Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council
Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,516,637 to it, the largest being DAIRY PROMOTION INC ($1,516,637). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $17k
What Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council does
Mission
Well-being through leadership in nurtrition education and research of the nutritional value of dairy products. Encouraging food selection patterns based on scientific recommendations promoting and protecting the health benefits of dairy foods in Maine.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council provides guidance on the concept of a balanced diet, including dairy products in accordance with the latest scientific recommendations, utilitzing the unified marketing plan.
$215,345 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $215,345.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $113k to $66k (−42%).
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.
0% of Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Sarah Littlefield
Executive Director
Board chair
Jenifer Tilton-Flood
Chair, UDIA Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $176k → $166k.
From the IRS filings of Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Maine Dairy Promotion Board · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council: 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 Dairy and Nutrition Council?
- Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,516,637 to it, the largest being DAIRY PROMOTION INC ($1,516,637). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,516,637 in grants to Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council?
- DAIRY PROMOTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,516,637 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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