Maine · Nonprofit
Dignity First
Dignity First (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,113 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $97k
What Dignity First does
Mission
Our mission is to create and sustain no barrier, recovery oriented, supported, permanent housing for unhoused people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Dignity First was created to work on the problem of homelessness in the Bangor area. Our goal is to replicate the Community First! Village out of Austin, TX in a way that will best serve the needs here in Maine. This village plan provides not only housing, but a supportive community that surrounds all residents. It has intentional neighbors who choose to join the community that surrounds all the residents. It has intentional neighbors who choose to join the previously unhoused neighbors and live side-by-side with them. We know lack of housing in Maine and across the USA is a huge problem and only growing worse. This project aims to alleviate some of the pressures on the lower end of the housing market in our area. We also know that homelessness affects our entire community, not only those by it physically. Because we don't yet have the funding to create the village, we are currently working to build a support system tat can help people being housed by other organizations, so that we will be prepared with our community once we have obtained the spot fo the physical village to be located. There are many providers working already in Bangor, and are intent is not to replace them, but…
$24,846 spentof which $2,109 as grants$2,595 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,846.
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
Jamie Beck
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $16 → $20k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Dignity First’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
Dignity First leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Dignity First.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of Dignity First'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 $46k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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
Dignity First runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Dignity First
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 Dignity First: 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 Dignity First?
- Dignity First (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,113 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Dignity First have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $96,113 in grants to Dignity First, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dignity First?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dignity First 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 6 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