Maine · Nonprofit
WATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
WATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,640 to it, the largest being The President and Trustees of Colby College ($123,495). 2 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.
- Davis Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Unity Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Mid-Maineshared funderslocal
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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $48k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of WATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION’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 OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 WATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Davis Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Unity Foundationlocalportfolio matchME · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Mid-Maineshared funderslocalME · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · funds 10 organizations near you
- Opera America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ninigret Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morton-Kelly Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Saunders Foundation Co Shipman & Goodwinportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dillard Foundation Co Patrick Dillardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anne R Henry Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hoyt Charitable Foundation F Sherman Hoyt &portfolio 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 OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: 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 OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
- WATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,640 to it, the largest being The President and Trustees of Colby College ($123,495). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $166,640 in grants to WATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
- The President and Trustees of Colby College is the largest funder on record, with $123,495 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 3funders 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