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Florida Cultural Group Inc
Florida Cultural Group Inc (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,277,643 to it, the largest being MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,091,020). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Florida Cultural Group Inc does
Mission
Florida Cultural Group, Inc. and its venue, Manatee Performing Arts Center, are the cultural anchor and economic drivers in the Florida Gulf Coast region. We provide for all ages affordable, high-quality and thought-provoking entertainment, as well as performance and technical-based education. In addition, we equip the community with ample meeting, event, and production space. We are committed to being the community's premier theater and the region's center for cultural, education, and artistic expression. Our team works tirelessly to ensure that we deliver engaging excellence for all ages, through the talent we present, the services we offer and the experience we create. Our goal is not just to entertain you, we want to inspire you.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Not only did our production program produce 99 in-house performances for hundreds of volunteer actors to discover their passions in acting, theatre lighting, and technical design we also hosted 54 professionally produced performances which included concerts, musicals, local dance companies, and band tributes. Totally 153 opportunities for the community to come to the Center to enjoy live entertainment. The Center is proud to provide free and affordable high quality live entertainment to the areas of at-risk youth and their families through our For Kids By Kids Program. Our Action through Acting initiative allows the Center to present on 6 socially misunderstood issues, on stage, through live theatre. Through the program we proudly partner with non-profits whose missions are to support and provide aid, based on socially misunderstood issues.
$1,658,198 spent$944,849 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe Center's Ballroom, gallery, and two theaters are utilized through our rental program for rehearsal space, nonprofit fundraisers, community meetings/forums, leadership and team building trainings, weddings, and more. In addition, costume and set pieces are also available for rent. We are the proud home to the Bradenton Kiwanis Club, who meet at the center for their weekly meetings.
$425,040 spent$242,190 earned by the program19% of program spendingThe Center's Conservatory for the Performing and Technical Arts Program consists of year-round theatrical education opportunities for ages 8-90. Directed by our professional artists and directors; participants have the opportunity to build social and communication skills, improve self-esteem, and boost confidence through participation in live theatre. Musical camps are a minimum of 2 weeks and are available throughout the year. Through the program, participants learn how to audition to participate in rehearsals and are a part of a minimum of 4 full-staged performances. One of the primary goals of this program is build a community of young performances and provide a safe environment for children to develop teamwork skills and confidence in front of a live audience. Our tech/theatre management program is designed to offer students a pre-professional experience in technical design or theatre management. Our DraMature program consists of actors ages 55+ that perform in various styles of productions and provide numerous community outreach programs in a variety of venues.
$137,688 spentof which $5,180 as grants$78,455 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,220,926.
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 $19M to $23M (+23%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 0% · 2021 20% · 2022 43% · 2023 19% · 2024 4% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Florida Cultural Group 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. 3 of the last 8 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
Janene M Amick
CEO
Board chair
Vernon Desear
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $175k → $118k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 Florida Cultural Group 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
Florida Cultural Group Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 Florida Cultural Group Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 56% · 2019 75% · 2020 69% · 2021 40% · 2022 66% · 2023 43% — 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
42% of Florida Cultural Group Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
78% of Florida Cultural Group Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $494k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Florida Cultural Group Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Florida Cultural Group 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 Florida Cultural Group 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 Florida Cultural Group Inc?
- Florida Cultural Group Inc (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,277,643 to it, the largest being MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,091,020). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Florida Cultural Group Inc have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,277,643 in grants to Florida Cultural Group Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Florida Cultural Group Inc?
- MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,091,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Florida Cultural Group 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing