Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor
Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,418,696 to it, the largest being THE ELLEN WP WASSERMAN FOUNDATION ($1,011,654). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor does
Mission
Maine MILL's mission is to celebrate the told and untold stories of workers to foster community connections and inspire future creativity and ingenuity. The museum's vision is to be a cultural hub that fuels the dreams of tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Earned revenue from education programs, admissions, exhibits and licenses (for limited use of images or documents).
$208,072 spent$9,350 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $208,072.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $5.0M to $9.9M (+101%).
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: 2017 4% · 2020 16% · 2021 96% · 2022 41% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Rachel Ferrante
Executive Director
Board chair
Michael Rancourt
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $105k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor’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 Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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% · 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 81% — 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
20% of Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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 Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $298k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $580k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$550k
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor: 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 Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor?
- Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,418,696 to it, the largest being THE ELLEN WP WASSERMAN FOUNDATION ($1,011,654). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,418,696 in grants to Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor?
- THE ELLEN WP WASSERMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,011,654 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Museum of Innovation Learning and Labor 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 14 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