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Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation

Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$69k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$175k
Net assets
$52k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 98%
01What it does

What Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation does

Mission

We work to empower youth and community members to discover, create and cultivate a love for meaningful, relevant and authentic learning experiences.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Katahdin Cubs After Care- Free, nature based aftercare for groups of up to 8 children, ages 4-7 who attend Katahdin Elementary school in RSU 89.

    $24,571 spent
    30% of program spending
  2. The Orchard- Self directed learning environment for local school groups and homeschooled children focused on creative, critical thinking and outdoor experiences.

    $56,053 spent
    70% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,624.

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 ($92k) Expenses 100 ($58k) Net assets 100 ($64k)2024 Revenue 95 ($88k) Expenses 151 ($88k) Net assets 99 ($64k)2025 Revenue 75 ($69k) Expenses 138 ($81k) Net assets 81 ($52k)
202320242025
Revenue (75)Expenses (138)Net assets (81)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $64k to $52k (−19%).

$64k
$64k
$52k
202320242025
Total assets

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’23
−$515
’24
−$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation’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

Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation's revenue fell 25% between 2023 and 2025.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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 Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation: 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 Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation?
Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $175,000 in grants to Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation?
Elmina B Sewall Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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