Maine · Nonprofit
ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY
ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $220k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $361k
What Ecumenical Food Pantry of Lincoln County does
Mission
Provide food and necessities, free of charge for food-insecure people residing in the towns of damariscotta, newcastle, and nobleboro, maine as well as other residents of lincoln county as supplies are available.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization is able to provide food and other necessities for food insecure residents of three towns in lincoln county and other towns of the county if supplies are available.
$68,891 spent50% of program spendingThe food pantry helped to feed 843 people in 365 different households. The change in number of households needing help was up by 23% in 2025. The food pantry has seen a marked increase in the number of people requesting deliveries. Most of those people need delivery help because of lack of trasportation or because of age or infirmity. The change in number in weekly visits was up by 23% in 2025. The community support has also increased in 2025. They have received significant donations of both money and food. The food pantry is operated solely by volunteers.
$68,891 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $137,782.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $283k to $361k (+28%).
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.
96% of ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.
Against its field
ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY: 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 ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY?
- ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $13,750 in grants to ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
- Who is the largest funder of ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY OF LINCOLN COUNTY 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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