Maine · Nonprofit
Coastal Opportunities
Coastal Opportunities (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $431,792 to it, the largest being OLIVE A COATES CHARITABLE TRUST ($368,897). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $432k
- Net assets
- $17M
What Coastal Opportunities does
Mission
Coastal Opportunities is a non-profit Maine Corporation that operates to assist adults with intellectual disabilities to become participating members in the social and economic communities through developmental training day programs and providing housing for adults with developmental disabilities in the mid-coast Maine region. Housing is provided in eight different facilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Vera Brandes Group Home, a six-bed boarding care facility, provides meals, lodging, and training.
$424,876 spent$362,180 earned by the program9% of program spendingThe Katherine Brown Home, an eight-bed intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/ID).
$1,467,936 spent$1,599,984 earned by the program31% of program spendingPersonal Social and Independent Living - Developmental training program designed to help adults with developmental disabilities attain a higher level of functional ability.
$623,379 spent$705,044 earned by the program13% of program spendingVarious services and housing provided for people with physical and intellectual disabilities.
$2,259,309 spent$2,323,972 earned by the program47% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,775,500.
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.
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 $14M to $16M (+13%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 11% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Clifford B Winn
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $34k → $59k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Coastal Opportunities’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
Coastal Opportunities leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 90% · 2019 86% · 2020 88% · 2021 71% · 2022 75% · 2023 86% — 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
97% of Coastal Opportunities's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $747 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like Coastal Opportunities
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
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Coastal Opportunities: 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 Coastal Opportunities?
- Coastal Opportunities (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $431,792 to it, the largest being OLIVE A COATES CHARITABLE TRUST ($368,897). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Coastal Opportunities have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $431,792 in grants to Coastal Opportunities, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Coastal Opportunities?
- OLIVE A COATES CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $368,897 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Coastal Opportunities 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing