Maine · Nonprofit
FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE
FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,860 to it, the largest being MARSTINE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $409k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What First Amendment Museum at the Gannett House does
Mission
The mission is to examine the history and promote the practice of understanding the first amendment of the us constitution. The gannett family's involvement sets the stage of examining freedoms around the world.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
The organization is operating gannet house first amendment museum. The mission is to examine the history and promote the practice of understanding the first amendment of the us constitution. The gannet family's involvement sets the stage of examining freedoms around the world.
$268,716 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $1.0M to $1.5M (+44%).
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: 2019 100% · 2020 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
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.
Chief executive
Genie Gannett
President/exec director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $18k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT 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
FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2020 50% · 2021 67% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 13% 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
FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE's revenue fell 17% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE?
- FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,860 to it, the largest being MARSTINE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $94,860 in grants to FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE?
- MARSTINE FAMILY FOUNDATION 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 FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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