Maine · Nonprofit
BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC
BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC (Maine) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,489 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ($530,203). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $616k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Bread of Life Ministries Inc does
Mission
Bread of life ministries feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless, and provides services that help people change their lives and take personal responsibility. God calls us to minister to one another and assist those in need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Bolm housing - bolm offers temporary and permanent housing in preparing clients for a stable and grounded life within the community. By offering clean, safe, affordable housing choices to clients, bolm can further facilitate their transitions from homelessness to the local community and break what is often a cycle in life of both poverty and intermittent homelessness. Bolm has 101 units of housing in the augusta area. Many of these units are subsidized and offer tenant-based assistance, which reduces the cost of rent for a family or single paying for that apartment.
$607,456 spent$806,372 earned by the program32% of program spendingShelter - started in 1986, the homeless shelter offers a warm, welcoming, and safe facility to those needing shelter. There are currently 40 family shelter beds, 14 veteran shelter beds and 101 units of housing. Currently we see a mix of families, couples, single parents with children, and singles. -the family shelter accommodates 26 beds and there are unique occasions where we will put someone on the couch for a special need. We commonly see 8,700 bed days per year for occupancy. This number comes from adding up the number of beds that are filled each night for a calendar year. -our veterans' shelter accommodates 14 beds and all beds are filled in collaboration with togus medical center homless services. This means we cannot take veterans off the street and into the shelter without them first going through services at togus. We commonly see 4,500 bed nights per calendar year at the veterans shelter. -we have a total of 101 units of housing in the city of augusta and this is a combination of transitional, permanent and guest house/lodger accomodations. We have 48 units which are considered permanent housing and 12 units are identified as transitional housing apartments. We also…
$704,570 spent37% of program spendingSoup kitchen - provides breakfast and noontime meals to the hungry, as well as a resource center. The kitchen provides counceling and other services to the homeless. The soup kitchen is more of a "full meal" kitchen in that it provides a complete, hot meal monday through friday throughout the year. The soup kitchen offers a small, but welcoming space to anyone seeking a hot meal, no questions asked. One paid staff person oversees the kitchen with the help of hundreds of volunteers. We offer take home meals for those who are homebound or who are unable to enter the soup kitchen setting. Through generous food donations from businesses and the community, we are able to share our donated food with other shelters, other area food banks, church food cupboards, and a partner shelter, the family violence project. The soup kitchen is open monday through friday for breakfast from 8:30am - 9:30am and lunch from 11am to 12:30 pm. Over 6,000 hours are volunteered each year helping with donation pickups, preparation, serving and cleaning. In 2023 bolm was able to provide over 33,000 high quality meals in our soup kitchen.
$536,804 spent28% of program spendingCommunity support - the center for life skills is a key component in a guest's transition from homelessness to stability in the community. Started in 2005 with a focus on vocational job skills, it has evolved to a multifaceted training and educational source for our guests. The facility is set up to accommodate classroom training, small group sessions or individual internet use for job searches, houseing searches, or access to other community services related to the transition from homelessness to stability. We are in the business of offering hope at bolm. Those who stay with us are connected to experienced case managers, who work with the whole persons and the varying elements that have led them to homelessness. Every staff member at bolm plays a role in supporting success with each client, by helping them to complete housing applications, search for employment and apartments, develop new life skills, access care for both their mental and physical health and we cheerlead each and every success. Bolm also supports the community through a benevolence program, which receives requests for many needs ranging from help with obtaining a birth certificate, to support with an apartment…
$63,314 spent$16,000 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,912,144.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.0M to $5.4M (+8%).
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 36% · 2018 29% · 2019 25% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 38% · 2023 31% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income fell $68k → $64k.
3 of 15 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.
From the IRS filings of BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC’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
BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 83% · 2021 78% · 2022 87% · 2023 95% — 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
29% of BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
92% of BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC has grown faster than half of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.1M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$4.1M
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 BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC?
- BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC (Maine) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,489 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY ($530,203). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $616,489 in grants to BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF KENNEBEC VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $530,203 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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