Maine · Nonprofit
CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC
CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,126 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $520k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $297k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Chebeague Recreation Center Inc does
Mission
To provide children, teenagers, adults and seniors with a facility in which they can participate year round in activities specifically designed to fulfill their recreational, educational, and social needs and to enhance their skills and enjoyment. The activities will be conducted in a positive alcohol and drug-free environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The recreation center provides year-round recreational and workout facilites, adult educational and fitness classes, a teen drop-in center, youth programs, summer camps and an afterschool program. It serves approximately 300 island residents and 400 summer families.
$137,376 spent$116,769 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe chebeague recreation center has an outdoor pool facility that is open to the public in the summer, from early july to early september each year. Both island and summer visitors actively participate in the various pool actvities offered to the community.
$52,734 spent$6,417 earned by the program15% of program spendingThe kids' place is an early childhood education program that attracts island kids and visitors year round. The program is a vital support to working families and is critical to the success of the year-round island population. It currently serves 6 families year round.
$154,565 spent$47,047 earned by the program45% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $344,675.
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 2022 to 2023, from $994k to $1.1M (+11%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 10% · 2022 8% · 2023 18% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 held at 3 funders, grant income fell $42k → $40k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER 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
CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 65% · 2019 72% · 2020 55% · 2021 75% · 2022 75% · 2023 87% — 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
86% of CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC'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 $43k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC: 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 CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC?
- CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,126 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $297,126 in grants to CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER INC?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEBEAGUE RECREATION CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing