Florida · Nonprofit
LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC
LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,052 to it, the largest being MOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $216k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Lake Wales History Museum Inc does
Mission
The mission of the lake wales history museum is to collect, preserve and share the heritage of lake wales.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide educational opportunities that connect all ages to local history.
$216,336 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $216,336.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $115k to $43k (−63%).
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: 2022 33% · 2023 95% · 2024 86% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
110% of LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM 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
LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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 LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 50% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC?
- LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,052 to it, the largest being MOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,052 in grants to LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM INC?
- MOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE WALES HISTORY MUSEUM 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.
Play a game about who funds Lake Wales History Museum →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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