Maine · Nonprofit
Project Launch
Project Launch (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,400 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($56,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $171k
What Project Launch does
Mission
Provide advice, career counseling and other support to local students and families to help students make a successful transition from high school to post-secondary degree completion and other learning opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Coordinated an apprenticeship program for high school students with Deer Isle-Stonington High School (DSHS). Students are placed with local employers in fields such as health care, childcare, construction, veterinary, computer programming, fisheries, and the arts.
$7,834 spent13% of program spendingCoordinated a mentorship program matching DSHS students with alumni who share their college and career experiences. Supported students with their transition from high school to college, career or other opportunities.
$19,585 spent31% of program spendingProvided skill-building activities and resources for DSHS students in preparation for college, employment or life exploration. Assisted students with resume writing, interview practice, financial literacy and financial aid at career fairs, workshops, social events and college of worksite visits.
$35,252 spent56% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,671.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $122k to $191k (+57%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kimberly Hutchinson
Executive Director
Board chair
Lynn Kneedler
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $13k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 Project Launch’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
Project Launch leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 Project Launch.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of Project Launch's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k 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.
Organizations like Project Launch
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.
Public support
100%
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 Project Launch: 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 Project Launch?
- Project Launch (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,400 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($56,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Project Launch have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $71,400 in grants to Project Launch, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Project Launch?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $56,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project Launch 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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