How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Maine?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Maine, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Open Library of Richmond Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maine from out of state.

Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Maine?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Maine, $18M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Maine?

$143M reached 275 arts and culture organizations in Maine, from 698 funders. 41% came from funders also based in Maine.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Maine · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in Maine

$143M reached 275 arts and culture organizations in Maine, from 698 funders, with no single one dominating.

$143M

granted

275

organizations

41%

from in-state

The short version

698 funders gave $143M to 275 arts and culture organizations in Maine across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
41% of that came from funders also based in Maine; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in Maine is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $18M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Portland Museum of Art, at $22M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in Maine

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Maine, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$18M 2Open Library of Richmond Inc$17M 3Maine Community Foundation Inc$10M 4Libra Foundation$8M 5Corporation for Public Broadcasting$7M 6Harold Alfond Foundation$5M 7National Park Foundation$4M 8Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$4M 9Surf Point Foundation Ua 4-7-88$3M 10Fidelity Foundation$3M

Arts and culture organizations in Maine that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

265 other arts and culture organizations$58M

Portland Museum of Art$22M Better World Libraries$17M Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation$11M Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters$9M Pineland Farms Inc$8M

How to find arts and culture funders in Maine

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Start with the funders already active in Maine
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Maine are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Open Library of Richmond Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
59% of arts and culture money in Maine comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Maine.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Maine?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Maine, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Open Library of Richmond Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maine from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Maine?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Maine, $18M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Maine?: $143M reached 275 arts and culture organizations in Maine, from 698 funders. 41% came from funders also based in Maine.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.