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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.

$248k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.8MEducation$804kPublic Safety & Disaster$588kPublic Benefit$401kEnvironment$253kCommunity Improvement$151kHuman Services$134kCivil Rights$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $226,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $248,324 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,524 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VILLAGE SQUARE$50,000
WGCU PUBLIC MEDIA$30,000
FLORIDA PRESS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES$25,000
CULTURED BOOKS LITERACY FOUDNATION$10,000
BAM FESTIVAL INC$10,000
KEY WEST ART & HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY$10,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY INC$10,000
OUT ARTS & CULTURE$10,000
FLORIDA REMEMBERED SOCIETY INC$10,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPEN BOOKS PRISON BOOK PROJECT: $5k → 16%TRAIL OF FLORIDA'S INDIAN HERITAGE INC: $5k → 10%ISLAND SPACE CARIBBEAN MUSEUM: $7k → 13%200 MUSLIM WOMEN WHO CARE: $10k → 13%ARTS CONSERVATORY FOR TEENS: $5k → 12%MIAMI SHORES PEOPLE OF COLOR INC: $40k → 15%MIAMI SHORES PEOPLE OF COLOR: $11k → 15%MIAMI SHORES PEOPLE OF COLOR: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Florida Humanities Council Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 90%.

Florida Humanities Council Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 145 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145
161

Total granted

$5.1M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+17%

Still filing today

72%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TT
    TO THE VILLAGE SQUARE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $309k · revenue +50%
  • FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $201k · revenue +63%
  • EC
    Eckerd College
    3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • FV
    FLORIDA VETERANS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +155%
  • TP
    THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +10%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Grand Lodge of Florida Museum & Library Inc
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2
Lake Buena Vista Historical Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Glades Historical Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Plantation Historical Society Inc

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.

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5
Florida Historical Society Inc

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,…

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6
The Florida Heritage Book Festival

To attract readers, historians and tourists who appreciate the distinctive heritage offered by florida authors and history.

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7
Port St Lucie Historical Society in

Gather information history of city

Arts & Culture
8
Saint Peters Landmark Preservation Trust
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9
West Florida Railroad Museum Inc

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.

—
10
Fruitland Penninsula Historical Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Osceola Historical Society
Arts & Culture
12
Flagler Beach Historical Museum Inc

Collect & archive Flagler Beach historic

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key West Art and Historical Society Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

208 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
72
Early backer (in before they grew)
196/208
Grantees still filing
138/208
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+82 more: $2,309,500 · Arts & Culture+82 moreORANGE COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $122,750 · OtherORANGE COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEESUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $89,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $85,000 · OtherMIAMI DADE COLLEGE: $83,500 · Other+82 more: $1,887,400 · Other+82 moreFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,500 · EducationFLORIDA GULF …Eckerd College: $100,000 · EducationEckerd Colleg…FLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $90,000 · EducationFLAGLER COLLE…UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…Nova Southeastern University Inc: $45,000 · EducationNova Southeas…THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC: $38,000 · EducationLIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $35,000 · EducationBROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $28,100 · EducationLincoln Park Mainstreet Inc: $26,500 · Education+7 more: $112,000 · Education+7 moreTO THE VILLAGE SQUARE INC: $308,990 · Public BenefitFLORIDA VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitTHE ALLAPATTAH COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $43,000 · Community ImprovementBROOKSVILLE VISION FOUNDATION INC: $41,750 · Community ImprovementHIGHWAY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION & ENHANCE DIST INC: $19,000 · Community ImprovementQUINCY MAIN STREET INC: $14,000 · Community ImprovementMain Street DeFuniak Springs Inc: $10,000 · Community ImprovementOKEECHOBEE MAIN STREET: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC: $35,250 · EnvironmentTROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentKEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY: $15,250 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF CASA FELIZ INC: $24,500 · Recreation & SportsFriends of Weeki Wachee Springs State Park Inc: $14,500 · Recreation & SportsREEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF SARASOTA COUNTY PARKS INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC: $8,500 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$2,309,500Other$2,268,150Education$725,100Public Benefit$358,990Community Improvement$137,750Environment$72,500Recreation & Sports$67,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTO THE VILLAGE SQUARE INC: $308,990 over 7y, 24% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEckerd College: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $66,850 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetORMOND BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $65,150 over 5y, 49% of budgetFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetSULPHUR SPRINGS MUSEUM: $63,300 over 7y, 17% of budgetCORAL SPRINGS MUSEUM OF ART INC: $61,850 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetGOODWOOD MUSEUM AND GARDENS INC: $61,250 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetMIAMI SHORES PEOPLE OF COLOR INC: $56,400 over 3y, 11% of budgetGADSDEN ARTS INC: $55,250 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetMuseum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS INC: $52,950 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE THE EATONVILLE COMMUNITY INC: $50,250 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetAmelia Island Museum of History Inc: $50,250 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPIONEER FLORIDA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $48,950 over 6y, 11% of budgetJOHN G RILEY CENTERMUSEUM FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE: $47,750 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetAE BEAN BACKUS MUSEUM INC: $45,250 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetDUNEDIN MUSEUM INC: $45,250 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE: $45,250 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEWALL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES INC: $44,250 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ALLAPATTAH COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $43,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetMilitary Heritage Museum Inc: $42,250 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetALBIN POLASEK MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDENS INC: $41,850 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBROOKSVILLE VISION FOUNDATION INC: $41,750 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSaint Petersburg Preservation Inc: $41,250 over 4y, 13% of budgetDR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC: $41,250 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC: $38,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMatheson History Museum: $37,500 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY INC: $37,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $36,850 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetYOUR REAL STORIES INC: $36,250 over 4y, 45% of budgetBEACHES AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETYINC: $35,250 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC: $35,250 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMARCO ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $35,250 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWINTER GARDEN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $35,250 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetThe Stranahan House Inc: $35,250 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMonticello Opera House Inc: $35,250 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetGOLD COAST RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $35,250 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetBAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX INC: $35,250 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSPADY CULTURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $35,250 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetPENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $35,250 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTHE STUDIO 620 INC: $35,250 over 2y, 6.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Arts of Centra…John S and James L Kn…The Miami Foundation …Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…Hfsf Grants Managemen…Florida Tourism Indus…Pinellas Community Fo…Community Foundation …Community Foundation …Suncoast Credit Union…Gulf Coast Community …
United Arts of Central Florida IncFL30.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Florida Humanities Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florida Humanities Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 640%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
64get no government money at all
68report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 311 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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