Maine · Nonprofit
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,000 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organizationlocal
- Angelo Donghia Foundation Incportfolio match
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $45k → $48k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts’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
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts'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 $60k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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.
- Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting OrganizationlocalME · funds 58 organizations near you
- Angelo Donghia Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation For Excellence in Higher Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Negro College Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Learning Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- EL Craig Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Maya Angelou Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ann C and John a Henry III Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Heineman-Russell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Koch 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.
Government funding Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $524k on record.
- Department of Education$524k
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 Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts: 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 Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts?
- Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,000 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $185,000 in grants to Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts 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 2017–2025), 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