Maine · Nonprofit
Elsie & William Viles Foundation
Elsie & William Viles Foundation (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $984,252 to it, the largest being Elsie Viles Irrevocable Trust FBO Elsie & William Viles Foundation ($984,252). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $984k
- Net assets
- $21M
What Elsie & William Viles Foundation does
Program
The Elsie & William Viles Foundation owns and maintains property located on Stone Street in Augusta, Maine that is available for use by not for profit organizations at no charge. Organizations whose mission includes conservation, education, animal protection/welfare, and/or promote and preserve Maine history and culture are given priority in scheduling the space. Activities and programs include seminars, meetings, retreats, workshops, symposia, and fundraising events.
$126,238 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $21M (+17%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $152k → $182k.
From the IRS filings of Elsie & William Viles Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Elsie & William Viles Foundation'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.
Organizations like Elsie & William Viles Foundation
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 Elsie & William Viles Foundation: 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 Elsie & William Viles Foundation?
- Elsie & William Viles Foundation (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $984,252 to it, the largest being Elsie Viles Irrevocable Trust FBO Elsie & William Viles Foundation ($984,252). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Elsie & William Viles Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $984,252 in grants to Elsie & William Viles Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Elsie & William Viles Foundation?
- Elsie Viles Irrevocable Trust FBO Elsie & William Viles Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $984,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Elsie & William Viles Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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