Maine · Nonprofit
Side x Side Inc
Side x Side Inc (Maine) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $735,359 to it, the largest being LILY SARAH GRACE FUND INC ($348,109). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $511k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $735k
- Net assets
- $264k
What Side x Side Inc does
Mission
To ignite academic excellence in education through comprehensive arts integration, bringing critical thinking, creativity, and innovation into the classroom through arts-based programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During the 2024-25 fiscal year, side x side provided arts integration experiences to over 1,000 pre-k-8th grade students, and 298 educators in 10 schools across two school districts.
$243,830 spent76% of program spendingProject maine, a professional development series with interactive webinars and in person visual and performing arts workshops around the state. A project manual for participants and documentation of the arts integrated programming was generated during this year. This work was funded by a congressional directed spending grant through the office of senator angus king and the u.s. Department of education. We completed our project maine work in the early part of fy2025.
$42,296 spent13% of program spendingMaine creates, is a statewide initiative designed to train teaching artists, strengthen community connections, and enhance the well-being of maine people throught the power of the arts. Developed in partnership with the maine arts commission, the program invests in local creativity by uncovering hidden assets within each community.
$23,447 spent7% of program spendingWe started offering community arts programming including the following:after-school art classes,oak street studios provides art classes for kids ages 6 and up at our studio. Classes meet once a week for three trimesters. Our projects are based in art history and children's literature. We use fine arts materials and students participate in an art show at the end of each class trimester.summer art camps,all summer camps are one week long, with ages 6-12 year olds. Each camp has up to 12 campers with an instructor and an assistant. Camps feature art making opportunities in a variety of mediums: painting, drawing, mixed media, sculpture, sewing, collage, etc. As well as field trips and playground outings. Students learn foundational skills and develop their own artistic style while creating beautiful art. Vacation week art camps,we offer art camps during the portland public schools february and april vacation weeks. Throughout the week, students work with a variety of materials including paint, fabric, recycled objects, and mixed media, all while developing their own unique artistic voice. At the end of the week, each student will leave with a collection of their own creations, new…
$11,513 spent$16,174 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $321,086.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $217k to $599k (+176%).
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: 2017 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 70% · 2020 86% · 2021 92% · 2022 77% · 2023 33% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Side x Side Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Erica Swan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $1k → $81k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Side x Side Inc’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
Side x Side Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 Side x Side Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 46% · 2023 22% — 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
50% of Side x Side Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
89% of Side x Side Inc's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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.
Against its field
Side x Side Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Side x Side Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record.
- Department of Education$2.9M
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 Side x Side Inc
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Side x Side Inc: 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 Side x Side Inc?
- Side x Side Inc (Maine) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $735,359 to it, the largest being LILY SARAH GRACE FUND INC ($348,109). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Side x Side Inc have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $735,359 in grants to Side x Side Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Side x Side Inc?
- LILY SARAH GRACE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $348,109 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Side x Side Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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