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The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc
Our mission at the community foundation for ocala/marion county is to enhance the quality of life for all residents of our community by fostering philanthropy and stewarding charitable resources.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCALA 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 57 grants below total $2,189,213 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,520,673 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $331,460 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 $10k9 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $755k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $269k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $268,995 |
| MONASTIC FAITH HEALING MINISTRIES PRIORY #180 | $229,747 |
| EMPOWERED OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $134,000 |
| WINGS OF FAITH FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF GOD | $101,000 |
| EMPOWERED OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $87,588 |
| INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC | $86,386 |
| MARION COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC DBA KIMBERLY'S CENTER FOR CHI | $78,300 |
| FLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC | $73,381 |
| FRIENDS OF MARION COUNTY VETERANS PARK INC | $70,500 |
| HONORING THE FATHER MINISTRIES INC | $62,804 |
| REILLY ARTS CENTER | $62,750 |
| ST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY | $62,000 |
| ST JOHN LUTERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL OF OCALA FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| XTREME SOULUTIONS INC | $44,162 |
| ESTELLA BYRD WHITMAN WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC | $43,355 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 80% of The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 20% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 23 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k 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
- EOEmpowered of Central Florida Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $355k · revenue +49% · 36% of their budget
- WCWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +6%
- TBThe Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- ARADVOCACY RESOURCE CENTER MARIONINC2× · 2020–2021 · $410k · revenue +15%
- OCOCALA CIVIC THEATRE INCone grant, 2020 · $314k · revenue +22% · 31% of their budget
- HOHEART OF FLORIDA HEALTH CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $312k · revenue +166%
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.
The mission is to assist the homeless and near-homeless in Marion County, Florida. The organization strives to maximize resources to prevent homelessness and eliminate gaps in services
The mission of the Marion County Humane Society is to provide shelter for abandoned, abused, neglected and home-less animals to work with our rescued animals until we can find forever loving homes for them and to work within the community…
The goal of the Marion County Child Advocacy Center is to provide a safe place for children who are victims of sexual and physical abuse to have their stories clearly heard and begin the healing process. The Marion County Child Advocacy…
In partnership with god, manatee county habitat develops resources, educates, and mobilizes people to work alongside families in need, rehabilitating existing homes and building sustainable, affordable homes, thereby improving the quality…
To promote economic mobility by helping people living in poverty achieve self-sufficiency.
The mission of the samaritan health and wellness center, inc. is to reclaim the healing ministry of jesus christ by providing affordable, professional primary health care and counseling for the working uninsured and under insured in lee…
Provide guardian and guardianship services to indigent and developmentally disabled citizens with no family or friends to make medical or financial decisions for them in citrus, hernando, lake, sumter and marion counties.
To increase net income of farmers and ranchers and to improve the quality of rural life and work for the betterment of agriculture.
To provide mental health services, support, and information to the members of the central florida community.
Through our volunteers, casa of marion county inc. advocates for abused and neglected children who need safe and permanent homes.
Mccoy is investing in youth today, improving conditions tomorrow. at the core of our approach are four strategic roles: advocate, resource, capacity builder, and convener. mccoy provides central indiana with the opportunity to support all…
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Florida Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ora Clubhouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
85 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. 85 of the 109 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 ADVOCACY RESOURCE CENTER MARIONINC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Empowered of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARION SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds MUNROE REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Marion County Children's Avocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HELP AGENCY OF THE FOREST INC ↗
- Who funds Honoring The Father Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Marion County Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Marion County Veterans Park Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds XTREME SOULUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX PROGRAMS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ESTELLA BYRD WHITMAN WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROJECT STABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARION CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF CHANGE ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds HIS HOUSE FOR HER INC ↗
- Who funds ARNETTE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MARION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS LIFE CENTER & COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HANDS ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Marion County 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: United Way of Marion County Inc · Clay Electric Foundation Inc · Palmer Foundation Inc · Enchanted Backpack · Munroe Regional Health System Inc · Browder Family Foundation · The Colen Foundation Inc · The Lilac Foundation Corporation · The DeLuca Family Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc · Mantz Foundation · Lutheran Services Florida Inc
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 The Community Foundation for Ocala 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.
- Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Inc — 23% of income from government
- Marion County Children's Alliance Inc — 13% of income from government
- Heart of Florida Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Marion Cultural Alliance Inc — 9% of income from government
- Phoenix Programs of Florida Inc — 8% of income from government
- Arnette House Inc — 7% of income from government
- America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Marion County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Pearl Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Livestock Assn — 0% of income from government
- Humane Society of Marion County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wear Gloves Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Marion Senior Services 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.