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MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC (Florida) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,463,641 to it, the largest being CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC ($3,247,026). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Museum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc does
Mission
The museum of science and history of jacksonville ("mosh") inspires the joy of lifelong learning by bringing to life the sciences and regional history.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Education and programs - the museum also served the community by hosting various programs including summer camps, early learner programs, outreach programs, and celebrations as part of its mission to be a cultural, educational and recreational resource for the community. In total the museum served 32,844 people in fy 2025-2026. These included 5,254 school children served through field trips and 351 campers through summer camp programs, 2,150 participants in public community programs, and 7,445 participants in educational outreaches and off-site engagements in 16 counties across north florida and southeast georgia. 843 students visited the museum in fy 2025-2026 from title 1 schools, and an additional 1.803 title 1 students through school outreaches.
$1,000,800 spent$154,399 earned by the program42% of program spendingExhibits - the museum has been dedicated to improving the quality of life for northeast florida for over 80 years by collecting, preserving and actively interpreting the region's cultural and natural history. Before closing the facility in september 2025, the museum recorded 23,244 paid admissions, with a total of 32,844 served by programs and events in fy 2025-2026. The museum team is focused on planning for the new facility to be built in downtown jacksonville during the next three years.
$807,793 spent$302,698 earned by the program34% of program spendingPlanetarium - in october 2010, the museum constructed a digital planetarium to supplement programming to further its mission of inspiring the joy of learning by bringing to life the sciences and regional history of north florida. Before closing in september 2025, the museum presented live and produced shows to the public and school groups in fy 2025-2026.
$551,207 spent$15,645 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,359,800.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $16M to $31M (+96%).
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: 2018 16% · 2019 12% · 2020 5% · 2021 18% · 2022 8% · 2023 9% · 2024 3% · 2025 6% · 2026 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $302k → $1.4M.
9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% 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 MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 83% · 2019 42% · 2020 32% · 2021 47% · 2022 50% · 2023 49% — 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
46% of MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
82% of MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE 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. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 62 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 62 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Government funding MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$22k
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 MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE 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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC?
- MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC (Florida) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,463,641 to it, the largest being CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC ($3,247,026). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $8,463,641 in grants to MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE INC?
- CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,247,026 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE 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 FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), and the filings of 45 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