Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Council on Aging
Maine Council on Aging (Maine) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,461,695 to it, the largest being Maine Health Access Foundation Inc ($1,337,039). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $86k
What Maine Council on Aging does
Mission
A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to poverty, housing, transportation, food, social connection and care across all settings.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
A primary focus of the work this year was to address food insecurity and social isolation of older people across ME, NH, VT, NY, and MA. This was accomplished by standing up a learning network across the region, focused on programs that work to address these issues. Another part of the work was to offer micro-grants to organizations for sustainable activities that would strengthen food access and social inclusion of older people.
$1,030,850 spent52% of program spendingMCOA is advancing informed and innovative solutions to the barriers that stand in the way of us all living healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age at home and in community settings. This work spans many sectors and issues, including housing, transportation, workforce, both ensuring an adequate direct care workforce and ensuring older workers are included as a part of the solution to Maine's workforce shortage, care across all settings, and support for family care partners.
$585,876 spent30% of program spendingOur Reframing Aging initiative was reborn as our Power in Aging Initiative in 2021. This project engages groups of people, specifically targeting HR directors, the media, healthcare, and employers, in conversations about ageism and the importance to our health, workforce, and economy, to building an age-positive culture and outlook in these areas.
$214,605 spent11% of program spendingMeHAF is a three-year project aimed at growing Maine's Essential Care and Support Workforce by increasing the number and kinds of people who are engaged in the conversation about this workforce and by issuing reports that underscore the economic value of this workforce to our economy, as well as the cost of doing nothing.
$151,350 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,982,681.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $460k to $1.6M (+255%).
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.
98% of Maine Council on Aging’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $45k → $537k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Council on Aging’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 Council on Aging leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 Council on Aging.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2019 64% · 2020 56% · 2021 48% · 2022 75% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of Maine Council on Aging's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
63% of Maine Council on Aging's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Council on Aging has grown faster than three-quarters of the 611 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Maine Council on Aging receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Sponsorships$18k
- Photography$2k
- Registration for Meetings&Conf$75
- Outstate Conf, Meetings, Etc.$45
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.
Organizations like Maine Council on Aging
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
99%
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 Maine Council on Aging: 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 Council on Aging?
- Maine Council on Aging (Maine) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,461,695 to it, the largest being Maine Health Access Foundation Inc ($1,337,039). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Council on Aging have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,461,695 in grants to Maine Council on Aging, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Council on Aging?
- Maine Health Access Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,337,039 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Council on Aging 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 29 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