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TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS

TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS (Maine) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,135 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($77,385). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$134k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$183k
Net assets
$194k
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Tear Cap Workshops does

Mission

Our mission is to build connections between craft and the local environment, between experienced artisans and beginning students, and between artisans of different disciplines. It is our goal to build a craft community, accessible to anyone with a desire to learn, based around maine resources: wood, stone, metal, and food.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Tear Cap Workshops seeks to unleash creative pursuits in all people through hands-on workshops, classes, educational events, internships and volunteer opportunities. We also hope to nurture the development and success of artists, craftspeople, and small creative businesses by offering affordable, aesthetic and inspiring rental spaces within this community.

    $125,400 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $125,400.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets -48 ($-21205)2019 Revenue 78 ($67k) Expenses 99 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($45k)2020 Revenue 81 ($69k) Expenses 102 ($70k) Net assets 96 ($43k)2021 Revenue 128 ($109k) Expenses 110 ($76k) Net assets 256 ($114k)2022 Revenue 143 ($122k) Expenses 117 ($81k) Net assets 348 ($155k)2023 Revenue 130 ($111k) Expenses 148 ($102k) Net assets 368 ($164k)2024 Revenue 138 ($118k) Expenses 139 ($96k) Net assets 417 ($186k)2025 Revenue 157 ($134k) Expenses 182 ($125k) Net assets 436 ($194k)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (182)Net assets (436)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $184k to $249k (+36%).

$134k
$192k
$184k
$249k
$283k
$286k
$323k
$326k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

70% of TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’18
−$1k
’19
−$2k
’20
$33k
’21
$41k
’22
$9k
’23
$22k
’24
$8k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $36k.

1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS’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

TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% 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

42% 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 TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS.

42%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 81% · 2021 57% · 2022 47% · 2023 46% — 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

33% of TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

83% of TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
NY
MA

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS

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.

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS?
TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS (Maine) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,135 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($77,385). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $183,135 in grants to TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS?
Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $77,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEAR CAP WORKSHOPS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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