Maine · Nonprofit
MIDCOAST LITERACY
MIDCOAST LITERACY (Maine) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,914 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($65,630). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $201k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $274k
- Net assets
- $136k
What Midcoast Literacy does
Mission
Provide one-on-one literacy tutoring services, early literacy sessions with families, and small group English language training for ages 6 to adults in midcoast Maine.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Midcoast Literacy Adult Literacy Programs: trained and matched volunteer tutors with adult learners (both native English speakers and English language learners) wishing to improve literacy skills. 108 volunteer tutors provided free, confidential, learner-centered tutoring in reading, writing, math, computer literacy, English language learning, and other literacy-based skills to 130 adults. Workplace Literacy small group classes for English language learners employed at local businesses instructed an additional 42 adults in job-specific vocabulary and English language skills. Conversation Cafe events provided opportunities for 32 English language learners to practice with volunteer conversation partners.
$84,654 spent$101,933 earned by the program42% of program spendingMidcoast Literacy Family Literacy Programs: improved families' ability to support children's learning and academic experience through reading aloud and other inter-generational activities. 431 children participated through both one-on-one Read Together tutoring (70 learners, both English language learners and struggling readers from English-speaking families), and Read With Me and Summer Books reading programs for children and families. 62 volunteer tutors provided free, confidential, learner-centered tutoring to help children improve their reading. 2,545 free children's books were given to participating students and families.
$114,813 spent$137,803 earned by the program58% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $199,467.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $115k to $148k (+29%).
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.
99% of MIDCOAST LITERACY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Daniel Burson
Executive Director
Board chair
Janine Boyce
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $29k → $42k.
4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 MIDCOAST LITERACY’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
MIDCOAST LITERACY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
37% 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 MIDCOAST LITERACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 38% · 2019 42% · 2020 70% · 2021 38% · 2022 30% · 2023 24% — 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
36% of MIDCOAST LITERACY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
MIDCOAST LITERACY draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k 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
MIDCOAST LITERACY is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MIDCOAST LITERACY
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDCOAST LITERACY: 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 MIDCOAST LITERACY?
- MIDCOAST LITERACY (Maine) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,914 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($65,630). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDCOAST LITERACY have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $273,914 in grants to MIDCOAST LITERACY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDCOAST LITERACY?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $65,630 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDCOAST LITERACY 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 29 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