Virginia · Nonprofit
JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC
JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,200 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($135,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $491k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Jamestowne Society Inc does
Mission
To unite descendants of jamestown settlers prior to 1700, support archaelogical excavations at jamestown, provide educational programming and publications, conserve official documents from the colonial period, and promote the significance of historic jamestowne.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Jamestown rediscovery- an archaeological project of jamestown rediscovery investigating the remains of the original english settlement at jamestown established in the virginia colony on may 14, 1607. Critical archaeology: smithfield rescue excavations- this archaeology dig is excavating one of the most threatened areas of jamestown due to climate-related challenges. Smithfield is one of the lowest elevation areas on the property and has routinely flooded due to increasing storm and tidal events. Structural footprints, burials, and thousands of artifacts have been recovered. Trial and tribulations: reinterpreting 17th-century women's history at jamestown this project resulted in four new first-person women's history programs. These living history programs examines women's property rights, and religious liberties through character-driven interpretations of specific figures like lady frances berkeley, sarah drummond, virginia farrar, and anne fletcher.
$100,000 spentof which $100,000 as grants38% of program spendingAlice massey-nesbitt fellowship- each year the society awards a $10,000 fellowship to support the completion of a graduate thesis or essay on the history and culture of virginia before 1700.awarded to rebecca lovell, graduate student university of wyoming, for her thesis gentleman, soldiers, divers others: early modern masculinity at jamestowne, 1607-1622
$10,971 spentof which $10,971 as grants4% of program spendingTwo projects were funded in 2024.brunswick county chancery records were digitized and made available online in virginia memory. The records began in 1781 and have been scanned through 1857. Surry county missing will book 10 1834-1839. Book 10 was stolen and buried in a wooded area and discovered in 1869. Only to be stolen again. Newly rediscovered in 2024, the book needed cleaning and pages deacidified. Necessary mending will be needed for several pages. The book was scanned and made available online.
$44,601 spentof which $44,601 as grants17% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$108,751 spent41% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $264,323.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $2.3M (+28%).
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.
79% of JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY 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. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Bonnie Hofmeyer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $26k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 JAMESTOWNE 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
JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 81% · 2022 78% · 2023 95% — 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
50% of JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% 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
94% of JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC?
- JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,200 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($135,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $155,200 in grants to JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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