Maine · Nonprofit
ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY
ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,884 to it, the largest being THE ALFRED M SENTER FUND TRUST ($5,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $0
What Arts Are Elementary does
Mission
To spark curiosity, creativity and critical thinking through arts integration in all Brunswick, ME Pre-K - 5 classrooms and raise awareness of the arts in the local community.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide each Brunswick, ME Pre-K - 5 classrooms with its own visiting artist who enhances the classroom experience and curriculum.
$19,000 spentof which $2,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,000.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $45k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lauren Dumont
Executive Director
Board chair
Jennifer Lyford
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $34 → $2k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY’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
ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
56% of ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY?
- ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,884 to it, the largest being THE ALFRED M SENTER FUND TRUST ($5,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $17,884 in grants to ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY?
- THE ALFRED M SENTER FUND TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS ARE ELEMENTARY 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 8 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