Florida · Nonprofit
THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER
THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER (Florida) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,275,737 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($1,235,296). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $19M
What The Tampa Bay History Center does
Mission
Discovering, preserving, and learning from our region's past to inform our common future. The history center includes three floors of permanent and temporary exhibition galleries focusing on 12,000 years of florida history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Tampa Bay History Center, inc. (tbhc) was incorporated as the history museum of tampa/hillsborough county, inc. Its name was changed in 1993 to better reflect its mission and purpose. Tbhc was organized for the purpose of establishing facilities for interpretation of materials and artifacts of area history; to foster dissemination and understanding of area history through educational and public outreach programs; and to encourage an interest in history through cooperation with other historical and cultural organizations and educational institutions.(continued on schedule o)tbhc is a non-profit educational institution in downtown tampa, florida that seeks to preserve and teach the remarkable history of the tampa bay area. Tbhc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and is funded in part by the hillsborough county board of county commissioners and the city of tampa.an academic partnership has been established by the history center with the university of south florida - funded by an endowment. The endowment's income underwrites public education programs and activities designed jointly by tbhc and the florida studies center based at the usf library. Other education partners include…
$3,618,013 spent$941,716 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,618,013.
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 2017 to 2018, from $13M to $34M (+171%).
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 20% · 2018 4% · 2019 14% · 2020 39% · 2021 42% · 2022 22% · 2023 29% · 2024 16% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
C J Roberts
President & CEO (thru 4/30/25)
Board chair
Chris Alvarez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $416k → $143k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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: $7.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Tampa Bay History Center Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 50% · 2019 37% · 2020 29% · 2021 54% · 2022 45% · 2023 38% — 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
55% of THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
96% of THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER'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 6 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
THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $100
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 THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Tampa Bay History Center Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER: 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 THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER?
- THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER (Florida) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,275,737 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($1,235,296). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,275,737 in grants to THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,235,296 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER 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 39 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