Maine · Nonprofit
ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER
ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,572,821 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($14,491,304). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $43M
What Alfond Youth & Community Center does
Mission
To inspire and enable all young people and their families to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our facilities serve both youth and adults in programs including athletics, childcare (after school & summer camps), fitness, wellness, aquatics & aquatic safety. Our childcare programs serve over 400 youth per week, with a range of steam programming, physical education, life skills and mentorship. We offer program services and memberships to the community on sliding income scales.
$3,702,289 spentof which $1,116,084 as grants$1,578,403 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,702,289.
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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $20M to $27M (+34%).
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: 2019 0% · 2021 16% · 2022 14% · 2023 2% · 2024 8% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Ken Walsh
CEO
Board chair
Joseph Reisert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $846k → $920k.
10 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $452k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Waterville Area Boys & Girls Club). These are real filings, and they are not money ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. 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
ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 90% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 80% · 2021 83% · 2022 79% · 2023 68% — 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.
How long its funders stay
28% of ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $589k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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
ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER has grown faster than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Agriculture$98k
- Department of Defense$55k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER
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
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Waterville Area Boys & Girls Club · exempt
- Waterville Area YMCA · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: 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 ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER?
- ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,572,821 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($14,491,304). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $24,572,821 in grants to ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER?
- HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,491,304 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER 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 51 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