Maine · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES
THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES (Maine) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,400 to it, the largest being WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ($57,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way of Tri Vally Arealocal
- The Casco Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $81k → $27k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES’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
THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 38% — 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
95% of THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Tri Vally ArealocalME · funds 10 organizations near you
- The Casco Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bank of Maine Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The President and Trustees of Colby Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Technology Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Androscoggin Bank's Mainstreet Fdn Portland Trust Company LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fisher Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Incshared fundersME · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Sam L Cohen Foundationshared fundersME · backs 103 organizations that share your funders
- John T Gorman Foundationshared fundersME · backs 123 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$250k
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 THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES
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.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES: 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 THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES?
- THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES (Maine) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,400 to it, the largest being WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ($57,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $193,400 in grants to THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES?
- WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB is the largest funder on record, with $57,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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