Maine · Nonprofit
PROJECT FREEWILL
PROJECT FREEWILL (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,500 to it, the largest being THE PMG FOUNDATION ($220,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Project Freewill does
Mission
Free arts education
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Free music education inside prisons and jails
$5,000 spent26% of program spendingCommunity recording studio
$9,000 spent47% of program spendingsongwriting and poetry contest and events
$1,200 spent6% of program spendingGrant to Maine Inside Out to build their recording studio
$4,000 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,200.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $32k → $55k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 PROJECT FREEWILL’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
PROJECT FREEWILL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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: 2021 63% · 2022 91% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
PROJECT FREEWILL draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PROJECT FREEWILL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like PROJECT FREEWILL
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 PROJECT FREEWILL?
- PROJECT FREEWILL (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,500 to it, the largest being THE PMG FOUNDATION ($220,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT FREEWILL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $241,500 in grants to PROJECT FREEWILL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT FREEWILL?
- THE PMG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT FREEWILL 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 3 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