Maine · Nonprofit
ARTVAN
ARTVAN (Maine) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $607,904 to it, the largest being Onion Foundation ($104,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $228k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $608k
- Net assets
- $229k
What Artvan does
Mission
Artvans mission is to promote equity and accessibility by delivering mobile art therapy to for transformational healing to people in their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Artvans largest program is providing year-round mobile art therapy for youth in fifteen low-income neighborhoods in four towns in maine. In 2024, 836 youth participated in more than 400 Artvan therapy sessions. Art therapy is provided by a professional art therapist and a therapeutic arts assistant. Benefits of art therapy include developing healthy social relations, building self-esteem and transforming past traumatic and problematic experiences into present positive choices. Programs are held in neighborhoods where youth live, there is no cost for participants.
$138,276 spent$15,968 earned by the program87% of program spendingCommunity partnership programs are fee-for-service art therapy sessions. Most of these are youth-centered and take place in schools or at community sites. Vulnerable adult populations are also served. Programs may be one-time or occur regularly over several weeks or months. Approximately two dozen programs were held in 2024.
$20,729 spent$15,474 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $159,005.
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 2022 to 2023, from $199k to $273k (+37%).
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Blair Bacon
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $18k → $150k.
4 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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). Top 29 of 30 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
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.
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; 50% 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
93% of ARTVAN's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ARTVAN is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ARTVAN
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTVAN?
- ARTVAN (Maine) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $607,904 to it, the largest being Onion Foundation ($104,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTVAN have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $607,904 in grants to ARTVAN, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTVAN?
- 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.
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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 30 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