Maine · Nonprofit
KIDS FIRST CENTER
KIDS FIRST CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,600 to it, the largest being United Way Inc ($105,876). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $420k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $615k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Kids First Center does
Mission
To help parents learn to put the needs of their children first, and to minimize the emotional trauma of their separatation and divorce. Support groups are also held for children and adolescents so they can share their experiences and learn positive coping skills. The center assists families that experience domestic violence and addresses ways their children can be cared for in a safe and positive manner when separation or divorce occurs. Additionally, the center provides opportunities for professionals who work with families to collaborate and receive continuing education to further the belief that separation and divorce should occur in a non-adversarial manner, while addressing the children's needs first.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Kids first conducts co-parenting classes and support groups to help parents learn to put the needs of their children first, and to minimize the emotional trauma of separation and divorce. Support groups are also held for children and adolescents so they can share their experiences and learn positive coping skills.
$272,999 spent$165,243 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $272,999.
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 2022 to 2023, from $251k to $126k (−50%).
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 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 4% · 2021 28% · 2022 14% · 2023 17% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $71k → $85k.
5 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 KIDS FIRST 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
KIDS FIRST CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
39% 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 KIDS FIRST CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 35% · 2019 21% · 2020 20% · 2021 23% · 2022 28% · 2023 18% — 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
30% of KIDS FIRST CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
72% of KIDS FIRST CENTER's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k 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.
Organizations like KIDS FIRST 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIDS FIRST CENTER: 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 KIDS FIRST CENTER?
- KIDS FIRST CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,600 to it, the largest being United Way Inc ($105,876). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS FIRST CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $614,600 in grants to KIDS FIRST CENTER, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS FIRST CENTER?
- United Way Inc is the largest funder on record, with $105,876 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS FIRST 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 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