Maine · Nonprofit
FAME Leaders
FAME Leaders (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $909k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $30
What FAME Leaders does
Mission
Student loan repayment assistance to people who live and work in Maine in a STEM-designated occupation at a Maine-based employer.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Alfond Leaders Student Debt Reduction Program provides student loan repayment assistance to people who live and work in Maine in a STEM-designated occupation at a Maine-based employer. Alfond Leaders may qualify for loan repayment of up to half of their outstanding student loan balance at the time of application to the program, not to exceed $60,000.Students who have completed or will complete their degree or certificate within months of application cycles are welcome to apply. Existing Maine based STEM workers with student loan debt who are not recent college graduates are also welcome to apply. (Continued on Schedule O)The loan repayment awards made to recent college graduates or students who will be graduating, if selected, will not be finalized until they have begun a STEM position in Maine and have relocated to the state.
$610,627 spentof which $610,627 as grants$610,727 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $610,627.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $2k to $30 (−98%).
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.
100% of FAME Leaders’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $8k.
From the IRS filings of FAME Leaders’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FAME Leaders's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FAME Leaders's revenue grew 36% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FAME Leaders
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Finance Authority of Maine · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAME Leaders: 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 FAME Leaders?
- FAME Leaders (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAME Leaders have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to FAME Leaders, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAME Leaders?
- HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAME Leaders 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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