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Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc

Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,238,546 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FUND ($855,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.2M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$615k
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

Develop a coalition of citizens, public officials and other interested parties to formulate and implement plans for improving education in Mobile County.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. FSCS - The Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program, encourages coordination of educational, developmental, family, health, and other services through partnerships between(1)public elementary and secondary schools and(2) community-based organizations and public or private entities.

    $3,602,120 spent
    68% of program spending
  2. MAYES - A workforce training and work-based learning program which was funded by the Alabama Legislature and the project has a memorandum of agreement between the Organization and Bishop State Community College.

    $621,451 spent
    12% of program spending
  3. FPC - Floretta P. Carson Visual Performing Arts - the Organization provides administrative services for the the first performing visual arts charter school in the State of Alabama.

    $252,150 spent
    5% of program spending
  4. ACCEL - Accelaration Day and Evening Academy (ACCEL) is Alabamas first tuition-free public charter school, serves high school students in grades 9-12 from Mobile, Baldwin, and Washington Counties. It provides a challenging college preparatory curriculum, individualized instruction, small class sizes, and engaging use of technology in a safe, supportive environment to ensure students graduate college and career ready. Through ACCEL, students can graduate more quickly or catch up if they have fallen behind or dropped out.

    $230,611 spent
    4% of program spending
  5. Ahec

    $227,819 spent
    4% of program spending
  6. SWAPTE Program - The Organization through its Graduate Ready Career Development Program, in partnering with MAEF Public Charter Schools, Inc., will provide career development services and paid internships to WIOA eligible students enrolled at ACCEL Day and Evening Academy (ACCEL). ACCEL is Alabamas first public charter high school serving students who are on-track to graduation, have dropped out or considering dropping out because they are behind or because they have adult responsibilities that make attending school in the daytime difficult. Career development and planning will lead to paid internships that provide students work-based experiences for eight hours per week over 10 weeks. Students will be provided intensive internship preparation services including career exploration and workplace skills training before and during the internship experience. Students will be placed in internships based upon their career interests.

    $163,117 spent
    3% of program spending
  7. BTG - This program serves students in grades K-5. Students meet Monday through Thursday and participate in academic intervention. Following intervention, students particpate in STEM, art, sports and homework help.

    $135,299 spent
    3% of program spending
  8. Aaahs

    $38,801 spent
    1% of program spending
  9. Ignite

    $13,138 spent
    0% of program spending
  10. STEM - This program is a workforce and economic development iniative to bring relevance to the K-12 math and science curriculum. The program will inspire, engage, and prepare students to take the course work needed to support the growing demand for highly skilled and technology prepared workers for the aerospace, shipbuilding, steel, manufacturing and other industries located, and locating in our area.

  11. 80/20 - For Mobile to realize 75,000 degrees/credentials within our communities by 2030, we must implement and facilitate pathways to credentialing, transfer and completion for all students. The impact strategies of such pathways must provide approaches guided by objectives that result in increased completion rates for 18-24 year old students, with a focus on low-income and African - American students. There must be a seamless multi tiered system of supports for college students at every transition phase to ensure they stay on track to graduate.

  12. Student Achievement - The Organization brings outside resources into local schools and communities to focus on areas like student achievement, professional development for teachers and principals, parental involement and public education. The Organization uses proven instructional models to promote high standards and high achievement for every child.

  13. Swapte

  14. Fpcc

The 14 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,284,506.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($924k) Expenses 100 ($775k) Net assets 100 ($452k)2021 Revenue 65 ($597k) Expenses 90 ($700k) Net assets 77 ($349k)2022 Revenue 50 ($461k) Expenses 75 ($584k) Net assets 50 ($226k)2023 Revenue 198 ($1.8M) Expenses 234 ($1.8M) Net assets 55 ($248k)2024 Revenue 456 ($4.2M) Expenses 535 ($4.1M) Net assets 69 ($310k)2025 Revenue 669 ($6.2M) Expenses 759 ($5.9M) Net assets 136 ($615k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (669)Expenses (759)Net assets (136)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $306k to $1.1M (+245%).

$666k
$409k
$306k
$1.1M
$1.7M
$1.8M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 24% · 2021 38% · 2022 26% · 2023 78% · 2024 71% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (72% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 636 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$149k
’20
−$104k
’21
−$123k
’22
$22k
’23
$62k
’24
$305k
’25
1.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Dr Jeremiah Newell

CEO

Board chair

Rob McGinley

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed141414101513
Joined·+0+0+4+7+1
No longer listed·00823
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $300k → $280k.

1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc.

38%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 43% · 2019 50% · 2020 44% · 2021 74% · 2022 83% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

30% of Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 5 states in all.

IN
CA
MD
DC
AL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)46% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.7M on record.

Federal$14.7M
grants $14.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$14.7M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Alabama

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc?
Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,238,546 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FUND ($855,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,238,546 in grants to Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc?
NEW SCHOOLS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $855,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing