Maine · Nonprofit
QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION
QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION (Maine) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,132,026 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($473,010). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $433k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Quoddy Tides Foundation does
Mission
Bridging boundaries, exploring borders founded in 2002 in eastport maine, the tides institute & museum of art is located on long standing traditional and continuing passamaquoddy homelands along the atlantic coast at the united states/canada border. This boundary location shapes its perspective on the region and the broader world: through its initiatives and programs to foster new innovative and cross-sector works; through its wide ranging collections, education and preservation efforts; and through its partnerships and endeavors to strengthen the region's economic prosperity, vitality and wider connections.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
4a collections - supporters secured key additions to the organization's collections including an important 1945 watercolor by john marin of cape split, maine, a rare 1849 eastport sons of temperance banner that came up for auction, and a large c.1930 oil painting by new york city based artist, george pearse ennis, of a waterfront scene here. The ennis painting was presented in 2025 in an exhibition on the artist and his work. A large collection of photographs by christian sunde and also cecil greenlaw were donated to the organization's collections. Nearly 7,000 entries are now available to see in the online database including the organization's collections of art and artifacts, library of books and historic buildings of washington county, maine. The organization's cassette tape oral history recordings of area residents have now been fully digitized.
$20,266 spent6% of program spending4b preservation - following the removal of the asbestos siding on the exterior of the 1819 north church building, the organization had the original wood siding underneath repaired and installed a new roof over the sanctuary space. The organization took the first steps to create a small park at the rear of the organization's seaman's church building with the removal of several trees.
$157,772 spent48% of program spending4c -education the organization presented two exhibitions in 2024, at the main building that were extremely well received: "home, downeast: wood engravings of pauline winchester inman" featuring a selection of 27 wood engraving prints and wood blocks by the artist that are part of a much larger gift of her works by eugene and marilyn ostreicher to the permanent collections; and "edward burtynsky: a visual archaeology" featuring eight large-scale color photographs on loan from the beaverbrook art gallery in fredericton, new brunswick, thanks to support from the unobskey foundation. Honor wilkinson, who joined the organization's staff as consulting curator, organized both exhibitions. Foster new work in 2024, 17 artists, including three alumni, were invited to live and work at the organization's studioworks artist-in- residence program, in its 12th year. Artists came from california, washington dc, massachusetts, florida, oregon, ireland and northern ireland and india, and other locations, and their work ranged from large scale paintings to small intimate drawings, from sculpture to multi- media installations. Their public talks and workshops reflected this range of contemporary…
$153,879 spent$14,827 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $331,917.
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 $2.2M to $2.7M (+23%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $98k → $150k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION’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
QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 84% · 2019 57% · 2020 86% · 2021 61% · 2022 23% · 2023 34% — 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
56% of QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
58% of QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION'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 $476k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $656k 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.
Government funding QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of the Interior$500k
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 QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION: 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 QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION?
- QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION (Maine) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,132,026 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($473,010). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,132,026 in grants to QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $473,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUODDY TIDES FOUNDATION 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 19 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