Maine · Nonprofit
Stanley Museum Inc
Stanley Museum Inc (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,254 to it, the largest being The Richard C Paine Jr Automobile Collection Charitable Trust ($15,325). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $740k
What Stanley Museum Inc does
Mission
The museum furthers its mission by exhibiting all works of art and historical treasures, provide education research assistance in furtherance of its public service to the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Museum is housed in the erstwhile Stanley School, named after the Stanleys in 1905. The famous Stanley Steamer automobile was invented by Francis Edgar Stanley. The exhibits cover all facets of the Stanley family history and memorablia - airbrush painting, artifacts, and photography, violins and replicas of the Stanley steam cars from 1905,1910, and 1916.
$92,171 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $92,171.
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 $720k to $746k (+4%).
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 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of Stanley Museum Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Sarah Moon
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $1k.
1 of 5 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 Stanley Museum 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
Stanley Museum Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 Stanley Museum Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 94% · 2021 84% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of Stanley Museum 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. $229 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
Stanley Museum Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Stanley Museum 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Stanley Museum 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 Stanley Museum Inc?
- Stanley Museum Inc (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,254 to it, the largest being The Richard C Paine Jr Automobile Collection Charitable Trust ($15,325). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Stanley Museum Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $24,254 in grants to Stanley Museum Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Stanley Museum Inc?
- The Richard C Paine Jr Automobile Collection Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $15,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Stanley Museum 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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