Maine · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $751k
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $491k
What Maine Inside Out does
Mission
Maine Inside Out engages youth and adults impacted by systemic oppression to create and share original theater.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Creative Ensemble Project MIO's Creative Ensemble is composed of staff and Lewiston community artists who utilize theater to explore themes of identity, shared life experiences, and the world we inhabit. Through play, dialogue, and the transformative power of art, MIO fosters connection, bridging boundaries and dissolving the separation between audience and actor, which encourages collective movement and change. In 2024, the Creative Ensemble debuted their performance, "Broken Clock," first at the Lewiston Festival on Juneteenth, followed by smaller performances in Lewiston and Portland in November. Throughout 2025, the play "Broken CLock" embarked on a statewide tour across Maine, with the Creative Ensemble performing it over 15 times. Venues included correctional facilities, local theaters, and colleges.
$215,292 spentof which $40,778 as grants$15,230 earned by the program30% of program spendingLewiston Landing Pad ProjectArtists participated in peer-based groups and received support through MIO's advocacy and support programs which are held by the Lewiston Landing Pad Project. Advocacy and Support involves helping navigate system involvement and personal and family crises by offering support with fines, fees, and restitution, as well as emergency funds for food and basic resources (diapers, formula), shelter, and transportation. MIO connected 30 young people to resources for emergency food and basic resources in 2025. The Landing Pad Project also holds community program projects including community lunches where artists are invited to prepare for hosting and performing original art at upcoming MIO events (open mic nights, Juneteenth, theater performances) and MIO also invites community resources to connect artists to (recovery support, financial resources, etc). In 2025 there were 10 community lunches. There were 4 open mic nights: "Time Served" Open Mic Night on March 18,2025; "Inside Vision" Open Mic Night on May 19, 2025; "Home Bound" Open Mic Night on October 21, 2025; "Shelter in Place" Open Mic Night on December 16, 2025.
$158,043 spent22% of program spendingLewiston Youth ProjectIn 2025, the Lewiston Youth Project focused on strengthening ties with existing community partners to determine the best strategy for MIO's continued engagement with Lewiston youth. This involved outreach, information gathering through meetings with youth and partners, and internal staff strategy and reflection on prior work to inform future workshops. MIO successfully held workshops with multiple community partners and youth from the area.
$76,777 spent11% of program spendingPrison ProjectDuring 2025, the Prison Project focused on building relationships with correctional facilities statewide and developing a plan for future in-facility programming for both men and women to take place in 2026. A key component of this initiative was successfully touring "Broken Clock," which the creative ensemble performed for four different groups across three facilities.
$35,237 spent5% of program spendingPortland Youth ProjectIn 2025, MIO continued its focus on relationship building, with facilitators engaging with both school staff and administration. A significant event was the conclusion of the Portland Youth Project, which culminated in a meaningful close-out session. This event celebrated the achievements of the King Middle School students who had participated in MIO's theater program throughout 2024.
$1,444 spent0% of program spendingExternal WorkshopsMIO facilitators lead external workshops for various outside organizations. These workshops utilize forms of theater to help participants step away from their routine work activities, encouraging them to break out of their comfort zones and learn new games. These external workshops also serve as a source of earned revenue for MIO.
$38,778 spent$4,400 earned by the program5% of program spendingFiscal SponsorshipMIO supports mission-aligned indepedent artists, organizations, and groups without 501(c)(3) tax status to apply for grant funding through formal fiscal sponsorship. Through fiscal sponsorship, MIO supports visionary artists and community organizers in the practical process of resourcing their ideas, reducing the administrative burden on emerging artists and projects and amplifying the collective community impact on social change. We meet with fiscal sponsor participants regularly to ensure alignment with the project and review expense reports.
$181,867 spent$17,617 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $707,438.
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 2021 to 2022, from $355k to $720k (+103%).
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
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.
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.
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 63% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MAINE INSIDE OUT is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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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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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 45 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