Nonprofit · EIN 59-6198589
JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Tax-exempt · JACKSONVILLE, FL 32202
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 30, 2025 | 990 | $3,622,703 | $889,801 | $2,732,902 | $5,083,161 | $634,650 | $4,448,511 |
| September 30, 2024 | 990 | $799,572 | $606,247 | $193,325 | $4,569,187 | $2,858,934 | $1,710,253 |
| September 30, 2023 | 990 | $900,134 | $687,042 | $213,092 | $1,844,672 | $327,744 | $1,516,928 |
| September 30, 2022 | 990 (amended) | $1,279,821 | $865,451 | $414,370 | $1,297,143 | $116,969 | $1,180,174 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $3,449,078
- of which government grants
- $2,679,578
- Membership dues
- $37,599
- Program service revenue
- $37,804
- Investment income
- $16,389
- Net rental income
- -$11,239
- Net income from fundraising events
- $127,906
- Net income from sales of inventory
- $2,765
- Other revenue
- $119,432
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $121,096
- Other salaries and wages
- $267,263
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $429,621
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Legal fees
- $1,290
- Accounting fees
- $27,620
- Occupancy
- $46,038
- Travel
- $262
- Depreciation
- $107,179
- Program services (functional)
- $571,461
- Management and general (functional)
- $214,106
- Fundraising (functional)
- $104,234
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $4,569,187
- Total assets, end of year
- $5,083,161
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $634,650
- Net assets, end of year
- $4,448,511
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $4,214,016
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $4,401,663
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $46,848
- Gross unrelated business income
- -$8,474
- Gross receipts
- $3,711,425
- Employees
- 11
- Year formed
- 1966
- State of legal domicile
- FL
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Bliss | CEO Officer | 40 | $121,096 |
| Kristanna Barnes | Chairman Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| G David Auchter | Imm. Past Chair Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JF Bryan IV | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Liza Barnett Emmet | Secretary Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| David Jamison | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Bruce Shealy | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Fred Kent | Board Member Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| William H Bishop | Chair-elect Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Nancy S Broner | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Veronica Frazier | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Courtney Gumbinger | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jeff Thompson | Board Member Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended September 30, 2024: 11 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAN J BLISS | CEO Officer | 40 | $99,692 |
| KRISTANNA B BARNES | CHAIR - ELEC Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| WILLIAM H BISHOP | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| LIZA BARNETT EMMET | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| FREDERICK H KENT III ESQ | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| VERONICA FRAZIER | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| G DAVID AUCHTER IV | CHAIR Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| J F BRYAN IV | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| DAVID J JAMISON PHD | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| R BRUCE SHEALY | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| JEFF THOMPSON | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended September 30, 2023: 15 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAN J BLISS | CEO Officer | 40 | $79,981 |
| KRISTANNA B BARNES | CHAIR - ELEC Trustee or director, Officer | – | $0 |
| WILLIAM H BISHOP | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | – | $0 |
| BETTY BURNEY | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | – | $0 |
| REV CANON DR J ALLISON DEFOOR | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | – | $0 |
| DAVID CHAUNCEY ESQ | IMMEDIATE PA Trustee or director, Officer | – | $0 |
| FREDERICK H KENT III ESQ | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | – | $0 |
| HONORABLE GARY FLOWER | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | – | $0 |
| VERONICA FRAZIER | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | – | $0 |
| G DAVID AUCHTER IV | CHAIR Trustee or director, Officer | – | $0 |
| J F BRYAN IV | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | – | $0 |
| LAWRENCE KANTER MD | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | – | $0 |
| DAVID J JAMISON PHD | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | – | $0 |
| R BRUCE SHEALY | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | – | $0 |
| JEFF THOMPSON | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | – | $0 |
990 for the year ended September 30, 2022: 15 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAN J BLISS | CEO Officer | 40 | $75,384 |
| KRISTANNA B BARNES | CHAIR - ELEC Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| WILLIAM H BISHOP | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| BETTY BURNEY | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| REV CANON DR J ALLISON DEFOOR | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| DAVID CHAUNCEY ESQ | IMMEDIATE PA Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| FREDERICK H KENT III ESQ | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| HONORABLE GARY FLOWER | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| VERONICA FRAZIER | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| G DAVID AUCHTER IV | CHAIR Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| J F BRYAN IV | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| LAWRENCE KANTER MD | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| DAVID J JAMISON PHD | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| R BRUCE SHEALY | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| JEFF THOMPSON | DIRECTORR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 314 PALMETTO ST, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32202-2619
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Alan Bliss, 314 Palmetto Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202
- Signed the 990
- Alan Bliss, CEO
- Phone
- (904) 655-0064
- Website
- www.jaxhistory.org
- Return prepared by
- HOWARD & COMPANY CPAS PA
Mission
The mission of the Jacksonville Historical Society is to strengthen citizenship through public history education.
Program accomplishments
- 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 long been diverse, demographically and in terms of its political economy. For all those reasons, the motto of the Jacksonville History Center is, "One City, Many Stories."The Jacksonville History Center owns a 1.2-acre campus in downtown Jacksonville's sports and entertainment district, on the bank of Hogans Creek and immediately behind the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. There the JHC has recently completed a $3.9 million renovation of a 106-year-old, three-story factory which is being adapted to house galleries and exhibits, a performance and event venue, and a much-expanded collections space. The campus is also home to the ca. 1878 St. Luke's Hospital, the first building in Florida designed and built to be a hospital, and the oldest building in downtown Jacksonville to survive the Great Fire of 1901. Also in the sports and entertainment district, the JHC manages two city-owned properties, the ca. 1888 St. Andrews church, a deconsecrated Episcopal sanctuary now used for special events, and the adjacent James E. Merrill Museum House, a restored and furnished 19th century home available for narrated educational tours. Through these properties the JHC is faithful to its advocacy for preservation and adaptive reuse of historic places.The JHC collaborates with the City of Jacksonville and with neighborhood preservation organizations, smaller local museums, affinity groups, businesses and nonprofits to support preservation and history education.The JHC also convenes a citywide network of organizations, the Jacksonville History Consortium, which strengthens the sharing of resources and best practices in the field of public history. Speakers from the History Center routinely present at meetings of local civic organizations, discussing the evidence of people and events in Jacksonville's past and fostering awareness of the power of historical knowledge. The History Center's digital newsletter, "Jacksonville History Matters," reaches an audience of 4500 and its content is regularly published by Jacksonville.com. Other local media channels rely on the Jacksonville Histroy Center for authoritative, evidence-based information and interpretation of Jacksonville's past. The archives and collections of the Jacksonville History Center includemanuscripts, letters, journals, maps, architectural drawings, objects,ephemera, recordings and over 100,000 historic photographs, all devoted toJacksonville, Florida. No other collection is singularly focused on thehistory of this sprawling, complicated city and its people. Donations offresh material appear continuously, to be processed, catalogued,appropriately conserved, archived and accessioned by credentialed staffmembers, for use by researchers who visit in person or virtually.The Jacksonville History Center receives support from corporations,foundations, individual donors and annually renewing members, as well asfrom a competitive cultural services grant funded by local government andadministered each year by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.Additional revenue comes from fundraising events, merchandise sales andspace rentals. In 2022 the JHC launched an agency endowment fund at theCommunity Foundation for Northeast Florida, the balance in which grows eachyear through additional gifts. In 2025, the Organization launched a capital campaign to continue its mission.Expenses $571,461
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in September, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | September 30, 2026 | February 16, 2027 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | September 30, 2025 | February 17, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | September 30, 2024 | February 18, 2025 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 59-6198589
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (509(a)(2))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1967
- Accounting year ends
- September
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $5,083,161
- Income (IRS master file)
- $3,711,425
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | September 2025 | $3,622,703 | $889,801 | $5,083,161 | XML |
| 990-T | September 2025 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2024 | $799,572 | $606,247 | $4,569,187 | XML |
| 990-T | September 2024 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2023 | $900,134 | $687,042 | $1,844,672 | XML |
| 990-T | September 2023 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2022 | $1,279,821 | $865,451 | $1,297,143 | XML |
| 990-T | September 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | September 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | September 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 59-6198589).
Questions about JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
- What is the EIN of JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC is 59-6198589.
- Is JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1967.
- Are donations to JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending September 30, 2026) is due February 16, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended September 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- The 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 names Alan Bliss.
- Who are the officers and directors of JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- The 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 lists 13 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $121,096 (Alan Bliss, CEO).
- How much revenue does JACKSONVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $3,622,703, expenses of $889,801 and total assets of $5,083,161 at year end.
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