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Wabanaki Alliance

Wabanaki Alliance (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $703,270 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($185,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$341k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$703k
Net assets
$539k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Wabanaki Alliance does

Mission

Advance the sovereignty of Wabanaki Nations in Maine

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Engagement and education of general public concerning Wabanaki Alliance mission of explaining Wabanaki inherent sovereignty through meetings, invited talks, written materials, and digital communication.

    $48,347 spent
    25% of program spending
  2. Advocacy for legislation package that advances Wabanaki sovereignty via social media, convening Wabanaki Alliance Tribal Coalition, and multiple events.

    $48,347 spent
    25% of program spending
  3. Engagement with and education of state legislators, executive branch of Maine State Government staff and officials via ongoing meetings, written materials and coalition partner collaboration.

    $96,692 spent
    50% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $193,386.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($239k) Expenses 100 ($109k) Net assets 100 ($204k)2022 Revenue 176 ($420k) Expenses 306 ($335k) Net assets 142 ($289k)2023 Revenue 185 ($442k) Expenses 235 ($257k) Net assets 232 ($474k)2024 Revenue 143 ($341k) Expenses 253 ($276k) Net assets 264 ($539k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (143)Expenses (253)Net assets (264)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 2022 to 2023, from $296k to $482k (+62%).

$204k
$296k
$482k
$548k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

103% of Wabanaki Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$130k
’21
$85k
’22
$185k
’23
$65k
’24
24
months of
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.

2021202220232024
Listed5667
Joined·+3+2+1
No longer listed·220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $55k → $205k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Wabanaki Alliance’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

Wabanaki Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

74% 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 Wabanaki Alliance.

26%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 82% · 2021 69% · 2022 23% · 2023 24% — 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

60% of Wabanaki Alliance's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 70% 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

79% of Wabanaki Alliance's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
DC

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Wabanaki Alliance holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve23.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Wabanaki Alliance

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.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 17%Fundraising 13%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Wabanaki Alliance?
Wabanaki Alliance (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $703,270 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($185,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Wabanaki Alliance have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $703,270 in grants to Wabanaki Alliance, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Wabanaki Alliance?
Elmina B Sewall Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Wabanaki Alliance 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 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