Maine · Nonprofit
Southern Maine Agency on Aging
Southern Maine Agency on Aging (Maine) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,361,596 to it, the largest being USAGING ($922,002). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Southern Maine Agency on Aging does
Mission
The Southern Maine Agency on Aging is the focal point in Cumberland and York counties for resources, services and information to empower older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers to live to their fullest potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During FY25, the Organization added the following new program services: Community Connections - a pilot program and a collaboration of the five Maine Agencies on Aging to support people residing in the community and help prevent or delay use of institutional services. The Organization introduced the Respite Care Companion Program with grant funding from the National Community Care Corps. Volunteers are matched with older adults who have difficulty living independently and their family caregivers. During consistent, weekly visits from the volunteer, care recipients enjoy social connection while caregivers receive respite to improve their mental, emotional, physical, and financial health, and their ability continue supporting their loved ones at home. The Alzheimer's Disease Programs Initiative (ADPI) grant has supported the implementation of several new dementia-focused services at SMAA. The ADPI-funded Compass Program is a new care coordination service providing education, tools, and resource navigation for the caregivers of individuals living with dementia. The grant also funds expanded dementia-competency training for our staff, volunteers, and community partners; these trainings include a 3-part series for Direct Support Professionals serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as well as Gatekeeper Training for our Meals on Wheels staff and volunteers. Additionally, the ADPI grant has supported the development of a new Adult Day Program at our…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Nutrition program for the elderly provides meals to 4,000 older adults at congregate sites and home delivered meals.
$2,639,708 spent$224,228 earned by the program39% of program spendingCommunity Services provides approximately 9,500 Information & Referral contacts to over 6,200 older and disabled adults.
$408,157 spentof which $718,022 as grants$34,671 earned by the program6% of program spendingWe extended our adult day program for older adults living with memory loss from one to two locations, Biddeford and Springvale. We continued to expand our service delivery offerings for many of our services, including Family Caregiver Support Groups and Training, Health and Wellness Classes, Health Insurance Counseling, Information and Assistance, Money Minders, and Nutrition Counseling.We reintroduced the Independent Housing with Services Program (IHSP). The IHSP provides comprehensive services that are delivered on site to help individuals live as independently as possible. Services include service coordination, care management, housekeeping, chore assistance services, and other services to help individuals maintain independence. Vaccine initiative is a collaboration of the five Maine Agencies on Aging to educate Mainers over 60 years old about the importance of staying up-to-date on immunizations, including COVID-19, Flu, RSV and Pneumonia vaccines. The Agencies on Aging offer clinics in communities across Maine to help Mainers get immunized. This initiative was completed in FY25.Community Connections is a pilot program and is a collaboration of the five Maine Agencies on Aging…
$3,669,673 spent$311,716 earned by the program55% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,717,538.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.2M to $9.4M (+30%).
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 70% · 2018 71% · 2019 61% · 2020 74% · 2021 81% · 2022 78% · 2023 77% · 2024 81% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Southern Maine Agency on Aging’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Megan Walton
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $203k → $998k.
10 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Southern Maine Agency on Aging’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 funders by total. 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
Southern Maine Agency on Aging has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
65% 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 Southern Maine Agency on Aging.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 25% · 2019 20% · 2020 21% · 2021 16% · 2022 25% · 2023 66% — 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
50% of Southern Maine Agency on Aging's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
Southern Maine Agency on Aging draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $554k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Southern Maine Agency on Aging's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Southern Maine Agency on Aging receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$1.2M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$420k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Southern Maine Agency on Aging
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southern Maine Agency on Aging: 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 Southern Maine Agency on Aging?
- Southern Maine Agency on Aging (Maine) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,361,596 to it, the largest being USAGING ($922,002). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southern Maine Agency on Aging have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $3,361,596 in grants to Southern Maine Agency on Aging, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southern Maine Agency on Aging?
- USAGING is the largest funder on record, with $922,002 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southern Maine Agency on Aging 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 72 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing