Florida · Nonprofit
DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,941 to it, the largest being HOWARD P COLHOUN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($41,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $513k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $97k
- Net assets
- $642k
What Delray Beach Historical Society does
Mission
The Delray Beach Historical Society's three main mission-based program areas are exhibits and education programs, events and celebrations and archive preservation & learning center services. They use three historic cottages, a professional archive and a one-care campus for lectures, history exhibits, workshops, summer camp, heritage and fundraising events, local history research, oral histories and accessioning and preserving local history in the city archive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Delray Beach Historical Society operates and maintains three facilities: hunt house (learning center/office), the 1926 bungalow (office/meeting room), and the cason cottage (a museum reflecting florida lifestyle 1919-1935). All facilities are historic structures.
$315,556 spent$9,804 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $315,556.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $495k to $615k (+24%).
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 58% · 2018 42% · 2019 40% · 2020 57% · 2021 33% · 2022 43% · 2023 40% · 2024 37% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $11k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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
DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 94% · 2019 64% · 2020 93% · 2021 51% · 2022 56% · 2023 56% — 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
14% of DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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.
Government funding DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $125 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $125
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 DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,941 to it, the largest being HOWARD P COLHOUN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($41,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $96,941 in grants to DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- HOWARD P COLHOUN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $41,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.
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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 15 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