Florida · Nonprofit
FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC
FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,505,716 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC ($489,825). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $475k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What First Coast Cultural Center Inc does
Mission
To bring the arts into the community through arts education, exhibitions, and outreach, and by honoring a donor-driven philosphy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Classes and workshops: Our classes offer an intimate, exceptional learning experience in an inspiring setting with locally and nationally recognized artists and educators and provide multi-faceted curriculum from novice to advanced levels. This extends maximum accessibility of programs that strive to develop the individual s artistic interests and abilities. In addition to our on-site programming, we offer a wide scope of educational opportunities for underserved communities throughout nearby counties. Our center s outreach efforts are targeted at reaching underserved children and adults by bringing high-quality arts education and artistic experiences to community centers and rehabilitation centers. Our outreach department fulfills our mission by hiring highly qualified art instructors, purchasing professional art supplies, and providing educational hands-on instruction for several longstanding programs.
$178,534 spentof which $48,486 as grants$128,783 earned by the program82% of program spendingSound Connections Music Therapy: We have been the leading non-profit arts organization that has made music therapy for children with special needs a priority in our surrounding areas. In 2006, we started a small pilot program, which has become a vital resource for children with varied disabilities. We have extended to a total of eight schools, which includes three Title I schools: Webster Elementary, Osceola Elementary, and First Coast Technical College (Pre-K Headstart Program). Due to a decrease in donors towards this program, our organization will be placing a haitus on SCMT services after 2024 for further fundraising efforts.
$38,480 spentof which $8,625 as grants18% of program spendingMarket and Art Sales - We present artists work in our galleries with opening receptions or market them in our Gift Shop. During our exhibiting receptions, the artists are also available for one-on-one opportunities for questions and answers about their creative process. The galleries are free to attend for our community to support our local artists. Our artists receive 60% commission while the 40% goes towards the organization s mission to promote arts education.
$21,130 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $217,014.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $2.6M (+113%).
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 8% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 7% · 2022 24% · 2023 25% · 2024 17% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $88k → $182k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER 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
FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 42% · 2019 38% · 2020 29% · 2021 37% · 2022 36% · 2023 40% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
67% of FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER 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. $347k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER 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
35% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER 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 FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC?
- FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,505,716 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC ($489,825). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,505,716 in grants to FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $489,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER 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 24 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