Maine · Nonprofit
Cultural Alliance of Maine
Cultural Alliance of Maine (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,150 to it, the largest being Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Cultural Alliance of Maine does
Mission
Advance the visibility and capacity of M
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Communications and Outreach: Creating impactful messaging, press releases, and outreach materials to support cultural initiatives in Maine.
$21,710 spent22% of program spendingData Collection and Analysis: Conducting comprehensive data collection efforts to strengthen advocacy, guide funding decisions, and measure the cultural sectors impact.
$21,710 spent22% of program spendingProgram and Event Planning: Organizing and facilitating events and programs to unify Maines cultural sector, including convenings and collaborative gatherings.
$54,275 spent56% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,695.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $56k to $53k (−5%).
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.
91% of Cultural Alliance of Maine’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 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Mollie Cashwell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Cultural Alliance of Maine’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
Cultural Alliance of Maine leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
“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
86% of Cultural Alliance of Maine's grant income comes from Maine funders.
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
Cultural Alliance of Maine receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Cultural Alliance of Maine
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cultural Alliance of Maine: 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 Cultural Alliance of Maine?
- Cultural Alliance of Maine (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,150 to it, the largest being Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cultural Alliance of Maine have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $23,150 in grants to Cultural Alliance of Maine.
- Who is the largest funder of Cultural Alliance of Maine?
- Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cultural Alliance of Maine 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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