Maine · Nonprofit
Health Equity Alliance
Health Equity Alliance (Maine) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,914,626 to it, the largest being Regional Medical Center at Lubec ME Inc ($677,308). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $190k
What Health Equity Alliance does
Mission
The Down East Aids Network and the Health Equity Alliance empowers marginalized communities to improve their health and wellbeing and affect social and cultural change by facilitating collaboration, education, advocacy, and action
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Harm Reduction & Overdose PreventionOur Harm Reduction Services offer strategies that reduce the risk of dying from an overdose. We aim to support people who use drugs, with education to mitigage the risk of an overdose while it's happening. In addition, our syringe services program (SSP) is a community-based program that provides access to sterile syringes and safer use supplies and facilitates the safe disposal of used syringes. In our participation with other allied organizations, we provide education about overdose prevention and Naloxone distribution and education.
$1,117,347 spent75% of program spendingHIV Care and PreventionOur HIV Care is provided through Medical Care Management Services offered to persons living with HIV/AIDS. Our Care Team provides ongoing needs assessments to inform coordination of care such as referrals and wellness management, dental care, medical care, social services, and resources for immediate and long-term care.Prevention and HIV Testing are provided using the most recent testing technology through the CDC and we conduct testing at local universities, healthcare facilities, and community organizations as well as community events. In addition, we provide LGBTQ+ education for all ages within the communities we serve.
$372,449 spent25% of program spendingAdvocacy & Community EngagementHealth Equity Alliance has fought for equality for the LGBTQ+ community as well as Harm Reduction that addresses the opioid crisis here in Maine. Most organizations tend to shy away from lobbying and advocacy, but we believe that we can increase the impact of our work by having representation at the state and local levels of government in Maine. As an organization, we have shifted from just responding to problems in our community to trying to address the root causes of those problems. Generally, this means changing public attitudes, local and national policies, and market systems that underlie our work.
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,489,796.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $456k to $801k (+76%).
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: 2017 24% · 2018 19% · 2019 20% · 2020 34% · 2021 24% · 2022 24% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Joshua D'Alessio
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $263k → $197k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Health Equity Alliance’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
Health Equity Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; 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 Health Equity Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 45% · 2019 33% · 2020 26% · 2021 34% · 2022 38% · 2023 51% — broadly stable.
“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
47% of Health Equity Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
74% of Health Equity Alliance's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k 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.
Organizations like Health Equity Alliance
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Health Equity Alliance: 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 Health Equity Alliance?
- Health Equity Alliance (Maine) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,914,626 to it, the largest being Regional Medical Center at Lubec ME Inc ($677,308). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Health Equity Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,914,626 in grants to Health Equity Alliance, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Health Equity Alliance?
- Regional Medical Center at Lubec ME Inc is the largest funder on record, with $677,308 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Health Equity Alliance 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 17 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