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Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House

Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,466 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($245,022). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$17k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$438k
Net assets
$291k
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House does

Mission

Restoration & preservation of historically significant building in Portland, Maine.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. On-going architectural studies of historically significant meeting house building. Preliminary capital campaign planning. Structural repairs/improvements to stabilize building. Architectural digs & research. Interior and exterior restoration.

    $55,708 spent$57,370 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,708.

02The 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 ($105k) Expenses 100 ($105k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2018 Revenue 146 ($153k) Expenses 117 ($122k) Net assets 382 ($42k)2019 Revenue 118 ($123k) Expenses 74 ($77k) Net assets 800 ($88k)2020 Revenue 334 ($350k) Expenses 167 ($174k) Net assets 2398 ($265k)2021 Revenue 246 ($258k) Expenses 163 ($171k) Net assets 3188 ($352k)2022 Revenue 55 ($57k) Expenses 66 ($69k) Net assets 3087 ($341k)2023 Revenue 16 ($17k) Expenses 63 ($66k) Net assets 2642 ($291k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (16)Expenses (63)Net assets (2642)Peer revenue range

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 $88k to $265k (+200%).

$15k
$42k
$88k
$265k
$352k
$341k
$291k
2017201820192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$378
’17
$31k
’18
$46k
’19
$176k
’20
$87k
’21
−$11k
’22
−$49k
’23
53
months of
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.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed10131211121110
Joined·+3+1+0+4+1+1
No longer listed·021322
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $20k.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House’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

Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House.

56%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 70% · 2021 77% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.

“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

0% of Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 FY2022, 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

88% of Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $54k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maine funders.

ME

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

’17
’20
’21
’22
Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $384k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−288% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve52.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−26% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

Government funding Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.

Federal$1.7M
grants $1.7Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.7M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House?
Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,466 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($245,022). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $438,466 in grants to Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $245,022 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 10 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