Florida · Nonprofit
KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,642 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS INC ($158,099). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $406k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Key West Art and Historical Society Inc does
Mission
The mission of the key west art and historical society is to preserve the culture of the florida keys through exhibiting and displaying regional art, architecture, and history for the purpoose of educating the community and visiting public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The key west art and historical society hosted several rotating exhibits at the key west museum of art and history at the custom house and updated displays at its three other museums. The society continued its youth and adult education programs like artcamp!, homeschool program, community day, family day, historic harbor sails, distinguished speaker series, happy hour with the historian, and more. Education staff performed outreach to elementary and middle schools within the monroe county school district. Additionally, signature special events like the custom house holiday concert & bazaar, conch revival picnic, and tennessee williams key west festival were held at the museums. The society also began replacing the interior elevator at the custom house.
$1,088,872 spent$2,146,422 earned by the program48% of program spendingOperation of the museum stores, which provide museum guests with books, collection inspired objects, and educational resources promoting themission of the organization and culture of the florida keys.
$638,830 spent28% of program spendingConduct educational programs, engaging children and adults in learning experiences to promote the cultural heritage of the florida keys. Programming: -artcamp: an art and history based camp that runs through summer and school breaks. Scholarships are provided for many underserved children. Homeschool: an art and history based immersive program for homeschool families. Family museum day: a free art program that rotates through museums on the first sunday of every month. The distinguished speaker series, which began in fy2014 is a lecture series pertaining to florida keys art and history. Speakers included. Historic harbor sails: a lecture series aboard the argo navis; topics vary. Happy hour with the historian: a curator led lecture; topics vary.total impact: 120,000+ individuals.
$547,955 spent$137,875 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,275,657.
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.
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 $2.4M to $3.6M (+54%).
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 1% · 2018 22% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 15% · 2024 15% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Michael Gieda
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $17k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL 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
KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 61% · 2019 98% · 2020 54% · 2021 66% · 2022 44% · 2023 59% — 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
33% of KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
55% of KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL 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 $184k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $222k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$38k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$7k
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 KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,642 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS INC ($158,099). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $405,642 in grants to KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS INC is the largest funder on record, with $158,099 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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