Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND
MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND (Maine) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,544,998 to it, the largest being FAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM ($448,280). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $555k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $708k
What Maine Women's Lobby Education Fund does
Mission
The mwl education fund works to build gender justice in maine by ensuring our community has the knowledge, skills, and confidence to engage in gender-equitable public policy advocacy and civic life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach and education: through community education, public bill tracking, action alerts and action hours, and opportunities for activism, we develop programs to help mainers understand the legislative process, understand specific pieces of legislation, and give them tools and access to engage as citizen advocates on the issues that matter to them.
$410,772 spentof which $6,500 as grants91% of program spendingCivic leadership: we offer mainers training and skill-building, as well as the confidence to engage as change makers in civic life. Our key program is the annual girls day at the state house, which has been held every year since 1996. In 2025, nearly 100 eighth grade girls and gender expansive youth representing every county in maine participated both online and in person programming at the state house. Our youth programs support those who are invested in gender-equitable civic engagement and social change on a local, statewide, and national level. We are committed to continuing to work with youth to make the policy process more transparent, connect them with each other as valuable resources, and equip our participants with the knowledge, skill, and confidence to take on change in their corners of maine.
$7,059 spent2% of program spendingCoalition leadership: strengthening our infrastructure through collaboration is part of our mission, and as such we are also building shared resources within maine's gender equity ecosystem, including developing a shared multi-organization meeting space in augusta and a shared operations staffing model. We are active leaders and contributors to coalitions which improve the health, safety, and dignity of women, girls, and gender expansive mainers, from the maine paid leave coalition and maine era for all coalition to the state reproductive rights coalition.
$31,300 spentof which $31,300 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $449,131.
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 2020 to 2021, from $463k to $655k (+41%).
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.
86% of MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND’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. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Megan Gardner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $113k → $257k.
6 of 27 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 WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND’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 WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 47% · 2019 67% · 2020 45% · 2021 31% · 2022 38% · 2023 29% — 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
33% of MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $393k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND?
- MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND (Maine) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,544,998 to it, the largest being FAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM ($448,280). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,544,998 in grants to MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND?
- FAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM is the largest funder on record, with $448,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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