Maine · Nonprofit
CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC
CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC (Maine) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,017 to it, the largest being Maine Cancer Foundation ($121,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $286k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $438k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Christine B Foundation Inc does
Mission
The christine b. Foundation (cbf) supports those facing cancer by extending access to healthy food, nutritional information, and community connections essential to their strength and comfort.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cbf's cancer nutrition services and related nourishing hope trial activities represent the organization's largest programmatic expense in fy25. This program provides various personalized services, including hospital based produce, home-delievered medically tailored grocery packages, and oncology dietitian counseling. This is available at no cost to individuals in active cancer treatment, recovery, and members of their households, ensuring equitable access to nutrient-rich food regardless of cancer type, age, income level, geographic location, or race. During the program year, cbf had 4,502 encounters with 670 patients, across 8 maine counties, reaching 1,588 individuals overall. Expenses were used to source, assemble, and distribute 2,745 grocery packages (equivalent to 82,350 meals), 1,350 produce packages, and 20 dietitian counseling sessions. More than 100 volunteers supported safe, reliable, and compassionate assembly, hospital-based distribution, and home delivery services across 11,500 square miles. This expense also supported the ongoing development and implementation of cbf's multi-year nourishing hope trial, which evaluates how access to healthy food and dietetic…
$290,877 spent97% of program spendingThe christine b foundation received 10,000 from the maine cancer foundation to provide cancer patients with direct financial aid. Cbf opened an application process for financial aid requests via mail, phone, and online (max of 500/individual), for patients with cancer living in piscataquis and penobscot county. 98 applicants were received (+61% yoy), with requests totaling 47,760 (+53%). Applicants were asked to share how funds would be used, here is a breakdown - food (76%), housing (50%), transportation (50%), medical bills (48%), other (32%). 88% of applicant agree or strongly agreed that their cancer diagnosis impacted their financial security. A staff and board of directors committee reviewed applicants. All applicants received financial aid. Cbf prioritized applicants seeking assistance with food, those in active treatment, and demonstrated cancer has a strong financial impact. 31 individuals were awarded 322.59.
$10,000 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $300,877.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $142k to $482k (+240%).
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 0% · 2021 4% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $500 → $151k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION 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
CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
78% 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 CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 44% · 2022 30% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
95% of CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION 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. $80k 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
CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION 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 CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC?
- CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC (Maine) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,017 to it, the largest being Maine Cancer Foundation ($121,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $438,017 in grants to CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION INC?
- Maine Cancer Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $121,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTINE B FOUNDATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 17 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