Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Association for New Americans
Maine Association for New Americans (Maine) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,396,225 to it, the largest being United Way Inc ($427,224). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $995k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $318k
What Maine Association for New Americans does
Mission
MANA is an immigrant-led organization that promotes social & personal empowerment of immigrants in Maine through raising awareness of individual and collective trauma and how they affect our lives, expanding people's resilience building strategies by exploring various resources, connecting people with their peers across cultures.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through its transportation program MANA provides free transport to community members to medical appointment that include general checkups, screening, vaccinations, regular visits, chronic diseases, illlness treatments and mental, social health services. This program also includes transportaion for general assistance involving appointments regarding health insurance, rental assistance, grocery shopping, food pantries and workforce development training. In 2024, this program provided 9,072 rides.
$582,666 spent$23,175 earned by the program66% of program spendingStrengthenME is a program MANA provides for emotional support to immigrants and community members affected by individual or collective trauma due to their immigrant journey or other life stressors using intentional peer support model in the form of one-on-one or sessions with MANA Wellness Partners, peer-led support groups. MANA also provides wellness programs to community members of all ages that include indoor and outdoor programs with goals to support community members in thier trauma healing journey and does community outreach and public awareness around destigmatizing mental health challenges and substance abuse.
$302,365 spent34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $885,031.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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 $230k to $375k (+63%).
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: 2021 77% · 2022 46% · 2023 60% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Maine Association for New Americans’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Yvette Unezase
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $17k → $478k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Maine Association for New Americans’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
Maine Association for New Americans leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 Maine Association for New Americans.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 47% · 2022 49% · 2023 41% — 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
80% of Maine Association for New Americans's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 43% 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
58% of Maine Association for New Americans's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $351k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
Maine Association for New Americans has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,990 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,990 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Maine Association for New Americans
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maine Association for New Americans: 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 Maine Association for New Americans?
- Maine Association for New Americans (Maine) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,396,225 to it, the largest being United Way Inc ($427,224). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Association for New Americans have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,396,225 in grants to Maine Association for New Americans, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Association for New Americans?
- United Way Inc is the largest funder on record, with $427,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Association for New Americans 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 21 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