Maine · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY
FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,350 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($220,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- United Way of Androscoggin County Incshared funders
- The Lois Lenski Covey Foundationportfolio match
- The Imperial Charitable Trustportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
98% of FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $95k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY’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 VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 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.
Where its funders are
90% of FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY'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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Androscoggin County Incshared fundersME · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- The Lois Lenski Covey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Imperial Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renee B Fisher Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Preston & Catharine White Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Henry Eldred Jr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Society Daughters of the American Revolutionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fred L Hartley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deld Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winfield C Cook & Isabelle K Cook Charitable Foundation Incportfolio 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.
Government funding FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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.
Where the money goes
7% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY?
- FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,350 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($220,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $245,350 in grants to FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY?
- Elmina B Sewall Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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