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ARTVAN

ARTVAN (Maine) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,904 to it, the largest being The Onion Foundation ($104,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$228k
Revenue FY2024
28
Funders on record
$603k
Grants received
$229k
Net assets
15/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%

Against its field

ARTVAN is better cushioned than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($136k) Expenses 100 ($122k) Net assets 100 ($77k)2018 Revenue 115 ($156k) Expenses 118 ($145k) Net assets 115 ($88k)2019 Revenue 129 ($176k) Expenses 117 ($143k) Net assets 157 ($121k)2020 Revenue 98 ($133k) Expenses 107 ($131k) Net assets 160 ($123k)2021 Revenue 158 ($215k) Expenses 127 ($155k) Net assets 237 ($182k)2022 Revenue 149 ($203k) Expenses 144 ($176k) Net assets 253 ($194k)2023 Revenue 222 ($301k) Expenses 188 ($230k) Net assets 345 ($265k)2024 Revenue 168 ($228k) Expenses 216 ($265k) Net assets 298 ($229k)
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Revenue (168)Expenses (216)Net assets (298)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 16% · 2022 5% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

77% of ARTVAN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
17
$12k
18
$32k
19
$2k
20
$59k
21
$27k
22
$71k
23
$36k
24
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $18k → $150k.

3 of 28 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 ARTVAN’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

ARTVAN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

28% 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 ARTVAN.

17%
largest funder
41%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 33% · 2019 39% · 2020 60% · 2021 24% · 2022 31% · 2023 23%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

67% of ARTVAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

93% of ARTVAN's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
NH
IL
WI
NY
CO
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 28 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ARTVAN

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maine

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 16%Fundraising 24%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

63%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTVAN: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ARTVAN?
ARTVAN (Maine) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,904 to it, the largest being The Onion Foundation ($104,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARTVAN have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $602,904 in grants to ARTVAN, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARTVAN?
The Onion Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $104,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARTVAN 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing