Florida · Nonprofit
PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC
PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,080,798 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($1,447,472). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Public Education Foundation of Marion County Inc does
Mission
To financially and materially support marion county public schools, its students and teachers. This is done by focusing community interest on public education; initiating support and underwriting projects and programs that benefit students, teachers, administrators, and marion county public schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule otake stock in children is a program for deserving low-income children in marion county to escape the cycle of poverty by offering students college scholarships if they follow program guidelines. Each student is also provided a caring volunteer mentor that meets with the student once a week for all 4 years of high school. The goal is to reduce high school drop-outs and increase the number of students who finish college. During the 2024-2025 year there were 256 active middle and high school students in the program with each of those students having a 100% mentor match. There are 195 active student mentors with multiple volunteers mentoring more than 1 student. College tuition scholarships were awarded to the 42 students in the graduating class of 2025. The program boasts a 98% high school graduation rate compared to 72% of their at-risk peer group in florida.
$409,772 spentof which $135,248 as grants25% of program spendingTools 4 teaching is designed to allow teachers to obtain free teaching materials and other free supplies for their classrooms and students in need. The goal is to allow both teachers and students to have the tools necessary for success. All marion county public school teachers may shop once a month for free supplies. Teachers who have the materials and supplies necessary to teach are more motivated to teach and the quality of their teaching is improved. In annual survey responses, teachers reported that having adequate schools supplies improved student grades, attendance, behavior and self-esteem. During the 2024-2025 year, tools 4 teaching hosted a total of 2,974 teacher shopping trips. Approximately $238,143 in free supplies were provided to 883 teachers across all of the district's schools.
$307,082 spentof which $238,144 as grants18% of program spendingSee schedule ogrants for great ideas is a competitive grant program open to all marion county public schools teachers and principals. The grants provide financial resources to implement creative and innovative curriculum and programs in the areas of stem education, literacy, assisting low-performing students, increasing graduation rates, career and technical education, teacher quality, and supporting students in need, including mental health and wellness initiatives. The grant applications are scored by a group of community volunteers and foundation board members. Grants are scored on the following criteria: 1. Addresses a need or creates an opportunity. 2. Will positively impact student learning. 3. Measurable outcomes are realistic. 4. Follow-up evaluation. 5. Number of low performing and overall students impacted. During the 2024-25 school year, approximately $115,572 in grants for great ideas projects was awarded.
$130,616 spentof which $108,772 as grants8% of program spendingOther programs of the foundation such as the school business partner program, golden apple teacher recognition program, school related employee of the year program, teacher to be scholarship program, senior scholarship program and the silver river science lab & education center all enhance support for marion county public schools. Additional initiatives during the 2024-2025 school year included building student resiliency to support student mental health and wellness, new worlds reading initiative to support literacy efforts, and the thank a teacher program to ultimately support teacher recognition and retention.
$819,920 spentof which $541,210 as grants49% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,667,390.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.7M to $4.2M (+13%).
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 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 10% · 2024 9% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY 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. 4 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
Meghan Magamoll
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $241k → $353k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $35k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 62% · 2019 58% · 2020 57% · 2021 52% · 2022 53% · 2023 47% — 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
50% of PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
83% of PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY 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. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Marion County Public Schools · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC?
- PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,080,798 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($1,447,472). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,080,798 in grants to PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY INC?
- TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $1,447,472 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARION COUNTY 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.
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 18 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