Maine · Nonprofit
Portland Community Squash
Portland Community Squash (Maine) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,680,231 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,314,183). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Portland Community Squash does
Mission
Portland Community Squash (PCS) aims to build an accessible community center that holistically supports and unites its members. We envision a community with enough social and human capital to overcome everchanging societal challenges and prosper. Student Demographics: 50% Male, 48% Female, 60% qualify for childcare subsidy, 57% first-generation degree-seeking youth, 45% multilingual. Adult Demographics: 58% Male, 40% Female, 35% People of Color, 30% qualify for childcare subsidy, 34 year old median age. During 2022, the organization provided 500 hours of squash instruction; 200 hours of homework help, enrichment and summer STEM; 100 hours of yoga, fitness, cooking, and critical conversations; 700 hours of van rides; 475 event visits; 1,075 fitness visits; 7,054 squash visits.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rally Portland - Seasonal afterschool program for youth in 6th - 12th grade - 94 participants - 84% attendance - 60% financial aid.
$242,755 spent$13,292 earned by the program31% of program spendingCamp Fish Hawk: Weekly summer camps bringing together squash and adventures around Casco Bay for youth in 3rd - 8th grade - 39 participants, 64% financial aid.
$72,826 spent$4,200 earned by the program9% of program spendingFarm Team: Seasonal afterschool program for youth in 3rd - 5th grade. 37 participants, 88% attendance, and 54% financial aid.
$24,276 spent$3,250 earned by the program3% of program spendingMembership: 49 success stories in the advisor program - 1,501 clinic visits, 44% financial aid. 788 event visits, 43% financial aid. 3,855 fitness visits, 18% financial aid. 14,942 squash visits, 18% financial aid. 649 volunteer visits, 65% financial aid. 1,736 cafe visits, 50% financial aid.
$436,960 spent$359,007 earned by the program56% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $776,817.
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 $7.7M to $11M (+37%).
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: 2020 15% · 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Portland Community Squash’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Barrett Takesian
Executive Director, Presid
Board chair
Hawley Strait
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $537k → $1.0M.
11 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Portland Community Squash’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
Portland Community Squash has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 Portland Community Squash.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 29% · 2021 45% · 2022 22% · 2023 25% — 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
43% of Portland Community Squash'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
Portland Community Squash draws 66% 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. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Portland Community Squash runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Portland Community Squash
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Portland Community Squash?
- Portland Community Squash (Maine) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,680,231 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,314,183). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Portland Community Squash have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $5,680,231 in grants to Portland Community Squash, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Portland Community Squash?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,314,183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Portland Community Squash 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 67 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