Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Center for Creativity
Maine Center for Creativity (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being DAVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Maine Center for Creativity does
Mission
The Maine Center for Creativitys mission is to promote the growth of the arts and creative industries in Maine. This is achieved by creating projects and programs that promote the arts and stimulate the economy by contributing to the growth of Maines creative industries and professions. We do this by:1) Creating high-visibility public art projects that capture the imagination and foster the art of the possible,2) Creating programming and networking that support people working in the creative industries, and3) Stimulating innovative enterprise and interaction through regional, national and international collaborations, partnerships and educational initiatives, which lead to increasing the import and export of innovation to/from Maine.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Art All Around - a collaborative community art initiative launched in 2016 that brings diverse local partners (schools, non-profits, businesses, local artists and other residents) together to create large-scale temporary art installations in outdoor public spaces in the downtown area of cities and towns across Maine. The program's pilot project took place in Westbrook, Maine in 2016, and was repeated in Westbrook in June of 2017. The program was also expanded to Biddeford in September of 2017.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Maine Center for Creativity’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 Center for Creativity leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
96% 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 Maine Center for Creativity.
“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 Center for Creativity's grant income comes from Maine funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like Maine Center for Creativity
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.
Public support
49%
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 Maine Center for Creativity: 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 Maine Center for Creativity?
- Maine Center for Creativity (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being DAVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Center for Creativity have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,500 in grants to Maine Center for Creativity.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Center for Creativity?
- DAVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Center for Creativity 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 2 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