Maine · Nonprofit
PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL
PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,600 to it, the largest being AGNES M LINDSAY TRUST ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $116k
What Penobscot Bay Language School does
Mission
The mission of Penobscot Bay Language School is to develop and provide opportunities for the people of midcoast maine and around the world to explore our shared experience on earth through the study and celebration of language and culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Foreign language and esl classes were offered for all ages and for all levels.
$117,848 spent$89,283 earned by the program76% of program spendingCultural events were held year-round and included cultural meals, and free youth & family programs (weekly).
$37,852 spent24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,700.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $205k to $156k (−24%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $10k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL’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
PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
37% 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 PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 83% · 2023 84% — 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
25% of PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 20% 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
PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL draws 55% 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. $14k 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.
Organizations like PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL?
- PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,600 to it, the largest being AGNES M LINDSAY TRUST ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $58,600 in grants to PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL?
- AGNES M LINDSAY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENOBSCOT BAY LANGUAGE SCHOOL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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