Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Arts Academy
Maine Arts Academy (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,311 to it, the largest being Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Maine Arts Academy has grown faster than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organizationshared fundersportfolio match
- Onion Foundationshared fundersportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 93% · 2019 91% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% · 2024 94% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Maine Arts Academy’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $5k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Maine Arts Academy’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
Maine Arts Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 55% · 2023 56% — 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
100% of Maine Arts Academy's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 262 organizations that share them.
- Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fundshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organizationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Onion Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Unity Foundationlocalportfolio matchME · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Kennebec Valleyshared funderslocalME · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · funds 44 organizations near you
- Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Evergreen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Judy Glickman Lauder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Libra Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Mid-Maineshared funderslocalME · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · funds 10 organizations near you
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.
Government funding Maine Arts Academy receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $874k on record.
- Department of Education$780k
- Department of Justice$93k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Maine Arts Academy
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.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maine Arts Academy: 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 Maine Arts Academy?
- Maine Arts Academy (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,311 to it, the largest being Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Arts Academy have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $62,311 in grants to Maine Arts Academy, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Arts Academy?
- Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation 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 Maine Arts Academy 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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