Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE WOMENS FUND
MAINE WOMENS FUND (Maine) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,574 to it, the largest being Womens Funding Network ($175,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $462k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $521k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Maine Womens Fund does
Mission
The maine women's fund makes bold investments that transform the lives of maine women and girls by incubating and investing in nonprofit organizations, partnering with grantees, and connecting people and organizations making social change.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
The maine women's fund was founded in 1988 on the principle that when women and girls thrive, the whole community prospers. The fund transforms the lives of maine women and girls through strategic grant making, community engagement and support to nonprofit organizations dedicated to social change. It is the only foundation in maine focused exclusively on increasing womens and girls economic security. With financial security, women can access better housing, education, health care and employment for themselves and their families while also contributing their talents and leadership for the betterment of their communities.the fund provies critical funding and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations in maine within six strategic areas: education; financial skills and literacy; healthcare; leadership; personal safety; and public policy. Since its inception, the fund has invested more than $2.7 million in 235 organizations advancing the status of maine women and girls. In addition to grant making, the fund annually engages hundreds of women across maine through its active board and committees, volunteer opportunites, and special events.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.7M to $3.0M (+11%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $23k → $13k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 WOMENS 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 WOMENS FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 WOMENS FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 40% · 2019 39% · 2020 33% · 2021 71% · 2022 18% · 2023 77% — 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
31% of MAINE WOMENS FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 WOMENS FUND draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k 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.
Organizations like MAINE WOMENS 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 WOMENS FUND: 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 WOMENS FUND?
- MAINE WOMENS FUND (Maine) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,574 to it, the largest being Womens Funding Network ($175,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE WOMENS FUND have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $520,574 in grants to MAINE WOMENS FUND, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE WOMENS FUND?
- Womens Funding Network is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE WOMENS 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 22 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