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MAINE INSIDE OUT

MAINE INSIDE OUT (Maine) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,135,190 to it, the largest being NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($579,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$751k
Revenue FY2025
45
Funders on record
$3.1M
Grants received
$491k
Net assets
29/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 88%

Against its field

MAINE INSIDE OUT is better cushioned than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−26% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($612k) Expenses 100 ($482k) Net assets 100 ($252k)2021 Revenue 138 ($844k) Expenses 157 ($756k) Net assets 135 ($340k)2022 Revenue 199 ($1.2M) Expenses 177 ($854k) Net assets 279 ($704k)2023 Revenue 170 ($1.0M) Expenses 216 ($1.0M) Net assets 277 ($700k)2024 Revenue 170 ($1.0M) Expenses 220 ($1.1M) Net assets 272 ($687k)2025 Revenue 123 ($751k) Expenses 196 ($948k) Net assets 194 ($491k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (123)Expenses (196)Net assets (194)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2021 9% · 2022 12% · 2023 38% · 2024 20% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of MAINE INSIDE OUT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$130k
20
$88k
21
$364k
22
$1k
23
$23k
24
$196k
25
6.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $109k → $913k.

9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)36% 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 INSIDE OUT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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 INSIDE OUT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

72% 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 INSIDE OUT.

18%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 60% · 2019 46% · 2020 37% · 2021 36% · 2022 26% · 2023 44%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

41% of MAINE INSIDE OUT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

MAINE INSIDE OUT draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 11 states in all.

ME
NH
MT
MN
NY
MA
PA
CO
KY
DE
DC

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

17
19
20
21
22
23
Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 45 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 INSIDE OUT receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.

Federal$250k
grants $250kcontracts $0
22
23
24
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$250k

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 INSIDE OUT

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 13%Fundraising 12%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 INSIDE OUT: 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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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 INSIDE OUT?
MAINE INSIDE OUT (Maine) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,135,190 to it, the largest being NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($579,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAINE INSIDE OUT have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $3,135,190 in grants to MAINE INSIDE OUT, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAINE INSIDE OUT?
NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $579,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAINE INSIDE OUT 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 45funders 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