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FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $460,437 to it, the largest being GRACE W TAYLOR TRUST ($268,834). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$768k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$460k
Net assets
$1.6M
8/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Florida Historical Society Inc does

Mission

Mission statement: the florida historical society is dedicated to preserving florida's past through the collection and archival maintenance of historical documents and photographs, the publication of scholarly research on florida history, and educating the public about florida history through a variety of public history programs. The florida historical society: produces the prestigious florida historical quarterly; broadcasts the popular radio program florida frontiers statewide; published high quality nonfiction and fictional works based on florida history; enables important and meaningful scholar and public research; provides essential outreach and educational programs; and raises awareness of the rich and diverse historical resources and stories of florida.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The florida historical society (fhs) enables important and meaningful scholarly and public research, essential outreach and educational programs, and raises awareness of the rich and diverse historical resources and stories of florida. Fhs produces a variety of public history programs including; florida frontiers, a weekly statewide radio program; the florida historical society archeological institute and related presentations; and the discover florida history lecture series. Fhs manages, staffs, and oversees the florida historical society archeological institute and all matters related to the rossetter house, property and museum.

    $441,900 spent
    56% of program spending
  2. Publications and printing: the society operates the florida historical society press which publishes a diverse collecton of interesting books, scholarly research publications and the florida historical quarterly.

    $88,625 spent
    11% of program spending
  3. Manage, staff, maintain and oversee all matters related to the rossetter house, property and museum, and the brevard museum of science.

    $252,967 spent
    32% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $783,492.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($625k) Expenses 100 ($712k) Net assets 100 ($979k)2018 Revenue 104 ($651k) Expenses 94 ($668k) Net assets 98 ($959k)2019 Revenue 134 ($839k) Expenses 96 ($682k) Net assets 116 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 89 ($558k) Expenses 83 ($589k) Net assets 111 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 20 ($123k) Expenses 77 ($550k) Net assets 67 ($657k)2022 Revenue 210 ($1.3M) Expenses 88 ($628k) Net assets 136 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 142 ($886k) Expenses 102 ($729k) Net assets 152 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 123 ($768k) Expenses 99 ($706k) Net assets 158 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (123)Expenses (99)Net assets (158)

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 $721k to $1.4M (+89%).

$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$721k
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 13% · 2021 208% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$87k
’17
−$17k
’18
$157k
’19
−$31k
’20
−$427k
’21
$682k
’22
$157k
’23
$62k
’24
18
months of
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.

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Listed1719171820191815
Joined·+2+0+3+2+1+0+0
No longer listed·0220213
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $21k → $38k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 71% · 2020 39% · 2021 60% · 2022 39% · 2023 93% — 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

43% of FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 3 states in all.

WI
NV
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record.

Federal$8k
grants $8kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$8k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 17%Fundraising 2%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $460,437 to it, the largest being GRACE W TAYLOR TRUST ($268,834). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $460,437 in grants to FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
GRACE W TAYLOR TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $268,834 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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