Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE
MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE (Maine) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $636,242 to it, the largest being Rural Futures Fund ($358,547). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $419k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $636k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Maine Youth Alliance does
Mission
To promote positive youth development through non-electronic games and community involvement. To provide an environment where young people are guided to become caring, competent, confident, conributing and connected adults, and are provided with opportunities to serve and experience that, through games, leads to increased knowledge and understanding of our world.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Our youth development program, I KNOW ME did in person programming by leading mini-field trips for two or three youth in the I KNOW ME program.
$165,454 spent57% of program spendingTHE GAME LOFT purpose is to advocate for and implement initiatives that encourage meaningful youth involvement in the community and improve the well-being of young people according to the eight keys of Positive Youth Development.
$123,012 spent43% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $288,466.
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 $27k to $127k (+362%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 11% · 2019 9% · 2020 17% · 2022 66% · 2023 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $104k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 YOUTH ALLIANCE’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 YOUTH ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 96% · 2019 99% · 2020 81% · 2021 64% · 2022 66% · 2023 48% — 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
71% of MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE'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
82% of MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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.
Against its field
MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,457 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 YOUTH ALLIANCE: 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 YOUTH ALLIANCE?
- MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE (Maine) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $636,242 to it, the largest being Rural Futures Fund ($358,547). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $636,242 in grants to MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE?
- Rural Futures Fund is the largest funder on record, with $358,547 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE YOUTH ALLIANCE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 12 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