Maine · Nonprofit
WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION
WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION (Maine) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,132,930 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($250,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $532k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $919k
What Wabanaki Cultural Preservation Coalition does
Mission
Nibezun resides on sacred wabanaki land alongside the penobscot river where we celebrate culture as medicine, provide an inclusive space for healing, and promote sustainability for all people and future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wabanaki arts: providing knowledge, training, and experience of the wabanakithrough interactive sessions.
$79,117 spent17% of program spendingWabanaki language: teaching and preserving the ancient language of the wabanaki so it may be passed through the generations. Done through workshops using elders and experts in the old language.
$47,188 spent10% of program spendingWabanaki sustainable life ways: offering a glimpse of the past and the future through workshops and activities.
$18,191 spent4% of program spendingThe organization provides cultural preservation programs including language revitalization, traditional art education, cultural workshops, community events, and intergenerational knowledge-sharing initiatives. All expenses are directly related to the furtherance of these programs.
$323,131 spent$12,000 earned by the program69% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $467,627.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $968k to $1.1M (+16%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 92% · 2023 7% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $83k → $434k.
11 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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 CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
54% 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 CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 33% · 2019 35% · 2020 59% · 2021 47% · 2022 34% · 2023 23% — 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
38% of WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $858k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
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 WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION?
- WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION (Maine) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,132,930 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($250,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,132,930 in grants to WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION 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 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing