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Community Concepts Inc

Community Concepts Inc (Maine) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,686,825 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST ($10,815,952). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$29M
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$11M
28/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Community Concepts Inc does

Mission

To strengthen individuals, families and communities in Western Maine by providing diverse programs, by engaging in strategic partnerships, and through advocacy that addresses the barriers to promote economic opportunities for all.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

During the year, the Organization completed a merger with Oxford County Mental Health Service (OCMHS), a 501(c)(3) public charity. As a result of the merger, Community Concepts. Inc. (as surviving entity) now oversees all activities and operations previously undertaken by OCMHS. The merger was undertaken to enhance operational efficiency, strengthen the delivery of charitable services, and better align resources in support of the organizations' shared exempt purposes.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. Children's Services - This program serves pre-school children with Head Start and Early Head Start services at a variety of locations throughout Oxford and Franklin Counties. It also provides center day care and support for home day care providers.

    $8,694,432 spentof which $524,356 as grants$708,010 earned by the program
    32% of program spending

  2. Housing & Energy - This program provides needy families with home replacement or repair services including a furnace program, lead inspection services, and several energy saving programs including a home insulation program. Additionally, the program has helped over 415 new homeowners build or rehab and own their homes through self-help housing program.

    $7,249,610 spentof which $5,254,762 as grants$1,512,308 earned by the program
    27% of program spending

  3. Behavioral Health Services - These programs provide mental health and substance use services to individuals in Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties, including care coordination, crisis services, outpatient treatment, peer recovery, case management, residential supports, and a host of other community-based programming.

    $4,487,820 spentof which $365,341 as grants$3,830,731 earned by the program
    17% of program spending

  4. Family Services - Consists of Maine Families and Prevention Councils. Maine Families serves Oxford, Androscoggin, and Northern Cumberland Counties. The program enrolled 323 families and conducted 3,292 home visits. The Prevention Councils in Androscoggin and Oxford Counties conducted 23 parent enrichment classes and 44 community provider trainings with a combined total of 703 participants.

    $3,459,464 spentof which $138 as grants$31,409 earned by the program
    13% of program spending

  5. Other Program Services include Development, Property Management, and Community Services.

    $3,022,566 spentof which $357,554 as grants$534,976 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,913,892.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($18M) Expenses 100 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($6.2M)2018 Revenue 114 ($20M) Expenses 108 ($20M) Net assets 98 ($6.1M)2019 Revenue 119 ($21M) Expenses 113 ($21M) Net assets 84 ($5.2M)2020 Revenue 136 ($24M) Expenses 125 ($24M) Net assets 93 ($5.7M)2021 Revenue 184 ($33M) Expenses 174 ($33M) Net assets 89 ($5.5M)2022 Revenue 311 ($55M) Expenses 291 ($55M) Net assets 95 ($5.9M)2023 Revenue 169 ($30M) Expenses 143 ($27M) Net assets 145 ($9.0M)2024 Revenue 152 ($27M) Expenses 130 ($25M) Net assets 189 ($12M)2025 Revenue 166 ($29M) Expenses 160 ($30M) Net assets 181 ($11M)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (160)Net assets (181)

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 $17M (+24%).

$13M
$12M
$12M
$14M
$17M
$18M
$18M
$20M
$20M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 64% · 2019 69% · 2020 74% · 2021 83% · 2022 86% · 2023 84% · 2024 77% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.1M
’17
−$98k
’18
−$261k
’19
$540k
’20
−$245k
’21
$375k
’22
$3.1M
’23
$2.4M
’24
−$795k
’25
0.2
months of
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

James Martin

CEO

Board chair

Ed Barrett

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed271919282322212223
Joined·+2+3+9+2+2+7+3+5
No longer listed·103073824
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $959k → $2.4M.

Funder
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total
Maine Children's Trustunclassified
$11M
United Way Incidentity?
$229k
Maine Cancer Foundationunclassified
$110k
funders
12
11
11
20
18
13
17
19
11

6 of 36 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 Community Concepts Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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

Community Concepts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 Community Concepts Inc.

61%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 53% · 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 64% · 2022 53% · 2023 65% — 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.

How long its funders stay

64% of Community Concepts Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

78% of Community Concepts Inc's grant income comes from Maine funders.

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NY
MA
OH
NC
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding Community Concepts Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70.1M on record.

Federal$70.1M
grants $70.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$63.1M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.7M
  • Department of Agriculture$2.1M
  • Department of Labor$1.2M

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 Community Concepts 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

Community Concepts Finance Corporation91%New Communities Inc85%Catholic Charities Maine83%Portland Community Health Center82%Charlotte White Center82%United Cerebral Palsy of Northeastern Maine82%Northern Maine General81%Community Clinical Services Inc81%

Nationally

Community Concepts Finance Corporation91%New Communities Inc85%Ammonoosuc Community Health Services Inc84%Catholic Charities Maine83%Portland Community Health Center82%Home HealthCare Hospice & Community Services Inc82%Charlotte White Center82%United Cerebral Palsy of Northeastern Maine82%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 10 related entities

  • Community Concepts Finance Corporation · exempt
  • Lewiston Auburn Community Housing Inc · exempt
  • Community Concepts Development Corporation · exempt
  • Mount David Housing Inc · exempt
  • Mount Blue Housing Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Concepts 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 Community Concepts Inc?
Community Concepts Inc (Maine) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,686,825 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST ($10,815,952). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Community Concepts Inc have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $17,686,825 in grants to Community Concepts Inc, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Community Concepts Inc?
MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,815,952 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Community Concepts 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.

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 36 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