· Public charity
Florida Humanities Council Inc
Florida humanities' mission is to preserve, promote and share the history, literature, cultures, and personal stories that offer floridians a better understanding of themselves, their communities and their state.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $226,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $248,324 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,524 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VILLAGE SQUARE | $50,000 |
| WGCU PUBLIC MEDIA | $30,000 |
| FLORIDA PRESS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA REMEMBERED SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CULTURED BOOKS LITERACY FOUDNATION | $10,000 |
| KEY WEST ART & HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| OUT ARTS & CULTURE | $10,000 |
| BAM FESTIVAL INC | $10,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| EMERALD COAST WRITERS INC | $8,000 |
| THE ALLAPATTAH COLLABORATIVE CDC | $7,000 |
| WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLORIDA | $7,000 |
| HERITAGE VILLAGE | $7,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Florida Humanities Council Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
145 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 131 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TTTO THE VILLAGE SQUARE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $309k · revenue +50%
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2025 · $201k · revenue +63%- ECEckerd College3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- FVFLORIDA VETERANS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +155%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +16%
- TPTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INCone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
established to educate the public on and preserve the history and heritage of the city of Lake Buena Vista, Florida and neighboring city of Bay Lake, Florida. Purchase and archive historical artifacts for display and archival both physical…
The lawrence e. will museum: a museum of the glades is a florida-based not-for-profit cultural and educational body whose mission is to preserve, exhibit, and provide educational programs about the history, cultural heritage, geology and…
To preserve and present Plantation and South Florida's ongoing historical, educational and cultural resources, focusing on the youth of our community as well as its mutli-cultural residents with a museum and diversified outreach program.
Mission statement: the florida historical society is dedicated to preserving florida's past through the collection and archival maintenance of historical documents and photographs, the publication of scholarly research on florida history,…
To attract readers, historians and tourists who appreciate the distinctive heritage offered by florida authors and history.
Gather information history of city
The museum is dedicated to preserving, displaying, and sharing the railroad history of Northwest Florida and South Alabama for the education and enjoyment of residents and visitors.
The organization's mission is to bring together people to discover, preserve and promote the history of the fruitland penninsula so that future generations can know and benefit from our rich heritage, cultures, and traditions.
Collect & archive Flagler Beach historic
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key West Art and Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Strength in Numbers Power in Connection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
208 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 208 of the 311 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TO THE VILLAGE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ORMOND BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SULPHUR SPRINGS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CORAL SPRINGS MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWOOD MUSEUM AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI SHORES PEOPLE OF COLOR INC ↗
- Who funds GADSDEN ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE THE EATONVILLE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Amelia Island Museum of History Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER FLORIDA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JOHN G RILEY CENTERMUSEUM FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE ↗
- Who funds DUNEDIN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AE BEAN BACKUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds STONEWALL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLAPATTAH COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Military Heritage Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds ALBIN POLASEK MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSVILLE VISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Petersburg Preservation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Arts of Central Florida Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Broward Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Hfsf Grants Management Inc · Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corp Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Community Foundation of North Florida Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Florida Humanities Council Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- St Johns County Cultural Council — 39% of income from government
- The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the — 28% of income from government
- Island Society for the Promotion of Artistic & Cul — 25% of income from government
- Florida Memorial University Inc — 11% of income from government
- University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc — 6% of income from government
- Military Heritage Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Saint Augustine Historical Society — 3% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bakehouse Art Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stonewall Library and Archives Inc — 1% of income from government
- Opa-Locka Community Development Corporation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Matheson History Museum — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Trout Lake Nature Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amelia Island Museum of History Inc — 0% of income from government
- Beaches Area Historical Societyinc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.