Maine · Nonprofit
LYMETV
LYMETV (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,948 to it, the largest being EDWIN S WEBSTER FOUNDATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $137k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Lymetv does
Mission
LymeTV is dedicated to educating the global community about Lyme and other tick-borne infectious diseases. We aim to reduce the incidence of these diseases through research, education campaigns, and film projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School Health Education Program - LymeTV continued to distribute its interactive animated segment (www.tickjedi.com) for tick-bite prevention education in grades K-6. The program received media attention and garnered incremental support from partnerships with other organizations.
$1,335 spent$1,000 earned by the program11% of program spendingProduction of Documentary for Awareness and Prevention - LymeTV focused on consolidating previously filmed footage and preparation for further editorial work on the film.
$2,738 spent23% of program spendingPublic Outreach Programs - LymeTV has partnerships with other public health organizations that serve the unhoused and underserved of our community who are at high risk for tick-borne diseases due to sleeping outside. These partnerships including shelters for the unhoused, substance abuse shelters, youth nonprofits, and more. We provide free tick repellent to our community partners who distribute the materials directly to our target populations. We collaborate with and provide health education for our other organizational partners.
$4,815 spent40% of program spendingAdvocacy
$1,673 spent14% of program spendingProduction of Public Service Announcements Highlighting Tick Disease Awareness and Prevention
$1,319 spent11% of program spendingTick Talk Film Series
$72 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,952.
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 2024 to 2025, from $41k to $66k (+60%).
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 LYMETV’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Adina Bercowicz
President and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $21k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 LYMETV’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
LYMETV leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 64% · 2023 97% — 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
LYMETV draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
LYMETV runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LYMETV
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
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tick Jedi Coalition · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LYMETV: 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 LYMETV?
- LYMETV (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,948 to it, the largest being EDWIN S WEBSTER FOUNDATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYMETV have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $136,948 in grants to LYMETV, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYMETV?
- EDWIN S WEBSTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYMETV 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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