Florida · Nonprofit
MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,355,677 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($1,684,629). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Monroe County Education Foundation Inc does
Mission
To support activities that are directed toward aiding, supplementing, improving, enhancing and complementing the activities of the public school system and provide scholarships for monroe county students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Project lead the way was discontinued in 2024 due to exhausted funding.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The monroe county education foundation (mcef), through its flagship program take stock in children (tsic), provides funding, summer educational enhancement opportunities, and mentorship to help monroe county students achieve their potential. Mcef provides access to higher education for florida students who are at risk of not attending college or university. Through the program, mcef matches at risk students with mentors, guides students in making smart career choices, and guarantees resources so that monroe county students may complete a college degree or certificate. Tsic monroe grants college scholarships upon high school graduation to qualified 6th-12th grade student-recipients of income eligible families residing in the county. (continued on schedule o.)tsic monroe is an award-winning model in the state of florida, a concerted endeavor consisting of approximately 370 dedicated volunteer mentors and students with a network of individual donors, corporate sponsors and a hardworking staff. Mcef recognized the accomplishments and celebrated the graduation of 81 tsic scholars in may 2025 during a live outdoor ceremony. A total of 1,165 students from monroe county have received…
$1,384,125 spentof which $1,172,042 as grants87% of program spendingExperiment in international living (eil), monroe county is a companion program that's been sponsored by mcef since 2006. Area high-school students benefit from the experience of living abroad with families for 3 to 5 weeks during the summer. A variety of program themes are designed to instill a deeper cultural awareness, nurture relationships through the development of language skills, and encourage many other hands-on activities. Eil has offered these opportunities, nationally, since 1932. During the summer of 2025, 15 tsic students participated in an eil program.
$136,829 spentof which $136,829 as grants9% of program spendingCollege and career readiness projects address the challenges facing at-risk, low-income students on a path towards high school completion and post-secondary enrollment. These initiatives prepare participants for college and career pursuits after high school, whether they enroll in college or a career-technical education program, and provides support along the secondary education continuum with workshops and resources focused on preparedness and success in college and career.mcef, through additional grant-funding, provides 4 college campus visits and tours during the year as well as several college and career readiness workshops to tsic students in middle and high school.
$64,829 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,585,783.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $15M (+10%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 40% · 2018 27% · 2019 35% · 2020 46% · 2021 1% · 2022 51% · 2023 54% · 2024 40% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Chuck Licis-Masson
Tsic coordinator/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $512k → $446k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 41% · 2019 43% · 2020 36% · 2021 41% · 2022 43% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
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
95% of MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $961k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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.
Against its field
MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MONROE COUNTY 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,355,677 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($1,684,629). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,355,677 in grants to MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $1,684,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing