Maine · Nonprofit
317 Main St Community Center Inc
317 Main St Community Center Inc (Maine) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,353,154 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,500,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What 317 Main St Community Center Inc does
Mission
317 Main creates an environment for musical enrichment centered on respect, encouragement, and support for musicians of all ages and abilities. 317 Main contributes to the vibrancy of our communities by offering extraordinary music education at our Yarmouth studios, engaging diverse populations through partnership programs, and supporting the creative economy through collaborative partnerships and hiring local artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
317 Main's largest program service is providing music education opportunities for students of all ages and abilities at our Yarmouth studios. In 2025, 317 Main provided private and group lessons, as well as ensembles, classes, workshops, and performance opportunities to more than 1,800 students and music lovers throughout the year. Music students range in age from infant to 90 years old and come to 317 Main from 40+ different towns in southern and central Maine. Focus areas for FY25 included continued growth of our programs, expanding our performance options, and utilizing our Founders Hall more efficiently. We continue to build "Little Roots" early childhood music education program for children ages of birth to 8 years old and our "Deep Roots" program for people aged 55 and older which includes group singing, ensembles, and dance programs. 317 Main also focused on creating more intimate learning opportunities in our free partnership program designed to bring music education and music enrichment opportunities to disadvantaged populations, as well as other individuals of all ages who otherwise would not have access to music. We do this by forging meaningful collaborations and…
$1,828,715 spent$1,429,233 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,828,715.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $4.6M (+99%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of 317 Main St Community Center 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. 3 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $82k → $131k.
6 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 317 Main St Community Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
317 Main St Community Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 317 Main St Community Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 75% · 2019 49% · 2020 29% · 2021 58% · 2022 66% · 2023 19% — 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
36% of 317 Main St Community Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
54% of 317 Main St Community Center Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.0M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M 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
317 Main St Community Center Inc has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like 317 Main St Community Center Inc
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 317 Main St Community Center Inc?
- 317 Main St Community Center Inc (Maine) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,353,154 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,500,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 317 Main St Community Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $4,353,154 in grants to 317 Main St Community Center Inc, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 317 Main St Community Center Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 317 Main St Community Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 40 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