Maine · Nonprofit
BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY
BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,001 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($63,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $250k
What Bowdoinham Food Pantry does
Mission
This is a food pantry serving residents of Bowdoin and Bowdoinham Maine. Each week we serve 49 - 66 households including weekly food provided through a weekend food for kids program serving 25 to 35 children and their families each week. Food is also delivered to those who are home-bound. We operate a food pantry at the Bowdoinham Community School.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, we provided food to 186 households, which included 326 adults and 183 children, through 1723 visits to the pantry. We also welcomed 60 new clients. Currently, 15 families (44 children) are enrolled in our Weekend Food for Kids program (formerly known as the Backpack Program), and 13 individuals receive weekly home delivery. Open to all Food Pantry at the community school.
$116,012 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $116,012.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $194k to $250k (+29%).
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.
95% of BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
John Treat
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $16k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY’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
BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
79% of BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $19k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY
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
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY: 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 BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY?
- BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,001 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($63,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $91,001 in grants to BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $63,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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