Maine · Nonprofit
WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY
WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,445 to it, the largest being Theodore M Louana H and Monica A Frois Family Foundation Inc ($4,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $507k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Wiscasset Public Library does
Mission
Wiscasset Public Librarys goal is to provide access to innovateive library services, delivered in an efficient and effective manner that will assist everyone to contiune to grow and learn throughout their lives. Provide
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2024 library owned 64010 items in the collection and circulated 22682 books, e-books, magazines, videos, audio book downloads, books on cd as well as museum passes, a microscope, a telescope and stem kits. The library ran informational programs, chair yoga classes as well as book discussions for a total of 679 programs attended by 2187 people.
$223,882 spent$6,993 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $223,882.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $3.7M to $3.1M (−15%).
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 30% · 2019 17% · 2020 27% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 21% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY’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
WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 60% · 2021 54% · 2022 55% · 2023 55% — 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
WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $595 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
WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY: 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 WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,445 to it, the largest being Theodore M Louana H and Monica A Frois Family Foundation Inc ($4,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $11,445 in grants to WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- Theodore M Louana H and Monica A Frois Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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