Maine · Nonprofit
MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION
MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION (Maine) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,521 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST ($947,909). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Midcoast Maine Community Action does
Mission
To empower individuals and famalies to gain knowledge and skills to achieve self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community services - the community services department provides the following complement of programs and services: the home energy assistance program (heap) is a program that provides a fixed amount of funding to maine each year from the federal government. Mmca administers the heap program in sagadahoc and lincoln counties, offering support to qualified homeowners and renters. Assistance may include help paying for heating fuel, as well as emergency fuel deliveries to ensure households stay warm and safe throughout the winter. In fy 2025, mmca served 1,278 clients in heap. The economic stability program connects individuals and families with a wide range of community resources. This includes access to agency-managed funds that can help cover essential needs such as fuel and utility payments, security deposits, rent, transportation assistance, and other supports-depending on the town of residence. In fy 2025, mmca served 399 clients in economic stability. The women, infants & children (wic) nutrition program provides supplemental food vouchers, nutrition education, and breastfeeding support to pregnant and postpartum women, as well as infants and children up to five years old. The…
$1,359,784 spentof which $99,592 as grants23% of program spendingChild and family services - the child and family services department provides the following programs and services: mmca's head start and early head start programs provide free high-quality, early childhood education for income-qualified families. Early head start serves children 6 weeks to 3 years old. Head start serves preschoolers 3 to 5 years old. These free programs give parents/ caregivers the time they need to work or go to school while their child has a chance to learn, socialize, get nutritious meals and snacks, and play in a licensed center with caring, qualified teachers. Each center helps families find assistance in challenging times with dedicated family advocates. Home visiting is also provided to families not enrolled in center based care. In fy2025, mmca served 187 children and their families in head start/early head start. The whole families program includes a focus on the entire family with a flexible definition of "family." the model is strength-based and family- focused and encourages teamwork between family, agency, and community resources. It includes an assessment for measuring levels of risk and promotes problem-solving skills that identify and eliminate…
$4,413,456 spentof which $126,788 as grants76% of program spendingOther services - other services include smaller programs funded by municipal and other unrestricted funding, as well as other agency central service costs.
$51,558 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,824,798.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.4M to $6.1M (−28%).
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 87% · 2018 69% · 2019 69% · 2020 70% · 2021 82% · 2022 88% · 2023 95% · 2024 95% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Amy Winston
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $50k → $223k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $331k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Maine Community Action Association Dba Maine Community Action Partnership). These are real filings, and they are not money MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION raised.
From the IRS filings of MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY 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
MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 90% · 2019 63% · 2020 40% · 2021 82% · 2022 87% · 2023 72% — 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
67% of MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION'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
87% of MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$31.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY 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.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION?
- MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION (Maine) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,521 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST ($947,909). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,313,521 in grants to MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION?
- MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $947,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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