Maine · Nonprofit
Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine
Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine (Maine) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,123,666 to it, the largest being MAINE COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT ($5,605,532). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $876k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $365k
What Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine does
Mission
To support survivors of sexual violence, their families and friends, and to help eradicate sexual violence in York and Cumberland Counties. The services offered include crisis and support lines, support groups, school, and community-based prevention education, child advocacy, and sexual assault response services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Under the pillars of Intervention, Prevention, and Engagement, SARSSM programs and services were provided to clients in York and Cumberland Counties. SART: Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) provides support, advocacy, information and resources for those impacted by sexual violence, including survivors and their loved ones and the providers who serve them across Cumberland and York Counties. In FYE 2025, staff and volunteer Advocates working the 24-Hour Helpline provided crisis intervention, validating emotional support, and responsive resource referrals and information to survivors and victims. Helpline Advocates provided in-person support on accompaniments with victims to hospitals and medical centers to receive medical care and/or forensic evidence collection. Helpline Advocates provided police department accompaniments when victims chose legal recourse. As part of our Emerge programs, under the pillar of Engagement, Peer Support Groups: provide peer support, connection and learning opportunities for people who have been impacted by sexual violence. Support groups are facilitated by licensed therapists, SARSSM staff, and/or specialized practitioners in trauma. SARSSM offers…
$501,812 spent$601 earned by the program61% of program spendingSARSSM Prevention & Education programs promote harm reduction, abuse prevention, and culture change, through outreach, training, and awareness programs and services. These are delivered to K-12 and post-secondary schools, civic groups, local businesses and community partners/stakeholders.
$223,080 spent27% of program spendingThe Children's Advocacy Center of York County provides a safe, neutral space for coordinated forensic interviews of children and vulnerable adults following an allegation of sexual and/or physical abuse. Services include non-leading, legally sound forensic interviews; advocacy and support for the victim and their families; a neutral space to freely communicate and collaborate on investigations before, during, and after interviews; and seamless referrals to various health and medical organizations.
$99,256 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $824,148.
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 2022 to 2023, from $626k to $856k (+37%).
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 80% · 2018 86% · 2019 86% · 2020 91% · 2021 85% · 2022 77% · 2023 92% · 2024 96% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Erin K Flood
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $214k → $915k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine’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
Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 90% · 2019 91% · 2020 93% · 2021 93% · 2022 86% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
99% of Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine
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
83% 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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine: 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 Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine?
- Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine (Maine) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,123,666 to it, the largest being MAINE COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT ($5,605,532). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $6,123,666 in grants to Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine?
- MAINE COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT is the largest funder on record, with $5,605,532 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine 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 15 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