Maine · Nonprofit
WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,243 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($112,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Kennebec Valleyshared funderslocal
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio match
- Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $26k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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
WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 91% · 2023 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Kennebec Valleyshared funderslocalME · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 44 organizations near you
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeffris Family Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The West Virginia Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alabama Humanities Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
53% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,243 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($112,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $158,243 in grants to WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $112,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing