Maine · Nonprofit
WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM
WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation ($9,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $166k
What Western Maine Paper & Heritage Museum does
Mission
To collect, document, preserve, display, educate and demonstrate the history of the maine paper industry and integrate the contributions made by the various ethnic groups of our region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The museum has produced a dvd, display collection, web site, and a photo slide show all depicting the history of paper making in the area. The museum has also developed a school program for educating students on the history of paper making in this area. Lastly the museum has established a permanent location for the museum for educational programs and display of the museum's historical collections.
$70,879 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,879.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $193k to $166k (−14%).
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.
98% of WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM’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
WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM.
“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
66% of WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM's grant income comes from Maine funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.
Against its field
WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM's revenue fell 15% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM?
- WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation ($9,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $22,000 in grants to WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM?
- Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN MAINE PAPER & HERITAGE MUSEUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 3 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