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MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION

MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,711 to it, the largest being Onion Foundation ($75,900). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$266k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$114k
Net assets
$160k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Maine Crafts Association does

Mission

Maine Crafts Association acts to sustain and celebrate craft as a cornerstone of maine's culture and economy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Educational programs: includes in-person and online workshops, studio tours, apprenticeships and mentorship, essays and interviews.

    $8,375 spentof which $3,450 as grants$97,135 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  2. Other: programs and events designed to engage audiences for the purpose of networking, learning, promotion and community building such as member meetings, fashion show, online campaigns.

    $126,582 spentof which $45,200 as grants
    94% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $134,957.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($413k) Expenses 100 ($431k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2018 Revenue 146 ($604k) Expenses 131 ($566k) Net assets 155 ($109k)2019 Revenue 142 ($588k) Expenses 146 ($630k) Net assets 94 ($67k)2020 Revenue 122 ($503k) Expenses 120 ($515k) Net assets 76 ($54k)2021 Revenue 201 ($830k) Expenses 181 ($778k) Net assets 149 ($105k)2022 Revenue 72 ($299k) Expenses 54 ($232k) Net assets 243 ($172k)2023 Revenue 56 ($233k) Expenses 60 ($257k) Net assets 209 ($147k)2024 Revenue 61 ($251k) Expenses 55 ($238k) Net assets 227 ($160k)2025 Revenue 64 ($266k) Expenses 62 ($267k) Net assets 226 ($160k)
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Revenue (64)Expenses (62)Net assets (226)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $113k to $375k (+231%).

$100k
$155k
$113k
$375k
$305k
$268k
$242k
$255k
$261k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 24% · 2022 13% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

57% of MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$18k
’17
$39k
’18
−$43k
’19
−$12k
’20
$51k
’21
$66k
’22
−$24k
’23
$13k
’24
−$877
’25
1.1
months of
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

Whitney Gill

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+3+8+3+0+2+4+0+1
No longer listed·05910550
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $750 → $23k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CRAFTS ASSOCIATION’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 CRAFTS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67%
largest funder
80%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 78% · 2023 98% — 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

40% of MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

86% of MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
NH
MA
PA
KY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maine out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $103k on record.

Federal$103k
grants $103kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$103k

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 CRAFTS ASSOCIATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 49%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

  • Shop Maine Craft · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION?
MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,711 to it, the largest being Onion Foundation ($75,900). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $113,711 in grants to MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION?
Onion Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $75,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAINE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing