Maine · Nonprofit
SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM
SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM (Maine) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,384,795 to it, the largest being The Richard C Paine Jr Automobile Collection Charitable Trust ($2,277,145). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- The Ausolus Trustshared funders
- Myriad Consulting and Training Incportfolio match
- Museums Alaska Incportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $278k → $324k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM’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
SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 90% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 95% — 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
67% of SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
96% of SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- The Ausolus Trustshared fundersMA · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
- Myriad Consulting and Training Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Museums Alaska Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tahoe Maritime Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Porsche Club of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rpm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Historical Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM?
- SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM (Maine) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,384,795 to it, the largest being The Richard C Paine Jr Automobile Collection Charitable Trust ($2,277,145). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,384,795 in grants to SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM?
- The Richard C Paine Jr Automobile Collection Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,277,145 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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