Maine · Nonprofit
AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM
AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM (Maine) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,310,195 to it, the largest being The Rodney and Mary Barton Smith Family Foundation ($1,300,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Aroostook County Action Program does
Mission
Aroostook County Action Program, inc. Provides services and resources that help individuals and families achieve greater economic independence. As a leader, or in partnership with others, acap strengthens the community by responding to human needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Early care and education -early care and education provides head start, child care, early intervention, & child care food programs. Accomplishments: through an agreement with maine department of education, sad1 and acap continued partnership to expand the enrollment of the sad1 preschool program by classrooms operated by acap and serving district students. Two of these sad1 classrooms operate 6 hours a day/5 days a week on the school schedule. In addition to this partnership, acap has been in conversation with other school districts to discuss future partnership and collaborations. The caribou early care facility underwent a renovation this year, resulting in additional classroom space, equipment, and a more modern learning environment for the children enrolled at that center.
$8,176,512 spentof which $547,501 as grants$889,538 earned by the program49% of program spendingEnergy and housing services - energy and housing services include energy assistance, such as low-income home energy assistance (liheap), energy crisis intervention (ecip), affordable housing repair and replacement program, lead hazard control program, home ownership education, weatherization, and home ownership support counseling, family development accounts, micro business loans, above ground storage tank and central heating improvement programs. Accomplishments: energy and housing department funding remained stable. Additionally, programs provided agency customers with central heating improvements and system replacements, homeownership foreclosure
$3,289,443 spentof which $837,160 as grants20% of program spendingCommunity health services - community health services operates the supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (wic); and provides community oral health education and dental services. Accomplishments: wic provided services to individuals and families in aroostook county. The oral health team provided sealants, flouride varnishes, and oral health screenings last year. The annual youth prevention day brings together middle school students from across our region to learn about and discuss risk reduction awareness.
$2,296,469 spentof which $1,112,957 as grants14% of program spendingWorkforce development workforce development offers services to assist people who are seeking employment as well as businesses seeking employees. Services offered include workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa) services as well as other job training opportunities and programs. Accomplishments: through a women in apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations (wanto) grant from the us department of labor, acap supported cohorts in four communities in northern and eastern maine. Participating women were placed with several local employers. We served 177 individuals through workforce programs. Through our statewide partnership in the affordable care act navigator grant, we were able to enroll aroostook county residents in the health insurance marketplace.
$2,923,563 spentof which $380,940 as grants18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,685,987.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.3M to $10M (+60%).
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: 2017 89% · 2018 91% · 2019 89% · 2020 83% · 2021 92% · 2022 87% · 2023 82% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $346k → $820k.
4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 26% · 2019 74% · 2020 36% · 2021 19% · 2022 82% · 2023 61% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
56% of AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$48.6M
- Department of Labor$659k
- Federal Communications Commission$200k
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 AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM?
- AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM (Maine) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,310,195 to it, the largest being The Rodney and Mary Barton Smith Family Foundation ($1,300,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $4,310,195 in grants to AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM?
- The Rodney and Mary Barton Smith Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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