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Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc

Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc (Maine) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $391,250 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($273,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$558k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$391k
Net assets
$405k
3/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc does

Mission

Advance the understanding of contemporary visual arts in Maine communities through sponsorship of exhibits, lectures, workshops, meetings and seminars in connection with matters of artistic concern.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sponsors and curates exhibitions, lectures, panel symposia, films, socials, and other programs to educate and to sustain artists in their artistic quests and pursuits. UMVA members and non-members (current circulation over 1200) receive the Maine Arts Journal.

    $271,166 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. An ongoing DVD series, which profiles some of Maines most distinguished and often less recognized visual artists who articulate the importance of art making are produced and distributed.

    $1,035 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $272,201.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($35k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 130 ($32k) Expenses 116 ($41k) Net assets 86 ($53k)2019 Revenue 478 ($119k) Expenses 104 ($37k) Net assets 219 ($136k)2020 Revenue 254 ($63k) Expenses 123 ($43k) Net assets 251 ($156k)2021 Revenue 229 ($57k) Expenses 124 ($44k) Net assets 273 ($169k)2022 Revenue -82 ($-20470) Expenses 120 ($42k) Net assets 172 ($107k)2023 Revenue 237 ($59k) Expenses 161 ($57k) Net assets 176 ($109k)2024 Revenue 382 ($95k) Expenses 208 ($73k) Net assets 211 ($131k)2025 Revenue 2238 ($558k) Expenses 803 ($283k) Net assets 653 ($405k)
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Revenue (2238)Expenses (803)Net assets (653)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $131k to $405k (+210%).

$62k
$53k
$136k
$156k
$169k
$107k
$109k
$131k
$405k
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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.

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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’17
−$9k
’18
$83k
’19
$20k
’20
$13k
’21
−$63k
’22
$2k
’23
$22k
’24
$275k
’25
17
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $51k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 Union of Maine Visual Artists 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

Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84% 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 Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc.

70%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 89% · 2020 71% · 2021 96% · 2022 59% · 2023 55% — 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

50% of Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 23% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

82% of Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc'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 $72k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Maine funders.

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

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $319k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Union of Maine Visual Artists 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc?
Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc (Maine) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $391,250 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($273,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $391,250 in grants to Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Union of Maine Visual Artists Inc?
Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $273,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Union of Maine Visual Artists 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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