CHARITABLE PARTNERS

U.S. Polo Assn. Palm Beaches Marathon is honored to partner with five incredible charitable organizations that make a real difference in our community.

Education Foundation of Palm Beach County – supporting local students and teachers through classroom resources, innovative grants, school supplies, and educational opportunities. Learn more >>
Friends of Manatee Lagoon – protecting manatees and their coastal habitat through education, conservation, and seagrass restoration. Learn more >>
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Palm Beach County – building affordable homes and stronger communities while helping families achieve safe, stable homeownership. Learn more >>
Loggerhead Marinelife Center – promoting ocean conservation through sea turtle research, rehabilitation, education, and protection of threatened and endangered sea turtles. Learn more >>
Palm Beach Roadrunners – building a strong, healthy running community and encouraging fitness at every level. Learn more >>

Your support helps extend their impact even further. We invite you to:

Make a donation of any size to directly support their work.
Set up your own fundraising page and rally friends, family, and colleagues to join you in giving back.

Together, we can help our partners continue their important missions and strengthen the community we all share.

Together, we can help our partners continue their

important missions and strengthen the community we all share.

EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY

Make Your Miles Matter for Palm Beach County’s Students & Teachers

As you run through the heart of Palm Beach County, you can make every mile mean even more by supporting the teachers and students who make our community so special! A donation to the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County helps provide local public schools with the resources, innovative programs, and opportunities students and educators need to succeed.

Your support helps put essential school supplies into classrooms through Red Apple Supplies, our free teacher resource store; fuels innovative learning through classroom grants; provides students with backpacks and school supplies; and connects our schools with community partners committed to helping every student thrive.

Whether you’re running 5 miles, 13.1 or 26.2, your race can go beyond the finish line. Run for our teachers. Run for our students. Run for the future of Palm Beach County.

ABOUT US

The Education Foundation of Palm Beach County is an independent nonprofit organization that partners with the School District of Palm Beach County and the business, philanthropic, and community sectors to advance excellence and equity in public education. Through programs including Red Apple Supplies, our free teacher resource store; innovative teacher grants; the Backpack Initiative; and meaningful community partnerships, the Foundation helps ensure educators have the resources they need and students have opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Since 2016, Red Apple Supplies alone has distributed more than $10 million in free classroom resources to support teachers and students throughout Palm Beach County.

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Please make donation to Education Foundation at the U.S. Polo Assn. Palm Beaches Marathon.

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FRIENDS OF MANATEE LAGOON

Running along Flagler Drive means you’re racing beside one of Florida’s most important marine habitats — the intracoastal waters that shelter manatees and the seagrass meadows they depend on. As you push toward your finish line, we invite you to help protect theirs. A donation to Friends of Manatee Lagoon supports environmental education, seagrass restoration, and conservation programs that safeguard the gentle giants who call this shoreline home. If today’s run inspired you, consider fueling the mission that keeps our waters — and our manatees — thriving.

About Friends of Manatee Lagoon

Friends of Manatee Lagoon is dedicated to protecting manatees – our state’s official marine mammal — in Florida’s coastal regions and restoring and protecting their aquatic habitat. We raise funds to educate the community about manatees, promote awareness of their threats, engage in marine life conservation efforts, and protect the critically important seagrass that is their primary food source, ultimately leading to a healthy, global ecosystem. Since FOML was created seven years ago, its mission has expanded to include a commitment to connect people, wildlife and the waters we all share.

Located along the Lake Worth Lagoon estuary, less than a mile south of the Port of Palm Beach in West Palm Beach, Friends of Manatee Lagoon is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

Please make a donation to the Friends of Manatee Lagoon at the U.S. Polo Assn. Palm Beaches Marathon.

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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Greater Palm Beach County

Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

About us: For forty years, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Palm Beach County has brought people together to build homes, hope, and a stronger community. We serve families and individuals through affordable, new home construction. Partner families help build their home and the homes of their neighbors, attend homeownership courses and financial literacy classes, and purchase their homes with an interest-free, 30-year mortgage. We also offer low or no cost home improvements and repairs to homeowners across Palm Beach County. Together, we expand access to affordable housing and build a world where everyone has a safe place to call home.

Please make a donation to Habitat for Humanity at the U.S. Polo Assn. Palm Beaches Marathon.

LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER

Loggerhead Marinelife Center is the USA Today #1 Best Free attraction for 2025. This nonprofit sea turtle rehabilitation facility provides up-close views of sea turtle patients in outdoor hospital care tanks, interactive and educational displays including local marine habitat aquariums, and information about marine research and conservation programs. Visitors can also see the hospital and research teams in action on site.

Situated on one of the world’s most important sea turtle nesting beaches, Loggerhead Marinelife Center is open daily from 10 am to 5 pm and hosts more than 350,000 guests with donation-based admission each year. Daily experiences include educational talks, feeding talks, upgraded tour experiences and more. The Center also has an on-site Cafe and is within walking distance of Juno Beach.

The Center’s conservation team works with 90 local and international organizations across six continents to form partnerships and share conservation initiatives and best practices that are core to its mission of ocean conservation.

The Center also operates the Juno Beach Pier, a quarter mile north on US 1, which hosts world-class angling and sightseeing.

For more information, visit marinelife.org or call (561) 627-8280.

Please make a donation to Loggerhead Marinelife Center at the U.S. Polo Assn. Palm Beaches Marathon.

Palm Beach Roadrunners

The Palm Beach Roadrunners, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization promoting physical fitness through running, are honored to be a charity partner for this year’s U.S. Polo Assn. Palm Beaches Marathon. Your support means the world to us!

We’re passionate about supporting local Title 1 high school and middle school running programs. We provide equipment, apparel, coaching, and event support for student athletes. We also offer grants and scholarships to individuals and local school programs, highlighting the virtues of volunteerism, inclusivity, and the benefits of fitness through running. We’ve even sent student athletes to summer training camps and underwritten run programs to encourage young runners of all abilities in structured track and cross-country programs.

With several hundred annual members, the Palm Beach Roadrunners are a vibrant part of the community. We host three popular races: Run 4 The Pies (four-mile), Classics By The Sea (5k and 10k), and the annual Shamrock Run (10-miler and 5k). These events bring together runners, walkers, and families for friendly competition and fundraising.

Whether you’re a local runner or visiting for the race, you might know our club! Come visit the Palm Beach Roadrunners tent on race weekend near the Start and Finish line. We love meeting fellow runners from across the country and around the world!

Please make a donation to Palm Beach Roadrunners at the U.S. Polo Assn. Palm Beaches Marathon.