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TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC
TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,865 to it, the largest being ROTARY DISTRICT 6940 FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $306k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science Inc does
Mission
The tallahassee museum inspires people to transform their lives, community and the world through an enhanced understanding of our region's natural and cultural environments.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The tallahassee museum is a regional museum of history and natural science, consisting of 52 acres and 24 historical and contemporary buildings. The site includes permanent and temporary exhibits and facilities for educational programs and presentations, special events and support services. The museum serves over 141,000 people annually, with approximately 130,000 visitors on-site and 11,000 through its off-site and outreach programs.
$2,244,494 spent$69,146 earned by the program94% of program spendingThe museum maintains exhibits and collections in the museum and on the grounds. These include a living collection of native animals exhibited in natural habitat enclosures and cultural and historical exhibits.
$97,495 spent$904,429 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe museum also runs summer nature and history camp programs, early childhood/preschool classes, and numerous other educational demonstrations, presentations, classes, and tours during the year. Over 6,500 people participate in approximately 200 programs presented by the museum each year.
$35,294 spent$339,370 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,377,283.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.0M to $4.2M (+39%).
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 18% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 30% · 2021 33% · 2022 16% · 2023 17% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $219k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE 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
TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 45% · 2022 65% · 2023 91% — 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
60% of TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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 TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE 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. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC?
- TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,865 to it, the largest being ROTARY DISTRICT 6940 FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $305,865 in grants to TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC?
- ROTARY DISTRICT 6940 FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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