Maine · Nonprofit
FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC
FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,223 to it, the largest being FRANCIS M MALCOLM INSTITUTE ($104,723). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Davis Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Libra Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way of Aroostooklocal
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
80% of FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $105k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC’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
FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 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.
Where its funders are
73% of FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC'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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Davis Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 127 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Libra Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of AroostooklocalME · funds 14 organizations near you
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wyeth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morton-Kelly Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spellissy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Skerryvore Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Granite Point Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hugh Gregg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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 FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC: 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 FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC?
- FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,223 to it, the largest being FRANCIS M MALCOLM INSTITUTE ($104,723). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $182,223 in grants to FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC?
- FRANCIS M MALCOLM INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $104,723 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANCIS MALCOLM SCIENCE CENTER INC 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing