Florida · Nonprofit
SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,124,437 to it, the largest being ROBERT C & JANE E HOLDER FOUNDATION ($592,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The United Way of Lee County Inclocal
- Sea Turtle Conservancyportfolio match
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 7% · 2018 1% · 2019 9% · 2020 6% · 2021 2% · 2022 5% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $85k → $698k.
16 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 85% · 2019 26% · 2020 34% · 2021 21% · 2022 33% · 2023 36% — 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 SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
68% of SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 44 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The United Way of Lee County InclocalFL · funds 131 organizations near you
- Sea Turtle Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ocean Reef Conservation Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sharkey Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hough Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Education Foundation of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association InclocalFL · funds 39 organizations near you
- Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida InclocalFL · funds 101 organizations near you
- Cape Coral Community FoundationlocalFL · funds 33 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $257k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$136k
- National Science Foundation$121k
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 SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
73% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
- SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,124,437 to it, the largest being ROBERT C & JANE E HOLDER FOUNDATION ($592,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $3,124,437 in grants to SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
- ROBERT C & JANE E HOLDER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $592,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 44funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing