Maine · Nonprofit
PREBLE STREET
PREBLE STREET (Maine) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,606,588 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,988,112). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 191
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Preble Street does
Mission
To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food programs - the largest direct service emergency food program in northern new england, Preble Street food programs prepare and distribute almost one million meals a year to meet the nutritional needs of homeless and low-income individuals and families through the following: food security hub - preparing three meals a day for guests at area homeless shelters and other community members experiencing food insecurity. Soup kitchens - serving three meals a day, 365 days a year at the teen center and florence house. Food pantry - distributing emergency food boxes to individuals and families across southern maine. Mobile food - preparing healthy ready-to-eat meals for distribution by street outreach collaborative caseworkers and community partners to unhoused people in portland.
$4,655,529 spent$1,479,606 earned by the program16% of program spendingVeterans housing services - operating from offices in portland, lewiston, and bangor, vhs provides rapid re-housing and homelessness prevention services throughout maine for veterans' households that are either experiencing homelessness or are at-risk of homelessness. Using a collaborative and holistic approach, the program supports the housing goals of veterans in urban and rural communities with many entry points and a coordinated continuum of support and housing options. Program services include outreach, case management, emergency food, connection to resources for legal assistance, increasing income, connection to mainstream and va benefits, rental assistance, transportation, etc. To approximately 400 veterans' households.
$5,772,402 spent20% of program spendingFlorence house - in partnership with avesta housing, from a safe and supported shelter to permanent housing, florence house serves 65 homeless women 24/365. Florence house provides basic needs from beds to nutritious meals to hygiene education, as well as comprehensive support and referrals for case management, access to community resources for healthcare, mental health, and substance use disorder, employment, and legal assistance, and permanent supportive housing through three components, including: permanent apartments: 25 "housing first" efficiency apartments with support services for individuals ready to manage independently with staff who can assist them with developing skills to maintain stable independent housing, re-integrate into the community, and reconnect with families. Safe haven: 15 semi-private emergency shelter units with support services for the most vulnerable women while they develop the trust, self-assurance, and skills to become more independent. Emergency shelter: 25 beds providing safety, basic services, housing assistance, and referrals to support women who are temporarily homeless because of economic or situational crisis.
$2,356,500 spent8% of program spendingElena's way - a low-barrier, 24-hour emergency shelter for up to 40 clients, with staff and services on site, targeting individuals who have been previously unsheltered or cannot access other area shelters. Logan place - northern new england's first "housing first" permanent supportive housing program; logan place provides efficiency apartments and 24/365 support for 30 formerly homeless tenants who are developing skills to maintain independent housing. It offers community space for group and recreational activities and on-site laundry. Housing support staff assist tenants with developing and enhancing life skills and building community, and making referrals for case management, healthcare, mental health and substance use disorder treatment, employment, and legal assistance. Huston commons - in partnership with avesta housing, provides 24/365 permanent supportive "housing first" efficiency apartments for 30 formerly chronically homeless adults with multiple disabilities and challenges who are developing skills to maintain independent housing. It offers community space and laundry and includes a medical care room to accommodate practitioners and telemedicine, as well as on-site…
$15,964,800 spent56% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,749,231.
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 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $23M (+84%).
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 45% · 2018 46% · 2019 47% · 2020 32% · 2021 61% · 2022 54% · 2023 61% · 2024 65% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of PREBLE STREET’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 39 funders to 93 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $3.6M.
34 of 191 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 PREBLE STREET’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 191 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
PREBLE STREET has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
65% 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 PREBLE STREET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 40% · 2019 31% · 2020 21% · 2021 17% · 2022 12% · 2023 32% — broadly stable.
“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
54% of PREBLE STREET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
56% of PREBLE STREET's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
PREBLE STREET runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PREBLE STREET receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $62.5M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$37.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$17.8M
- Department of Justice$3.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.7M
- Department of Agriculture$374k
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 PREBLE STREET
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- 55 Portland Street LLC · disregarded
- 75 Darling Street LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PREBLE STREET?
- PREBLE STREET (Maine) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,606,588 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,988,112). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PREBLE STREET have?
- IRS filings report 191 organizations giving $30,606,588 in grants to PREBLE STREET, 126 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PREBLE STREET?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,988,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PREBLE STREET 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 191 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