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MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS

MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being GET FAMILIES BACK TO WORK ($65,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$65k
Net assets
$1k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Maine People Before Politics does

Mission

Our mission is to promote and advance policies that benefit the people of maine by creating an environment conducive to job growth to conduct research and educate the public about issues related to economic growth and to provide a voice for the people of maine free of special interests.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Maine People Before Politics engaged in shedding light on proposed legislation and regulation that would have a negative effect on maine businesses and economic development.

    $4,000 spent
    34% of program spending
  2. Ensuring that people are aware of any proposed changes in economic policy along with any potential economic changes resulting from new legislation. Mpbp presents these potential changes with in-depth analysis as to the effect that they would have on maine businesses and the overall economic climate of the state.

    $4,000 spent
    34% of program spending
  3. Presenting research and analysis to the maine legislature on the potential effects on maine businesses and the states economic development resulting from its proposed actions and or inactions.

    $3,900 spent
    33% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,900.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($201k) Expenses 100 ($205k) Net assets 100 ($72k)2021 Revenue 49 ($98k) Expenses 78 ($159k) Net assets 15 ($11k)2022 Revenue 57 ($115k) Expenses 28 ($57k) Net assets 96 ($69k)2023 Revenue 40 ($81k) Expenses 49 ($101k) Net assets 68 ($49k)2024 Revenue 13 ($26k) Expenses 28 ($58k) Net assets 23 ($17k)2025 Revenue 1 ($2k) Expenses 8 ($16k) Net assets 2 ($1k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (1)Expenses (8)Net assets (2)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $72k to $11k (−85%).

$72k
$11k
$69k
$49k
$17k
$1k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,274 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’20
−$61k
’21
$59k
’22
−$20k
’23
−$32k
’24
−$13k
’25
4.2
months of
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.

20202025
Listed75
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS’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.

Where its funders are

MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 1 state in all.

DC

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS's revenue fell 99% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin−582% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−59% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,647 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS: 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 PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS?
MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being GET FAMILIES BACK TO WORK ($65,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $65,000 in grants to MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS.
Who is the largest funder of MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS?
GET FAMILIES BACK TO WORK is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAINE PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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