Maine · Nonprofit
Watermans Community Center
Watermans Community Center (Maine) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,707,178 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($256,100). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Watermans Community Center does
Mission
Provide arts and enrichment programs and experiences for North Haven community members of all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Theatrical productions continue to be an important part of Waterman's programing. During fiscal year 24.25 offerings included: North Haven Community School's (NHCS) autumn production of "Radium," fall afterschool program production of "Puss in Boots," table reading of "What the Constitution Means to Me," NHCS One Act Maine Principals' Competition entry: "Horrors," spring afterschool program production "moving to Movie Music:, 8th Biennial Spring Playwriting Festival, and Waterman's big summer production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner."Youth Programs: Laugh & Learn preschool, afterschool and other youth programs included Laugh & Learn Preschool for ages 1 to 5, Acting Out Afterschool Programs, Imagine That Afterschool Program, Kids' Nights Out, Middle School Nights Out, Mainland Mania, traditional Halloween party & gingerbread house decorating, and Summer Camps: School of Fish, Little Urchins and Arts & Adventures, and $21,000 grant to North Haven Community School supporting Arts Integration Programing in the school curriculum.General Events: Concerts, Lectures & discussion groups, presentations, art exhibits, movies, holiday parties and gatherings, workshops, community exhibit &…
$760,698 spentof which $21,000 as grants$247,152 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $760,698.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.8M to $4.7M (+24%).
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 17% · 2022 9% · 2023 10% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of Watermans Community Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Christie Hallowell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $50k → $343k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Watermans Community Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
Watermans Community Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
40% 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 Watermans Community Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 74% · 2019 68% · 2020 41% · 2021 25% · 2022 30% · 2023 36% — 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
64% of Watermans Community Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
Watermans Community Center draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $560k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Watermans Community Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Watermans Community Center
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Watermans Community Center?
- Watermans Community Center (Maine) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,707,178 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($256,100). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Watermans Community Center have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,707,178 in grants to Watermans Community Center, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Watermans Community Center?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $256,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Watermans Community Center 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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