Maine · Nonprofit
MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION
MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,304,820 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST INCORPORATED ($947,909). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,253 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Kennebec Valleyshared fundersportfolio match
- First Federal Savings and Loan Assn of Bath Charitable Foundationlocal
- The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Incportfolio match
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.
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% 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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $50k → $223k.
2 of 10 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). 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 73% 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; 70% 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. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Kennebec Valleyshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- First Federal Savings and Loan Assn of Bath Charitable FoundationlocalME · funds 11 organizations near you
- The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Association of Community Action Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maternity and Early Childhood Fdn Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Discovery of Virginia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterville Area Women's Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our Children Oregonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alfred M Senter Fund TrustlocalME · funds 16 organizations near you
- Merrymeeting Bay TrustlocalME · funds 5 organizations near you
- Sam L Cohen Foundationshared fundersME · backs 113 organizations that share your funders
- Mid Coast HospitallocalME · funds 5 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
89% 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 MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION?
- MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,304,820 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST INCORPORATED ($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 10 organizations giving $1,304,820 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 INCORPORATED 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing