Maine · Nonprofit
The Islesboro Pre-School
The Islesboro Pre-School (Maine) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,749 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($105,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $365k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $236k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What The Islesboro Pre-School does
Mission
The Islesboro Preschool recognizes each child as an individual with their own set of life experiences. Each child will be encouraged to explore, observe, experiment, and discover through direct, concrete interaction with the environment. Children are given activities to challenge and to increase their developmental skills. Children are accepted for where they are at in all stages of development and encouraged to develop at their own rate. Character development is fostered in all areas to build caring, honest, respectful, and responsible individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Islesboro Preschool runs programs for two age groups. The Infant and Toddler program is for children ranging in age from 3 months to 2 1/2 years. The Preschool program is structured for children aged 2 1/2 through 5 years old. Both programs are now housed in our brand new facility at 152 Main Road located next door to the town office and fire department.In addition, summer camps are available for infants - 5 years of age.The Islesboro Preschool provides an atmosphere that encourages social, emotional, physical, and intellectual growth and development of the child as a whole. Using the Maine Early Childhood Guidelines and Infant/Toddler Guidelines, our program structures activities to meet those goals. Programs such as Creative Curriculum and Handwriting Without Tears provide structure and assessments to guide and monitor children along their developmental continuum. A typical day at the Islesboro Preschool will include a variety of activities including the following: sharing and conversation time, stories, songs, and finger plays; creative arts and crafts; games and large muscle play with outside play; nature, science, and math activities; field trips on the island; and…
$218,526 spent$50,979 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $218,526.
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.
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 $1.3M to $1.7M (+31%).
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 29% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 23% · 2022 33% · 2023 45% · 2024 39% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Emily Pendleton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $31k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 Islesboro Pre-School’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 Islesboro Pre-School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 The Islesboro Pre-School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 34% · 2021 67% · 2022 53% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“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
67% of The Islesboro Pre-School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
56% of The Islesboro Pre-School'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 $103k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133k 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.
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In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Islesboro Pre-School?
- The Islesboro Pre-School (Maine) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,749 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($105,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Islesboro Pre-School have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $235,749 in grants to The Islesboro Pre-School, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Islesboro Pre-School?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $105,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Islesboro Pre-School 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 9 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