Arts & Culture Funding in Maine
Total granted
$139.4M
Funders
207
Grants
2,520
Organizations funded
364
Maine · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Arts & Culture in Maine
Imperigo has identified 207 funders that made 2,520 grants totaling $139.4M to 364 arts & culture organizations in Maine, with a median grant of $15K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 1 of 4
$13.3M
$1.9M
$14.6M
$265K
$635K
12.
Unity Foundation
$45K
$50K
$28K
$25K
$1.0M
$20K
$519K
20.
United Way Inc
$300K
$197K
$1.1M
$350K
$718K
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to arts & culture work in Maine, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 12 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.
Other Causes Funded in Maine
About This Data
A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering arts & culture work, with an address in Maine. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.
Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable arts & culture funding in Maine, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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