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HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER

HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,500 to it, the largest being BILL AND JOAN ALFOND FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$346k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$148k
Net assets
$250k
3/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What Heart of Maine Resource Center does

Mission

Heart of Maine Resource Center was founded in 2018 to bridge persistan gaps in access to food and supportive services for neighbors in the greater Dexter ME area. Transending the current community barrie

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Food distribution of 1776 boxes to 38 towns and more than 3800

    $17,784 spent
    44% of program spending
  2. biannual Workcamp week in partnerhsip with Group Mission Trips provide

    $22,335 spent
    56% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,119.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($84k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($134k)2024 Revenue 414 ($346k) Expenses 356 ($150k) Net assets 187 ($250k)
20232024
Revenue (414)Expenses (356)Net assets (187)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 2023 to 2024, from $134k to $250k (+87%).

$134k
$250k
20232024
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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$41k
’23
$196k
’24
0.9
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $60k.

1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE 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

HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

34%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 67% — 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.

Where its funders are

93% of HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
MA
OH

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

’21
’22
’23
Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin57% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)314% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

27% of spending goes to programs.

Program 27%Management 63%Fundraising 10%

Governance

8
board members
0%
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 HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER?
HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,500 to it, the largest being BILL AND JOAN ALFOND FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $147,500 in grants to HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE CENTER?
BILL AND JOAN ALFOND FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEART OF MAINE RESOURCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 12 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