Maine · Nonprofit
Rural Community Action Ministry
Rural Community Action Ministry (Maine) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,548 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC ($272,456). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $379k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $786k
- Net assets
- $433k
What Rural Community Action Ministry does
Mission
Our purpose is to work with people to meet their needs for safe and adequate shelter, clothing, food and basic well-being in a manner that maintains or improves their self worth and dignity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeless Prevention and Shelter Services - Our Shelter Services Coordinator assists those people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. They determine needs and work to determine what kinds of assistance RCAM can provide. Example of services are eviction prevention, prevent electric service disconnection, partial rent payment or security deposit, heating fuelwinter months only, food pantry contact and where to find clothing and furniture. RCAM operates a two-unit duplex shelter for homeless families. The families may stay in the shelter for a limited time. The Transitional Unit is available to one family for up to two years. This family most often is one that has stayed for a bit of time at our homeless shelter and needs additional time to seek employment and all that is needed to sustain independence.
Program Service Expenses 0, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Volunteers are a critical component of all RCAM services. From the immediate community to across the country, professionals and volunteers work to support and assist all RCAM services and people. Volunteers may work one-on-one with clients in their homes, or volunteers may come to us as a group from a business or church and spend the day or a week with us. The list of volunteer jobs is endless. Program Service Expenses 274,561, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Hunger Prevention services are made up of a gardening program and a hunger awareness/elimination activity. Our Gardening Service works to encourage and assist the elderly, disabled, and persons experiencing financial hardship to eliminate hunger and improve nutrition by helping them to grow and preserve their own food. This service offers seeds, seedlings, tilling, information, site visits, and consultation to support and encourage successful food production. Gardening services can also match new gardeners with experienced volunteer gardeners for additional support and assistance. RCAM is active in 4 Hunger Coalitions that address local food insecurity.…
$274,561 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $274,561.
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 $662k to $764k (+15%).
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 28% · 2018 6% · 2019 49% · 2020 63% · 2021 34% · 2022 41% · 2023 40% · 2024 45% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Rural Community Action Ministry’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Janice E Daku
Executive Director
Board chair
Travis J Mills
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $73k → $93k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Rural Community Action Ministry’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
Rural Community Action Ministry leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 Rural Community Action Ministry.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 50% · 2019 52% · 2020 26% · 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 2023 39% — 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
63% of Rural Community Action Ministry's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 91% 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
90% of Rural Community Action Ministry's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k 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
Rural Community Action Ministry runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Rural Community Action Ministry
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rural Community Action Ministry: 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 Rural Community Action Ministry?
- Rural Community Action Ministry (Maine) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,548 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC ($272,456). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rural Community Action Ministry have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $785,548 in grants to Rural Community Action Ministry, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rural Community Action Ministry?
- UNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $272,456 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rural Community Action Ministry 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 11 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