Maine · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (Maine) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,017,520 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($408,040). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Center for Contemporary Art does
Mission
The center for maine contemporary art advances contemporary art in maine through direct engagement with artists and the public, creating exceptional exhibitions and programs that communicate the transformative power of the art of our time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Achieved our mission by presenting compelling exhibitions of contemporary art, offering diverse education classes and workshops for all ages, and through events including lectures, artist talks, and professional development sessions that provided important opportunities for artists and educators and promoted public appreciation of maine and maine-connected contemporary art.
$945,634 spent$40,875 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $945,634.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.5M to $5.2M (−7%).
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 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Jon Chodosh
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $161k → $224k.
9 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
38% 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 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 36% · 2019 45% · 2020 48% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 22% — 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
46% of CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $759k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
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
83% 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 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: 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 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART?
- CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (Maine) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,017,520 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($408,040). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $2,017,520 in grants to CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $408,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 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