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JAMES L MAHER CENTER

JAMES L MAHER CENTER (Rhode Island) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $715,828 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($342,696). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$15M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$716k
Net assets
$3.9M
7/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What James L Maher Center does

Mission

To promote the general welfare of those with developmental and intellectual disabilities by providing programs to support their individual needs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Residential programs - the organization operates group homes with four to nine residents per home to provide developmentally and/or physically disabled adults with a community based residential opportunity. Residences are supervised while at the residence. During the year, the number of beds involved totaled 47.

    $9,187,904 spent$11,332,325 earned by the program
    73% of program spending
  2. Vocational programs - vocational programs are offered to give employment opportunities to adults who are disabled. These programs include work activities in janitorial, job placement, work incentive, and adult development.

    $3,056,784 spent$2,766,530 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  3. Garden center - the shop at the maher garden center is a warm, welcoming place that offers a vibrant array of plants, gifts, gardening accessories and supplies, and more. The garden center provides individual, one-on-one training to prepare people for jobs in horticulture. Volunteers from the uri master gardener program partner with our participants and staff to grow vegetables and flowers in our greenhouses, complementing garden projects at our ten supportive residences.

    $345,737 spent$166,150 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,590,425.

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 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 104 ($11M) Expenses 104 ($11M) Net assets 99 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 99 ($11M) Expenses 96 ($10M) Net assets 114 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 116 ($12M) Expenses 103 ($11M) Net assets 195 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 98 ($11M) Expenses 102 ($11M) Net assets 171 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 114 ($12M) Expenses 112 ($12M) Net assets 181 ($3.1M)2023 Revenue 126 ($14M) Expenses 121 ($13M) Net assets 212 ($3.6M)2024 Revenue 138 ($15M) Expenses 135 ($15M) Net assets 227 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (135)Net assets (227)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 2019 to 2020, from $4.4M to $6.1M (+39%).

$3.8M
$4.1M
$4.4M
$6.1M
$5.5M
$4.9M
$5.3M
$5.3M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 17% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of JAMES L MAHER CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,405 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$24k
’17
−$23k
’18
$260k
’19
$1.4M
’20
−$407k
’21
$175k
’22
$529k
’23
$253k
’24
1.7
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

Lynne Maher

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1615119891010
Joined·+2+0+0+1+1+5+0
No longer listed·3422040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $166k.

2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 JAMES L MAHER 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

JAMES L MAHER CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 JAMES L MAHER CENTER.

48%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 49% · 2022 62% · 2023 84% — 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

50% of JAMES L MAHER CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

JAMES L MAHER CENTER draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 6 states in all.

NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
TX

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

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Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $343k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

JAMES L MAHER CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding JAMES L MAHER CENTER receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25.8M on record.

Federal$25.8M
grants $0contracts $25.8M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$25.8M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
14%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

RI

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Questions and answers

Who funds JAMES L MAHER CENTER?
JAMES L MAHER CENTER (Rhode Island) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $715,828 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($342,696). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JAMES L MAHER CENTER have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $715,828 in grants to JAMES L MAHER CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JAMES L MAHER CENTER?
THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $342,696 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JAMES L MAHER CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing