Delaware · Nonprofit
FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC
FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,455 to it, the largest being FORT MILES HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ($111,955). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,172 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,172 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Greater Lewes Foundationlocal
- Delaware Humanities Councilportfolio match
- Maryland Historical Society Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $60k.
From the IRS filings of FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA 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
FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Greater Lewes FoundationlocalDE · funds 14 organizations near you
- Delaware Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Historical Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- General Society of Colonial Warsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wyeth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Society Daughters of the American Revolutionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
23% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA 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 FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC?
- FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,455 to it, the largest being FORT MILES HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ($111,955). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $112,455 in grants to FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC?
- FORT MILES HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $111,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT MILES MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL AREA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing