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Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village

Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,750 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$139k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$245k
Net assets
$700k
2/10 repeat funders
01What it does

What Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village does

Mission

Formed to provide amenities to main street renovation; later to create public parking for the village. Infrastructure gifted to the town of belgrade

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. No grants or services in 2025

    $0 spent
  2. No grants or services in 2025

    $0 spent
  3. No grants or services in 2025

    $0 spent
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.

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 ($361k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($619k)2018 Revenue 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2025 Revenue 39 ($139k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 113 ($700k)
201720182025
Revenue (39)Expenses (0)Net assets (113)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 2017 to 2018, from $619k to $110k (−82%).

$619k
$110k
$700k
201720182025
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$345k
’17
’18
$139k
’25
356
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.

20172025
Listed38
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $192k → $16k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village’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

Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 62% · 2019 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.

Where its funders are

84% of Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
IL
MA
PA
NJ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village's revenue fell 61% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin100% · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village?
Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,750 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $244,750 in grants to Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village?
HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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