Maine · Nonprofit
SACO MEALS PROGRAM
SACO MEALS PROGRAM (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $134k
What Saco Meals Program does
Mission
Operated a meals program (soup kitchen) providing evening meals two days a week to individuals who lack the resources to fully meet their own needs.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Operated a meals program (soup kitchen) providing even meals two days per week to individuals who lack the resources to fully meet their own needs.0
$43,577 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,577.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2025 to 2026, from $100k to $134k (+33%).
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.
98% of SACO MEALS PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Carmen Gawronski
Board Chair Person
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 SACO MEALS PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
SACO MEALS PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 SACO MEALS PROGRAM.
“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
100% of SACO MEALS PROGRAM's grant income comes from Maine funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SACO MEALS PROGRAM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 58 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 58 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like SACO MEALS PROGRAM
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SACO MEALS PROGRAM: 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 SACO MEALS PROGRAM?
- SACO MEALS PROGRAM (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SACO MEALS PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $32,500 in grants to SACO MEALS PROGRAM.
- Who is the largest funder of SACO MEALS PROGRAM?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACO MEALS PROGRAM 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 5 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