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, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Open Library of Richmond 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, $113M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

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

$471M reached 479 arts and culture organizations in Maine, from 1,249 funders. 27% 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

Most of it comes from outside Maine: only 27% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$471M

granted

479

organizations

27%

from in-state

The short version

1,249 funders gave $471M to 479 arts and culture organizations in Maine across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
27% 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 $113M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Open Library of Richmond Inc, at $68M.

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$113M 2Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc$84M 3Open Library of Richmond Inc$26M 4Maine Community Foundation Inc$24M 5Corporation for Public Broadcasting$21M 6Surf Point Foundation Ua 4-7-88$14M 7Harold Alfond Foundation$11M 8Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$10M 9Lunder Foundation$9M 10Davis Family Foundation$5M

Arts and culture organizations in Maine that draw the most

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

469 other arts and culture organizations$174M

Open Library of Richmond Inc$68M Permanent Archive Fund$50M Archive Sustaining Foundation$41M Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation$37M Portland Museum of Art$36M Better World Libraries$19M Surf Point Foundation$14M The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$13M

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, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Open Library of Richmond 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
73% 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, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Open Library of Richmond 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, $113M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Maine?: $471M reached 479 arts and culture organizations in Maine, from 1,249 funders. 27% 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 unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; 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.