Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Maine Library Association
Maine Library Association (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being John T Gorman Foundation ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $126k
What Maine Library Association does
Mission
Professional & Educational Association
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Maine Library Association Annual Conference provides professional development opportunities to approximately 200 librarians, as well as the opportunity to present, network, and hear speakers from outside the state.
$28,152 spentof which $48,395 as grants96% of program spendingMaine Library Association Annual Meeting provides an opportunity for approximately 50 librarians to share ideas along the topic of Libraries with No Development Staff.
$393 spent1% of program spendingMaine Academic Libraries Day - A networking and professional development event for 100 librarians, primarily academic.
$750 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,295.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $132k to $175k (+32%).
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.
21% of Maine Library Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.
From the IRS filings of Maine Library 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 Library Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Maine Library Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Maine Library Association runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Maine Library 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Library Association: 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 Library Association?
- Maine Library Association (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being John T Gorman Foundation ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Library Association have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,500 in grants to Maine Library Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Library Association?
- John T Gorman Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Library Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2019–2025), 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