Maine · Nonprofit
Arundel Historical Society
Arundel Historical Society (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,668 to it, the largest being The William J J Gordon Family Foundation ($11,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $243k
What Arundel Historical Society does
Mission
Education
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Honor RollAdditional veterans data collected during 2019. The names of Arundel veterans were read aloud at Memorial Day ceremony.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $278k to $276k (−1%).
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.
76% of Arundel Historical Society’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $250 → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Arundel Historical Society’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
Arundel Historical Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 91% · 2022 96% · 2023 74% — 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
Arundel Historical Society draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $418 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Arundel Historical Society runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,361 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,361 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like Arundel Historical Society
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
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Arundel Historical Society?
- Arundel Historical Society (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,668 to it, the largest being The William J J Gordon Family Foundation ($11,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arundel Historical Society have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,668 in grants to Arundel Historical Society, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arundel Historical Society?
- The William J J Gordon Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arundel Historical Society 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 FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), and the filings of 3 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