Maine · Nonprofit
Brunswick Downtown Association
Brunswick Downtown Association (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,475 to it, the largest being Bowdoin College ($166,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $373k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $217k
- Net assets
- $231k
What Brunswick Downtown Association does
Mission
The mission is to enhance the vitality and appeal of downtown Brunswick, Maine as a center of business activity, to increase the general physical and psychological appeal of the downtown, and to promote the cultural, retail, service, and economic interests of the membership.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Brunswick Downtown Association BDA is a not-for-profit entity organized as a 501C 3. The mission of the group is to enhance the vitality and appeal of downtown Brunswick as a thriving center of business activity to increase the general physical and psychological appeal of downtown, and to promote the cultural, retail, service, and economic interests of our membership. Some of the accomplishments of the BDA include education of the extended community on locally related historical figures and events creating awareness to membership of opportunities to assist in community improvements sponsorship of community events that regularly include other local nonprofit organizations such as Music on the Mall concerts, family activities such as Maine Street Celebrates, the Christmas tree lighting and arrival of Santa Claus, holiday coloring contest, and Home for the Holidays coordination of efforts to buy new benches for Maine Street sidewalks advocating solutions for additional parking and promotion of opportunities to improve the creative economy in Brunswick. Services that are provided include advocating critical business success issues within the Town of Brunswick, disseminating…
$230,382 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $230,382.
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 2019 to 2020, from $77k to $135k (+76%).
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 29% · 2022 26% · 2023 42% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of Brunswick Downtown Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Brian Robinson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of Brunswick Downtown Association’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
Brunswick Downtown Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 Brunswick Downtown Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 57% · 2021 58% · 2022 77% · 2023 84% — 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
100% of Brunswick Downtown Association's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Brunswick Downtown Association's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Brunswick Downtown Association
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Brunswick Downtown Association: 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 Brunswick Downtown Association?
- Brunswick Downtown Association (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,475 to it, the largest being Bowdoin College ($166,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Brunswick Downtown Association have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $217,475 in grants to Brunswick Downtown Association, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Brunswick Downtown Association?
- Bowdoin College is the largest funder on record, with $166,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Brunswick Downtown Association 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 5 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