Vermont · Nonprofit
LOST SHUL MURAL INC
LOST SHUL MURAL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,680 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,680). 0 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Lost Shul Mural Inc does
Mission
Public charity: The Lost Shul Mural, Inc. was established to move, restore, and maintain the Lost Mural located in Burlington VT. The Lost Mural is one of the last remaining and largest examples of painted synagogue artwork, most of which were located in synagogues across central and eastern Europe, and most of which were destroyed during the Holocaust. The Lost Mural was originally painted in 1910, and needed extensive cleaning and restoration work to bring it back to its original vibrance. In 2021, the mural was cleaned, and in 2022, the mural has been restored.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Completion and display of the Lost Mural with conservators. Development and execution of educational strategy. Tours for public and school children Present lectures on historical significance and immigration experience (zoom and in-person)
$21,323 spent58% of program spendingOngoing monitoring of site for heat and humidity by consultant
$850 spent2% of program spendingPart time consultant to oversee programming, communications, development. Preparation of print and education materials
$7,756 spent21% of program spendingLegal, software and insurance expenses in support of program objectives
$3,435 spent9% of program spendingCreation of immigrant intersections map
$3,587 spent10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,951.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $110k to $18k (−83%).
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.
100% of LOST SHUL MURAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $500.
2 of 5 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 LOST SHUL MURAL INC’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
LOST SHUL MURAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 LOST SHUL MURAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 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
68% of LOST SHUL MURAL INC'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
LOST SHUL MURAL INC's revenue fell 74% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LOST SHUL MURAL INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
85%
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 LOST SHUL MURAL INC: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LOST SHUL MURAL INC?
- LOST SHUL MURAL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,680 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,680). 0 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 LOST SHUL MURAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $21,680 in grants to LOST SHUL MURAL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LOST SHUL MURAL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOST SHUL MURAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Lost Shul Mural →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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