Florida · Nonprofit
ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL
ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,061 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $915k
What St Johns County Cultural Council does
Mission
To support local artists and arts organizations and to promote st. Johns county as a premier destination for cultural travelers, ensuring that the lives of both residents and visitors are enriched through art, culture, history, and heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The st. Johns cultural council ("sjcc") has an active agreement with st. Johns county to administer the portion of the county's tourist development tax revenue designated for support of arts, culture, and heritage programming. Accomplishments included 1) revising the county's prior grant guidelines to better comply with the florida statutes and increase support for arts, culture and heritage organizations providing year-round programming, 2) hosting grants and technical assistance workshops, and 3) maintaining a strategic marketing plan for promotion of arts, culture and heritage activities funded with tourist development tax funds. Grants were reviewed and awarded for current fiscal year. Actual payments of the grants are administered by st. Johns county.
$966,583 spent$1,454,780 earned by the program66% of program spendingThe sjcc provides grants and funding for contractual services to local arts organizations and individuals. Funding for these programs comes from the sale of "state of the arts" license plates and individuals. Program funding promotes art education, development of public art, and increased access to arts, culture and heritage activities for residents of and visitors to st. Johns county.
$499,133 spent$22,851 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,465,716.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $653k to $210k (−68%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 14% · 2024 26% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5 → $28k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL’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
ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $900k on record.
- Department of the Interior$800k
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL?
- ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,061 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $118,061 in grants to ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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