Maine · Nonprofit
SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER
SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $708,609 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($193,903). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $709k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center does
Mission
Seeds of hope provides a safe community place to encourage positive interactions for individuals and families to receive food (breakfast and lunch) 5 days a week to battle food insecurity as well as provide hope for a better tomorrow for those with very limited resources including the marginalized communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Seeds of hope serves upwards of 100 less fortunate individuals breakfast and lunch daily, 5 days a week, 52 weeks per year. Through the work of the executive director, staff and volunteers, over 13,000 people are served annually.
$249,977 spent87% of program spendingWarming center to provide an overnight location for homeless individuals to warm themselves. Open 52 weeks per year, the center serves upwards of 60 unique individuals during the winter months.
$38,923 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $288,900.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $153k to $884k (+476%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 8% · 2022 27% · 2023 35% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $52k → $108k.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER’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
SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
52% 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 SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 82% · 2019 65% · 2020 36% · 2021 28% · 2022 25% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
82% of SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $322k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER?
- SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $708,609 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($193,903). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $708,609 in grants to SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $193,903 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 27 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