERGARTEN INC
  • Who funds The Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc
  • Who funds OCALA FIRST PRESCHOOL 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.

The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County IncFL13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County 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 Early Learning Coalition of Marion County 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 42%
  • Episcopal Children's Services Inc42% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 131 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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