Maine · Nonprofit
MCCE ACTION
MCCE ACTION (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,948 to it, the largest being PROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE ($93,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $40k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $252k
- Net assets
- $3k
What McCe Action does
Mission
Advocacy
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2022-2023 MCCE Action supported efforts through a ballot initiative to ban foreign corporate contributions to candidates and to require more transparency for campaign contributions to candidates for municipal offices in Maine's larger cities. MCCE Action also worked to implement a Clean Elections (public funding) program for municipal candidates in the City of Portland. Since 2021 MCCE Action has been working to amend the municipal charter in the City of Portland to provide public campaign financing to candidates for municipal offices. Form 990-EZ, Part IV- Additional InformationThe Executive Director Salary was paid via a common paymaster, a related organization (Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, MCCE, a 501c3 organization). MCCE Action reimbursed 100% of MCCE Action's portion of ED salaries, taxes,and fringe benefits to Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, unless any portion was forgiven (which it wasn't this year). In 2022-2023, MCCE Action ED Salary was 1% of total ED Salary. Given that the salaries were initially paid out of MCCE, no W2 was paid out of MCCE Action.
$48,271 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,271.
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 2018 to 2019, from $35k to $3k (−91%).
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.
100% of MCCE ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Anna Kellar
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $23k.
From the IRS filings of MCCE ACTION’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
MCCE ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MCCE ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
MCCE ACTION draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MCCE ACTION's revenue fell 67% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,066 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like MCCE ACTION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MCCE ACTION: 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 MCCE ACTION?
- MCCE ACTION (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,948 to it, the largest being PROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE ($93,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MCCE ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $251,948 in grants to MCCE ACTION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MCCE ACTION?
- PROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE is the largest funder on record, with $93,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MCCE ACTION 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 5 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