Maine · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,281 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $968k
What International Artists Manifest does
Mission
Our mission is to Remember the Artist. IAM takes on and cares for the works of brilliant, under-represented artists after they pass on. IAM provides secure, intelligent care of artists' works while documenting, positioning and promoting each collection. IAM is invested in educating the public about the works of under-represented artists, ensuring this significant cultural contribution is not lost in future generations. IAM offers public access to each collection through our digital archive and exhibition efforts. IAM also seeks out exhibition opportunities in conjunction with other arts organizations, and pursues scholarly publications and films on each of our artists.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Exhibition-Carlo Pittore-Public Education. This program was developed to share Carlo Pittore's artwork and ephemera with the general public. IAM worked collaboratively with a local gallery to mount an epic retrospective exhibition focused on Pittore's exploration of identity as medium. We hosted a free public dinner to celebrate the artist and to welcome the local community into our space. We also exhibited video footage of Pittore that hadn't been seen since the 1970s. The exhibit was covered in the press and generated rave reviews from professionals, scholars, artists, and the general public.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Exhibition-Carlo Pittore-Public Education. This program was developed to share Carlo Pittore's artwork and ephemera with the general public. IAM worked collaboratively with a local gallery to mount an epic retrospective exhibition focused on Pittore's exploration of identity as medium. We hosted a public dinner to celebrate the artist and to welcome the local community into our space. We also exhibited video footage of Pittore that hadn't been seen since the 1970s. The exhibit was covered in the press and generated rave reviews from professionals, scholars, artists, and the general public.
$42,178 spent51% of program spendingExhibition - Josefina Auslender - Public education. This program was developed to pair the work of Josefina Auslender with a local contemporary artist from a much younger generation - cementing the connection between her work and the current generation. The selected works focused on loss, memory and the processing of tragedy. IAM worked collaboratively with a local gallery to mount a two-person exhibition of the artists' work, inviting curators, scholars, and the general public. Sadly, this exhibition coincided with a terrible shooting here in our Maine community. IAM was able to extend the duration of the exhibition to offer a space of solace for those folks in the grieving process.
$23,432 spent28% of program spendingArchiving Project: Carlo Pittore - Public Education. This program was developed to inventory, document and preserve the life's work of Carlo Pittore, a male, Jewish, gay artist who was instrumental in the fight for artists' rights. Pittore was a significant figure in the mail art movement, an influential teacher, activist, and painter. IAM is working to ensure his life's work is properly documented and digitized, offering the public unprecedented access to his collection. Pittore maintained correspondence with hundreds of active artists during his lifetime, including Keith Haring, E.F. Higgins, Buster Cleveland, John Held, Jr., Lucy Lippard, Coco Gordon and more. This program will result in an updated appraisal of Pittore's collection, a digitized archive of his most significant artworks and correspondences, and a full inventory of the collection. This year we documented and archived 1,000 works on paper, adding them to our online database.
$11,247 spent14% of program spendingPart III.4d: Our other program services include a documentary film project developed to educate the public about the life and work of Josefina Auslender, a female, Jewish, Latin American artist who immigrated to Cape Elizabeth, Maine from Argentina. Auslender was a significant figure in Argentina in the 80s and 90s, before relocating to the United States. This program will result in a full-length documentary film to be promoted at film festivals, on local television, and at various arts events around the world.
$3,789 spent5% of program spendingOnline Archive: Josefina Auslender - Public Education. Our other program services include the research and development of an online archive to showcase the work of IAM artists. This program will enable curators, scholars, and other interested parties to study our collections off-site. It includes the maintenance of a website and the build-out of an online database system. The goal of this project is to create a digitally accessible archive of all of the works in IAM's collection, publicly available through our website.
$2,392 spent3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $83,038.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $976k to $1.0M (+3%).
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: 2020 18% · 2021 10% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $18.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST’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
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
99% 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 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 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
99% of INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST'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 $200 that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST: 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 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST?
- INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,281 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $25,281 in grants to INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS MANIFEST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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