Maine · Nonprofit
Penobscot Community Health Center
Penobscot Community Health Center (Maine) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,143,742 to it, the largest being FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ($736,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $103M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Penobscot Community Health Center does
Mission
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission statement "to provide comprehensive, integrated primary health care services for all to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients and the Maine Communities we serve," regardless of the ability to pay and demonstrates its dedication to quality care through Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care as well as NCQA certification as a Primary Care Medical Home. As part of its Patient Centered Medical Home model, PCHC is proud to provide high quality family medical care to over 57,650 people in the greater Bangor Region, Waldo County and Jackman area. PCHC's four largest medical practices in Bangor, Brewer, and Old Town, Maine are open six days a week, Pediatrics open 5 days, and offer an integrated care model with medical care. Four of our practices provide pharmacy and one provides physical therapy under one roof. Also available are same day sick care, convenient early morning and evening hours, providers or nurses available by…
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
PCHC's Family Medicine Services provided 233,826 patient visits in 2023.
$47,182,482 spentof which $176,768 as grants$67,267,746 earned by the program61% of program spendingPCHC's Dental Services provided 19,590 patient visits in 2023.
$4,865,415 spent$4,288,226 earned by the program6% of program spendingAll other services as described in Line 1, including 21,337 other visits in 2023 (this includes pharmacy, podiatry, audiologist, chiro, PT, nutritionist and speech).
$25,032,429 spent$25,903,704 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $77,080,326.
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 2021 to 2022, from $46M to $68M (+46%).
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 12% · 2018 12% · 2019 10% · 2020 23% · 2021 23% · 2022 20% · 2023 9% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of Penobscot Community Health Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Lorelle LDwyer
CEO and President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $196k → $346k.
2 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Penobscot Community Health Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
Penobscot Community Health Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
74% 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 Penobscot Community Health Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 60% · 2019 54% · 2020 35% · 2021 35% · 2022 28% · 2023 30% — 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
40% of Penobscot Community Health Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
71% of Penobscot Community Health Center's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Penobscot Community Health Center's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding Penobscot Community Health Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84.1M on record — $84.1M federal, $60 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$83.7M
- Department of Agriculture$451k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$20k
- Visual Media Services$60
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 Penobscot Community Health Center
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
71% 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
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- PCHC Belfast QALICB Inc · exempt
- PCHC Charitable Foundation · exempt
- Community Care Partnership ME LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Penobscot Community Health Center: 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 Penobscot Community Health Center?
- Penobscot Community Health Center (Maine) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,143,742 to it, the largest being FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ($736,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Penobscot Community Health Center have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,143,742 in grants to Penobscot Community Health Center, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Penobscot Community Health Center?
- FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC is the largest funder on record, with $736,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Penobscot Community Health Center 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 33 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