Maine · Nonprofit
ISLESFORD BOATWORKS
ISLESFORD BOATWORKS (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,550 to it, the largest being Leonard C & Mildred F Ferguson Foundation ($61,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ISLESFORD BOATWORKS has grown faster than half of the 4,673 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,673 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Onion Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Heart of Maine United Wayshared funders
- Block Island Maritime Funding 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.
74% of ISLESFORD BOATWORKS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $28k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 ISLESFORD BOATWORKS’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
ISLESFORD BOATWORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 ISLESFORD BOATWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 52% · 2019 71% · 2020 80% · 2021 62% · 2022 54% · 2023 36% — 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
80% of ISLESFORD BOATWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
ISLESFORD BOATWORKS draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Onion Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 89 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Heart of Maine United Wayshared fundersME · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- Block Island Maritime Funding Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonnell Cove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James & Betty Jacobs Family Charitable Trust C/O Jeff Jacobsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morton-Kelly Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kennebec Savings Bank Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Palmer Walbridge Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Granite Point Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alfred M Senter Fund Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susan & George Craig Family 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.
Organizations like ISLESFORD BOATWORKS
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.
Public support
97%
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 ISLESFORD BOATWORKS: 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 ISLESFORD BOATWORKS?
- ISLESFORD BOATWORKS (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,550 to it, the largest being Leonard C & Mildred F Ferguson Foundation ($61,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ISLESFORD BOATWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $167,550 in grants to ISLESFORD BOATWORKS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ISLESFORD BOATWORKS?
- Leonard C & Mildred F Ferguson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $61,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ISLESFORD BOATWORKS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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