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CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC
CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,069 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $500k
What Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville Inc does
Mission
Mission: enrich life in northeast florida by investing in arts and culture. Vision: arts and culture are recognized by all as essential for our quality of life. Values: collaborative - we value collaboration as a means to expand our collective vision. Imaginative - we believe it will take vision and innovation to ignite the creative spark that will lead jacksonville to realize its potential. Engaging - we believe that as community leaders we must represent and serve the interests of the cultural sector and the public at large with energy and integrity. Inclusive - we believe that everyone benefits from access to arts and culture and we are committed to championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive, equitable city. Roles: ensure broad accessibility and public engagement with the arts culturally, socially, educationally, and economically. Build relationships and enhance communication with artists, cultural organizations, educational institutions, an
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Programs
Cultural service grants program: the council entered into an agreement with the city of jacksonville to distribute funds to various cultural organizations which are allocated to qualifying organizations.
$6,370,888 spentof which $6,007,092 as grants84% of program spendingArt in public places: oversees the selection, installation, maintenance, and conservation of the artworks for both public and private projects. Through its collection and related programming, app raises public awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of the arts through direct experience.
$1,189,079 spent16% of program spendingAdvocacy/development: the council's goal is to strengthen the arts and cultural sector to improve the quality of life in the region through collaboration and activism, and regranting funds to various cultural organizations and individual artists. The cultural council of greater jacksonville champions the appreciation, relevance, and expression of art and culture. It serves to make more art, more available to more people; providing creative solutions for social challenges and driving economic development for the city of jacksonville.
$54,235 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,614,202.
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 2021 to 2022, from $577k to $1.0M (+76%).
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 93% · 2018 95% · 2019 94% · 2020 90% · 2021 90% · 2022 93% · 2023 88% · 2024 93% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Diana Donovan
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Johnson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $11k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 84% · 2019 89% · 2020 92% · 2021 91% · 2022 89% · 2023 91% — 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 CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
98% of CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE 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. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC?
- CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,069 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $390,069 in grants to CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE 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 8 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