Maine · Nonprofit
SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP
SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation ($1,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way Incshared funderslocal
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio match
- Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Incportfolio match
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.
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 97% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 96% · 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% · 2024 97% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $750.
From the IRS filings of SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP’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
SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 67% — 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
100% of SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way Incshared funderslocalME · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enterprise Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Anne's Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Comissionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appalachian Community Capital Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Regional Strategies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Reinvestment Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP?
- SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation ($1,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,500 in grants to SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP?
- Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCARBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEV CORP 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.
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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing