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SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP

SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,500 to it, the largest being HENRY P KENDALL FOUNDATION ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$278k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$258k
Net assets
$1.9M
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Skowhegan Economic Development Corp does

Mission

To foster, encourage and assist in the location, settlement or resettlement of industry and recreational, agricultural,and other business enterprises in the Town of Skowhegan and in the County of Somerset.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To foster, encourage and assist in business interests in the town of skowhegan and county of somerset by providing affordable rental space to new and growing businesses in the area.

    $78,765 spent$207,500 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $78,765.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($22k) Expenses 100 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 131 ($29k) Expenses 78 ($8k) Net assets 101 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 180 ($40k) Expenses 450 ($45k) Net assets 101 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 75 ($17k) Expenses 718 ($71k) Net assets 98 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 252 ($56k) Expenses 171 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue -210 ($-46435) Expenses 67 ($7k) Net assets 104 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 75 ($17k) Expenses 1034 ($102k) Net assets 99 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 277 ($61k) Expenses 281 ($28k) Net assets 101 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 1259 ($278k) Expenses 921 ($91k) Net assets 112 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (1259)Expenses (921)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.7M to $1.9M (+11%).

$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
$21k
’18
−$5k
’19
−$54k
’20
$39k
’21
−$53k
’22
−$86k
’23
$33k
’24
$187k
’25
65
months of
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.

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Listed101010991091012
Joined·+0+0+0+4+1+0+2+2
No longer listed·00140110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $40k.

From the IRS filings of SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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

SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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

78%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.

“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

SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 3 states in all.

ME
MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
Maine out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin67% · top quartile
Months of reserve64.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP?
SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,500 to it, the largest being HENRY P KENDALL FOUNDATION ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $257,500 in grants to SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP.
Who is the largest funder of SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP?
HENRY P KENDALL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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.

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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 4 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