Florida · Nonprofit
THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC
THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,700 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE AND MARY JO SANDERS FOUN INC ($23,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Thomas Edison & Henry Ford Winter Estates Inc does
Mission
The mission is to educate the public and inspire an inventive spirit by interpreting and preserving the innovations, legacies, artifacts, gardens, homes, laboratory, and other structures of thomas edison and henry ford, emphasizing florida history, science, horticulture, and the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary exempt purposes of the organization is the conservation, management and education program presented to the general public of the thomas edison and henry ford winter estates which includes 20 acres of historical gardens, 9 historic buildings, a museum and the original 1927 edison botanic lab. The property has been designated by the national register of historic places and won the top restoration award from the national trust for historic preservation in 2008. It has won the florida award for landscape restoration for work in the heritage gardens. The site is also a florida historic landmark, an original save america's treasures and a restore america project of the national trust. The property is open daily year-round for the purpose of providing tours, lectures, classes, research and other program experiences for the general public, school and special groups. The annual visitation is approximately 250,000. All revenues are directed to the preservation, conservation and interpretation activities of the organization. There are approximately 100 paid professional staff and 150 volunteers who help carry out the educational and conservation activities of the organization. In…
$4,633,829 spent$4,173,775 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,633,829.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.3M to $6.6M (+25%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC’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. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES 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
THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
93% of THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES 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. 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
THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC?
- THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,700 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE AND MARY JO SANDERS FOUN INC ($23,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $31,700 in grants to THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC?
- THE GEORGE AND MARY JO SANDERS FOUN INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES 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 4 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