Maine · Nonprofit
PEAKS ISLAND NEWS
PEAKS ISLAND NEWS (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,668 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Peaks Island News does
Mission
Publish monthly print and online Peaks Island News newspaper
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The BOD conducted two fundraisers by mail during 2025 in an effort to increase income from donations
$4,455 spent7% of program spendingDuring 2025, the Peaks Island News hired an independent contractor to act as editor and layout the newspaper to reduce dependence on volunteers as a step towards longterm sustainability of the newspaper. The BOD was able to raise funds and secure grants to make this operationally possible.
$48,974 spentof which $10,000 as grants79% of program spendingIn response to reader feedback, the BOD expanded the number of pages in the paper and printed more color pages. The BOD remained committed to bulk mailing the newspaper to every household on Peaks Island. This contributed to increased operational expenses.
$8,735 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,164.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $43k to $69k (+60%).
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.
81% of PEAKS ISLAND NEWS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 PEAKS ISLAND NEWS’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
PEAKS ISLAND NEWS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
68% 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 PEAKS ISLAND NEWS.
“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
68% of PEAKS ISLAND NEWS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Maine funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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.
Against its field
PEAKS ISLAND NEWS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PEAKS ISLAND NEWS
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEAKS ISLAND NEWS: 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 PEAKS ISLAND NEWS?
- PEAKS ISLAND NEWS (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,668 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEAKS ISLAND NEWS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $56,668 in grants to PEAKS ISLAND NEWS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEAKS ISLAND NEWS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEAKS ISLAND NEWS 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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