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GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC

GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,986 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($31,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$302k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$74k
Net assets
$312k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Inc Gullah Museum of Hilton Headinc does

Mission

Restoring, preserving and sharing the gullah culture

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Restoratuion ans preserving and sharing the gullah culture by renovating and operating the museum and operating tours of the facilities together with presentations regarding the gullah culture

    $172,979 spent
    90% of program spending
  2. Presentations regaarding the gullah culture

    $18,750 spent
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $191,729.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($177k) Expenses 100 ($87k) Net assets 100 ($276k)2022 Revenue 68 ($120k) Expenses 206 ($180k) Net assets 78 ($216k)2023 Revenue 209 ($371k) Expenses 299 ($261k) Net assets 93 ($257k)2024 Revenue 160 ($284k) Expenses 325 ($284k) Net assets 90 ($248k)2025 Revenue 171 ($302k) Expenses 273 ($238k) Net assets 113 ($312k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (171)Expenses (273)Net assets (113)Peer revenue range

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 $248k to $312k (+26%).

$276k
$216k
$257k
$248k
$312k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 71% · 2024 64% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$90k
’21
−$60k
’22
$109k
’23
−$177
’24
$64k
’25
2.1
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.

202320242025
Listed111111
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $750 → $38k.

Funder
'19
'20
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
3
2
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC’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

GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC.

43%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — 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.

Where its funders are

71% of GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state.

OR

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

’19
’20
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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

Against its field

GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

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Questions and answers

Who funds GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC?
GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,986 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($31,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $73,986 in grants to GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC?
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry is the largest funder on record, with $31,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEAD INC GULLAH MUSEUM OF HILTON HEADINC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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