Maine · Nonprofit
Resources for Organizing and Social Change
Resources for Organizing and Social Change (Maine) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,852,579 to it, the largest being MAINE INITIATIVESINC ($743,449). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $243k
What Resources for Organizing and Social Change does
Mission
ROSC's mission is to build and support a movement for nonviolent social change that will educate, activate, & empower people in 'Maine' through grassroots community organizing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Solidarity Network Against Hunger and Poverty (SNAHP) works to build a community of support for poor and working-class people to promote mutual aid, equity, and radical systems change through community organizing, leadership development, education, and peer support. The core organizing group for SNAHP met twenty-six times in 2023, and through their organizing efforts and work on mutual aid helped meet the needs of over 400 individuals.
$54,799 spentof which $11,775 as grants$17,000 earned by the program39% of program spendingThe Youth Activism Gathering: Every year ROSC helps to organize and financially support a weekend-long YAG that offers workshops focused on activist and community-building skills as well as provides time and space for art builds, music, talent shows, and other beautiful and creative bonding opportunities. The YAG is a youth-organized, youth-centered gathering dedicated to providing a safe environment in which participants are given the space to explore issues and topics important to them, and to share tools that will help them be active organizers within their communities.
$20,879 spent15% of program spendingThe Changing Main Directory (CMD) is Maine's grassroots resource for nonprofits and change makers. Each listing in the CMD includes detailed descriptions and the most up-to-date contact information for over 2,500 non-profit, grassroots, progressive, social change and social service organizations working throughout Maine, some of which can be found in no other place.
$14,462 spent10% of program spendingThe daylong workshop called Confronting Classism in "The Work" explored how classism can show up personally and in social change work and offered interactive discussions, presentations, and activities focused on how to create best practices for combatting it and creating safer cross-class, mixed-power spaces.Advocacy Advisory Council for the Good Shepherd Food Bank: Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine developed the Advocacy Advisory Council in 2022 to support building advocacy agendas to address the root causes of hunger, created in collaboration by an equal partnership of people with lived experience of poverty and hunger, Food Bank staff, and members of the Board of Directors, and community organizations. which was focused on steering the policy priorities of GSFB.Maine Food Advocacy Alliance: MFPAA is a cross-sector collaboration working to center those most impacted by inequities and advance economic, food, and environmental policies which support and promote a more equitable, just, resilient, and thriving food system. MFPAA is a cross-sector collaboration working to center those most impacted by inequities and advance economic, food, and environmental policies which support and…
$50,889 spentof which $210 as grants$12,144 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $141,029.
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 $131k to $363k (+177%).
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. 1 of the last 4 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
Sass Borodkin
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $129k → $366k.
11 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 Resources for Organizing and Social Change’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
Resources for Organizing and Social Change has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
71% 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 Resources for Organizing and Social Change.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 67% · 2019 29% · 2020 42% · 2021 33% · 2022 27% · 2023 41% — 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
32% of Resources for Organizing and Social Change's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
64% of Resources for Organizing and Social Change'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Resources for Organizing and Social Change
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Resources for Organizing and Social Change: 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 Resources for Organizing and Social Change?
- Resources for Organizing and Social Change (Maine) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,852,579 to it, the largest being MAINE INITIATIVESINC ($743,449). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Resources for Organizing and Social Change have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,852,579 in grants to Resources for Organizing and Social Change, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Resources for Organizing and Social Change?
- MAINE INITIATIVESINC is the largest funder on record, with $743,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Resources for Organizing and Social Change 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 39 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