Maine · Nonprofit
SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,659 to it, the largest being HATTIE A AND FRED C LYNAM TRUST ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $-14422
What Summer Festival of the Arts does
Mission
To encourage a community of artists of all ages where children can express themselves creatively through a wide range of artistic endeavors, gain a lifelong appreciation for the diversity of the creative spirit, and celebrate that creativity through the performing and non-performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Three week arts camp for young people entering grades 1-11 offering classes in the visual arts, crafts, music, dance, creative writing, theater, filmmaking and more taught by working artists whose common goal is to inspire the imagination and have fun.
$88,165 spent100% of program spendingThree week arts camp for young people entering grades 1-11 offering classes in the visual arts, crafts, music, dance, creative writing, theater, filmmaking and more taught by working artists whose common goal is to inspire the imagination and have fun.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $88,165.
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 2021 to 2022, from $45k to $18k (−59%).
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.
25% of SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $7k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 SUMMER FESTIVAL OF 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
SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
60% of SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
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.
Public support
100%
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 SUMMER FESTIVAL OF 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 SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS?
- SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,659 to it, the largest being HATTIE A AND FRED C LYNAM TRUST ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $37,659 in grants to SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS?
- HATTIE A AND FRED C LYNAM TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMER FESTIVAL OF 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.
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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 4 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