Maine · Nonprofit
Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop
Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,000 to it, the largest being Good Shepherd Food Bank ($120,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $165k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $122k
- Net assets
- $168k
What Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop does
Mission
To provide food for thos experiencing food insecuity within the greater Solon area in Central Maine See Sch O
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 20204, the food cupboard operated two days per month, distributing food to approximately 40 people each time. The operation was conducted out of the home of one board member. With grant funds received from the Good Shepherd Food Bank, the SCFC was bale to purchase a building in December of 2024.
$7,414 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,414.
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
Timothy Curtis
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop’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
Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop.
“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 Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop's grant income comes from Maine funders.
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.
Against its field
Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop: 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 Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop?
- Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,000 to it, the largest being Good Shepherd Food Bank ($120,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $122,000 in grants to Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop.
- Who is the largest funder of Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop?
- Good Shepherd Food Bank is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Solon Community Food Cupboard & Thrift Shop 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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