Florida · Nonprofit
FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC
FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,714 to it, the largest being CHARLES G WRIGHT ENDOWMENT FOR HUMA INC ($85,550). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $308k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $307k
- Net assets
- $590k
What Florida Keys History and Discovery Foundation Inc does
Mission
Mission is to support a world class history and discovery center that accurately reflects our florida keys in a multifaceted and interactive environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The florida keys history & discovery foundation supports the florida keys history & discovery center in its mission to preserve, share, and celebrate the unique history, culture, and environment of the florida keys while fostering community connection and lifelong learning for both residents and visitors.throughout the year, the organization delivered a diverse range of educational programs and community initiatives. These included a robust lecture series featuring notable speakers, a community book club, youth-focused programming such as summer camp and story time, and rotating exhibits that interpret the region's rich heritage and ecology. Summer camp programs provided immersive, hands-on learning experiences for children, while story time and family programming created accessible entry points for early learners and families to engage with local history and environmental stewardship.the organization served a broad and diverse audience, including local residents, school groups, workforce families, and visitors from around the world. Attendance across exhibits, lectures, and programs demonstrated strong community engagement, with continued growth in participation and interest.…
$113,796 spent$26,493 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $113,796.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.1M to $670k (−42%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 20% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% · 2024 9% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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.
Board chair
Rich Russell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $29k → $4k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION 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 KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
57% 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 KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 72% · 2019 48% · 2020 34% · 2021 40% · 2022 46% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
84% of FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION 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. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
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 FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION 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
56% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION 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 KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC?
- FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,714 to it, the largest being CHARLES G WRIGHT ENDOWMENT FOR HUMA INC ($85,550). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $306,714 in grants to FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC?
- CHARLES G WRIGHT ENDOWMENT FOR HUMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION 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 2018–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing