Maine · Nonprofit
LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY
LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,778 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,850). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $887k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $205k
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Louis T Graves Memorial Public Library does
Mission
To operate and maintain a free public library in kennebunkport maine.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The largest program is maintaining the library through purchases of books and library materials, and to support library staff and general operating expenses.
$490,521 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $490,521.
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.
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 $4.7M to $4.2M (−11%).
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: 2017 19% · 2018 25% · 2019 37% · 2020 29% · 2021 28% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY’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. 1 of the last 8 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 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $63k → $23k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY’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
LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY 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
68% 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 LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 56% · 2019 52% · 2020 71% · 2021 39% · 2022 46% · 2023 43% — 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
45% of LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY 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 LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY: 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 LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,778 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,850). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $204,778 in grants to LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $52,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUIS T GRAVES MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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