Maine · Nonprofit
GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,466 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $479k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $194k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Gardiner Library Association does
Mission
To provide for the perpetual maintenance of the gardiner public library and to improve and increase the public library within.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To support the operations of the library by providing circulation materials, media, information systems and the cost of professional conferences for library personnel. The Gardiner Library Association owns, maintains, and improves the library building and allows the city of gardiner to use the building as a public library at no charge.
$29,093 spentof which $29,093 as grants17% of program spendingTo maintain and improve the physical structure of the library to keep pace with service needs and technological change. The gardiner library maintains a special collection of the history of the lower kennebec valley. This collection is stored in the community archives room and contains many rare and wonderful items from gardiner's history.
$141,232 spent83% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $170,325.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $2.8M (+57%).
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: 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $14k → $27k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’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
GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 95% · 2019 91% · 2020 95% · 2021 47% · 2022 95% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“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
20% of GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
67% of GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
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.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: 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 GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION?
- GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,466 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $194,466 in grants to GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION?
- STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 14 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