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GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE

GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE (Maine) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $536,490 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($102,518). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$505k
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$536k
Net assets
$373k
10/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Greater Portland Family Promise does

Mission

Greater Portland Family Promise helps homeless and low-income families in the Greater Portland area achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Through its Homelessness Prevention and Housing Stabilization program, in 2024 Greater Portland Family Promiseserved 72 families who were experiencing homelessness, at risk of losing their housing, or facing eviction. GPFP provided these families with services including case management, housing navigation, financial assistance, monthly food distribution, and other support to meet basic needs. Several of those families received those services at our or partner transitional housing sites before moving into more permanent housing.

    $631,332 spent$4,800 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $631,332.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($89k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($56k)2020 Revenue 199 ($177k) Expenses 179 ($136k) Net assets 165 ($92k)2021 Revenue 320 ($285k) Expenses 318 ($242k) Net assets 329 ($183k)2022 Revenue 349 ($312k) Expenses 433 ($330k) Net assets 383 ($212k)2023 Revenue 1243 ($1.1M) Expenses 1086 ($828k) Net assets 974 ($541k)2024 Revenue 567 ($505k) Expenses 945 ($721k) Net assets 673 ($373k)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (567)Expenses (945)Net assets (673)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $214k to $542k (+153%).

$79k
$101k
$185k
$214k
$542k
$397k
201720202021202220232024
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 17% · 2022 29% · 2023 72% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$41k
’20
$43k
’21
−$18k
’22
$280k
’23
−$215k
’24
5.1
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

Michelle Lamm

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed16161818
Joined·+0+7+0
No longer listed·050
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $21k → $112k.

6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE’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

GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

71% 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 GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE.

19%
largest funder
46%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 48% · 2021 37% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% — 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

44% of GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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

70% of GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
NH
MN
IL
MA
NJ
CT
FL

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

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199k 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

Against its field

GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−43% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 7%Fundraising 5%

Governance

17
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE?
GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE (Maine) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $536,490 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($102,518). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $536,490 in grants to GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE?
Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $102,518 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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