Maine · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE
FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,567 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($56,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $14k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $45k
What Friends of Isle Au Haut Lighthouse does
Mission
Restoration and maintenance of the isle au haut lighthouse
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The friend's support is for the renovation and maintenance of the isle au haut lighthouse. Having an operating lighthouse, a beautiful beacon as isle au haut provides safe passage for fisherman, kayakers, and other mariners. Residents, visitors to acadia national park, guest and others all enjoy this monument.
$1,051 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,051.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $18.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE’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 ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 78% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
93% of FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $102k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE
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In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE?
- FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,567 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($56,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $101,567 in grants to FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $56,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF ISLE AU HAUT LIGHTHOUSE 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), 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