About St Joe Community Foundation
The St. Joe Community Foundation concentrates almost all of its giving on K–12 and local education initiatives, directing large, multi-grant awards to county-level education foundations. Its funding is regionally focused in Northwest Florida and appears aimed at strengthening public school systems and educational opportunities through community foundations rather than national charities. The foundation’s grants are few but large, and typically payable across multiple transactions to the same education-focused organizations.
Focus Areas
County education foundations (Bay County)County education foundations (Walton County)K–12 public school support and capacity buildingLocal education programmatic and capital support
Who They Fund
local community residentsparticipants in cultural arts programsstudents and learners served by community education programsindividuals requiring community health servicesHurricane Michael-affected communities
About St Joe Community Foundation
The St Joe Community Foundation Inc. gives in large, repeat awards to education organizations in Bay and Walton counties, with county education foundations appearing again and again in the recent grant record. One Bay County education intermediary received $932,499 in 2025, while a Walton County counterpart received $840,330 in 2023 and $535,642 in 2024, showing a pattern of substantial support routed through local education foundations. That structure fits the foundation’s broader focus on K–12 public school support and capacity building, alongside local education programmatic and capital support. The foundation’s named programs reinforce that local emphasis. Its scholarship program, No Ordinary JOE Scholarship, serves graduating high school seniors in Bay County or Walton County who attend school there and show leadership and community service. Its competitive grant programs are open to nonprofit projects that improve quality of life in Bay and Walton counties across cultural arts, education, environmental stewardship, and healthcare. Across the recent grants list, the foundation also supports school-adjacent organizations, arts groups, health providers, and environmental nonprofits, but the largest commitments are clearly anchored in education infrastructure and community benefit within Northwest Florida.
What St Joe Community Foundation Funds
Education is the clearest through line. The foundation gave $255,527 to Fsu Foundation in 2025 for education, and $132,784 to the same organization in 2024 for education, indicating continued support for higher-education-linked work in the region. It also awarded $103,000 to Boys & Girls Club of Bay County in 2025 for education, a local youth-serving grant that sits closer to direct student support. Beyond education, the foundation funds community health and environmental work. In health, it gave $250,000 to Point Washington Medical Clinic in 2023 for community health care initiatives, and $229,797 to Nemours Foundation in 2024 for health. On the environmental side, $180,000 went to Friends of Florida State Forests in 2024 for environment, while $150,000 and $123,390 went to Nokuse Education Inc in 2025 and 2024 for education and environment-related work.
How St Joe Community Foundation Gives
Typical awards cluster around a mid-sized grant profile, with p25 at $6,500, a median of $15,000, and p75 at $33,048. The recent grants table shows a different layer of giving as well: repeated large transfers to the same education intermediaries across multiple years, including Bay Education Foundation and Walton Education Foundation. That repeated presence suggests multi-year relationship funding rather than one-off support. The foundation operates a local grantmaking model centered on nonprofit projects, and its competitive grant programs are explicitly open to applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5.5M
Total Assets
$3.8M
Total Revenue
$4.9M
Total Expenses
$5.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $7K and $33K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$7K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$33K
Geographic Reach
Local6 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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