Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Hands & Voices
Maine Hands & Voices (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,182 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Maine Hands & Voices does
Mission
We support families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Maine. We offer opportunities for families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing to connect with other families in similar situations so no one feels alone on this journey.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Camp Discover-We offer a fun educational experience for families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing to experience all of the communication opportunities available to Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. Classes are offered in ASL Cued Language and Listening and Spoken English for all levels to learn about or practice their skills. There are many opportunities for families to meet Deaf and Hard of Hearing adults to learn about their experiences and ask questions about what their children may experience through their lives. We also offer many fun camp activities to engage Deaf and Hard of Hearing children in new experiences new vocabulary and confidence building activities to help with self-advocacy. This year we had 130 people attend including staff mentors and interpreters with 45kids and 29 adults attending classes. We also offered internship opportunities to local university students enrolled in Deaf education and audiology speech pathology studies.
$22,540 spentof which $11,300 as grants35% of program spendingAnnual conference: This conference is free to families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. The theme was Language Acquisition from birth to age 21 with a teen Deaf and Hard of Hearing panel and a parent panel. We had 69 people registered.
$11,788 spentof which $2,250 as grants18% of program spendingGBYS Program: Our chapter has a Guide By Your Side Program that supports families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing on an individual level with Parent Guides matched up with a particular family. We also offer Deaf and Hard of Hearing Guides to share their experiences with the families. The GBYS program offers events throughout the year for families to attend as well as personal visits in their homes when requested. 14 families have an individual guide come to their home and 50 families have been supported at our events.
$29,816 spentof which $60,000 as grants46% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,144.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $28k to $22k (−21%).
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.
7% of Maine Hands & Voices’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $56.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Hands & Voices’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 Hands & Voices leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 Hands & Voices.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
59% of Maine Hands & Voices's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Hands & Voices's revenue fell 17% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Maine Hands & Voices: 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 Hands & Voices?
- Maine Hands & Voices (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,182 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Maine Hands & Voices have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $17,182 in grants to Maine Hands & Voices, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Hands & Voices?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Hands & Voices 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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