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DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC
DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC (Florida) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,858 to it, the largest being THE PARALLEL FOUNDATION INC ($250,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Dr Carter G Woodson African American Museum Inc does
Mission
Museum to preserve, present and interpret history of blacks in st petersburg.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum programs to preserve, present, and interpret history of blacks in st. Petersburg to promote understanding in the community through exhibits, youth programs, oral history projects, speakers and films.
$262,269 spent56% of program spendingThe museum's woodson warrior scholarship initiative provided 81 academic scholarships to local youth in st. Petersburg, fl to support their goals of attending college.
$207,973 spentof which $197,479 as grants44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $470,242.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.7M to $9.0M (+93%).
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 24% · 2019 25% · 2020 17% · 2021 46% · 2022 17% · 2023 10% · 2024 47% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Frenchette Bradley
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $80k → $196k.
8 of 21 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 DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM 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
DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 29% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% — 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
60% of DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
81% of DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM 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. $491k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $581k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$581k
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 DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC?
- DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC (Florida) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,858 to it, the largest being THE PARALLEL FOUNDATION INC ($250,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,295,858 in grants to DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC?
- THE PARALLEL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM 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.
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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 21 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