South Carolina · Nonprofit
Fort Mill History Museum
Fort Mill History Museum (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,776 to it, the largest being COMPORIUM FOUNDATION INC ($27,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $203k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $445k
What Fort Mill History Museum does
Mission
To preserve Fort Mill's heritage for the benefit of present and future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Fort Mill History Museum accomplished its not-for-profit goals by obtaining sponsors and meberships. We were able to host our signature Lanterns & Legends Tour and also held many other smaller tours/presentations. We continued to increase our partnership with the Town of Fort Mill and the local businesses in the area by partnering with them in many events and activities. The museum's mission is to promote the collection, preservation, educational interpretation, and display of those artifacts, documents, and events most representative of Fort Mill, South Carolina - its pre-history and history, its people and institutions, and its cultural and economic development continue to be accomplished.
$152,812 spent$34,209 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $152,812.
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 $314k to $415k (+32%).
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 46% · 2019 25% · 2020 26% · 2021 44% · 2022 5% · 2023 52% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of Fort Mill History Museum’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. 1 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
Ashley Taylor
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $7k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Fort Mill History Museum’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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 Mill History Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 Mill History Museum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 82% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 50% · 2022 53% · 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.
Where its funders are
66% of Fort Mill History Museum's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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.
Against its field
Fort Mill History Museum holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Fort Mill History Museum
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Fort Mill History Museum: 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 Mill History Museum?
- Fort Mill History Museum (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,776 to it, the largest being COMPORIUM FOUNDATION INC ($27,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fort Mill History Museum have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $56,776 in grants to Fort Mill History Museum, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fort Mill History Museum?
- COMPORIUM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fort Mill History Museum find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 7 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