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The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc

The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc (Florida) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,048,939 to it, the largest being CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC ($613,185). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.6M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$4.4M
15/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 89%
01What it does

What The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc does

Mission

The mission of the Jacksonville Historical Society is to strengthen citizenship through public history education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Jacksonville Historical Society, founded in 1929, has since 2022 done business as the Jacksonville History Center, serving all the people of Floridas largest city. It does so by collecting, preserving and widely sharing the evidence of the people, places and events of the past, by maintaining the only research collection devoted entirely to Jacksonville, by hosting an oral history program focused on the people of Jacksonville, by hosting an ongoing series of public educational programs with authoritative speakers, by supporting history education in local public and private schools, colleges and universities, and by advocating for the value of historic preservation.In the 204 years since Jacksonvilles establishment, it has experienced major events related to banking, politics, law, industry, architecture, sports, medicine, the military (especially the U.S. Navy), shipping, aviation, immigration, and more. As the center of business, politics and transportation over land and by sea, Jacksonville stood for much the 19th and 20th centuries as Floridas most influential city. In the 21st century it continues to be the states largest city in terms of both size and population. It has…

    $571,461 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $571,461.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($178k) Expenses 100 ($245k) Net assets 100 ($923k)2018 Revenue 120 ($214k) Expenses 116 ($284k) Net assets 93 ($855k)2019 Revenue 142 ($253k) Expenses 125 ($307k) Net assets 87 ($802k)2020 Revenue 144 ($257k) Expenses 112 ($274k) Net assets 85 ($784k)2021 Revenue 230 ($409k) Expenses 174 ($428k) Net assets 83 ($766k)2022 Revenue 720 ($1.3M) Expenses 353 ($865k) Net assets 128 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 506 ($900k) Expenses 280 ($687k) Net assets 164 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 450 ($800k) Expenses 247 ($606k) Net assets 185 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 2038 ($3.6M) Expenses 363 ($890k) Net assets 482 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (2038)Expenses (363)Net assets (482)

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 $1.8M to $4.6M (+148%).

$972k
$893k
$860k
$955k
$1.0M
$1.3M
$1.8M
$4.6M
$5.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2018 22% · 2019 18% · 2020 18% · 2021 20% · 2022 40% · 2023 12% · 2024 18% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$67k
’17
−$70k
’18
−$53k
’19
−$17k
’20
−$19k
’21
$414k
’22
$213k
’23
$193k
’24
$2.7M
’25
8.0
months of
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.

Chief executive

Alan Bliss

CEO

Board chair

Kristanna Barnes

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed201816171415151113
Joined·+0+1+6+3+5+0+1+3
No longer listed·23564051
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $38k → $312k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 The Jacksonville Historical Society 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

The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

65% 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 The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc.

30%
largest funder
76%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 69% · 2019 43% · 2020 46% · 2021 38% · 2022 31% · 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

58% of The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

100% of The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.

NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $688k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc

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In Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 24%Fundraising 12%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc?
The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc (Florida) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,048,939 to it, the largest being CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC ($613,185). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,048,939 in grants to The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc?
CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $613,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Jacksonville Historical Society 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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