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River Tree Center for the Arts

River Tree Center for the Arts (Maine) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,501 to it, the largest being The Onion Foundation ($49,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$378k
Revenue FY2025
13
Funders on record
$170k
Grants received
$71k
Net assets
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

River Tree Center for the Arts's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($241k) Expenses 100 ($224k) Net assets 100 ($122k)2018 Revenue 99 ($238k) Expenses 106 ($238k) Net assets 100 ($122k)2019 Revenue 119 ($287k) Expenses 129 ($288k) Net assets 99 ($121k)2020 Revenue 134 ($322k) Expenses 152 ($339k) Net assets 85 ($103k)2021 Revenue 114 ($274k) Expenses 108 ($241k) Net assets 112 ($137k)2022 Revenue 142 ($341k) Expenses 138 ($308k) Net assets 139 ($169k)2023 Revenue 159 ($383k) Expenses 173 ($387k) Net assets 135 ($165k)2024 Revenue 135 ($324k) Expenses 161 ($361k) Net assets 105 ($128k)2025 Revenue 157 ($378k) Expenses 194 ($435k) Net assets 58 ($71k)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (194)Net assets (58)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

26% of River Tree Center for the Arts’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
17
$150
18
$1k
19
$17k
20
$33k
21
$33k
22
$4k
23
$37k
24
$57k
25
0.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $43k.

2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)6% 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 River Tree Center for the Arts’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

River Tree Center for the Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

29%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 88% · 2019 59% · 2020 46% · 2021 49% · 2022 66% · 2023 59%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

36% of River Tree Center for the Arts's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

80% of River Tree Center for the Arts's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
NY
CT
RI
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like River Tree Center for the Arts

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maine

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 15%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ME

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for River Tree Center for the Arts: 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 River Tree Center for the Arts?
River Tree Center for the Arts (Maine) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,501 to it, the largest being The Onion Foundation ($49,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does River Tree Center for the Arts have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $169,501 in grants to River Tree Center for the Arts, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of River Tree Center for the Arts?
The Onion Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $49,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like River Tree Center for the Arts 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.

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 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing