Maine · Nonprofit
Families First Community Center
Families First Community Center (Maine) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $410,886 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($181,010). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $517k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $411k
- Net assets
- $907k
What Families First Community Center does
Mission
The orgainzation's mission is to break the cycle of homelessness by equipping families with minor children with the skills they need to gain self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Focus on four areas to improving a family's situation:1. Life Skills - Instruction on how to maintain housing, job coaching, interpersonal skill building, housekeeping skills, teaching grocery basics, sewing, teaching personal finance, offering parenting classes and assistance obtaining a drivers license.2. Education and Job Skills - Providing employment opportunities, HiSET and adullt education classes, vocation and technical training, higher education, tutoring both adults and children, volunteering opportunities and enrichment activities for children.3. Medical and Therapeutic - Assisting with setting up regular well check-ups, optical and dental care, physical, occupational, and/or speech therapy, drug and alcohol treatment, help obtaining health care coverage, advocate for adults and children with disabilities, creative therapies, and excercise classes.4. Safety and Stability - Providing case management to formulate and ensure success with the family's life plan.
$303,289 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $303,289.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $496k to $1.1M (+116%).
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: 2019 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of Families First Community Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Shaina Mugford
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $66k → $56k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Families First Community Center’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
Families First Community Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 Families First Community Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 44% · 2019 58% · 2020 66% · 2021 50% · 2022 89% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of Families First Community Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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
Families First Community Center draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Families First Community Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Families First Community Center
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Families First Community Center: 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 Families First Community Center?
- Families First Community Center (Maine) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $410,886 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($181,010). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Families First Community Center have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $410,886 in grants to Families First Community Center, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Families First Community Center?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $181,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Families First Community Center 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 20 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