Maine · Nonprofit
Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission
Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,715 to it, the largest being National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ($127,215). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 324 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 324 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Sam L Cohen Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organizationshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 80% · 2019 77% · 2020 79% · 2021 98% · 2022 95% · 2023 91% · 2024 93% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission’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
Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission 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 Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 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
Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Sam L Cohen Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchME · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organizationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of York Countylocalportfolio matchME · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Paysonshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Elmina B Sewall Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundationlocalportfolio matchME · funds 41 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Technology Institutelocalportfolio matchME · funds 88 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared funderslocalME · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 44 organizations near you
- Jcl Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helen and George Ladd Charitable 0720995 Charitable Corporation #0720995portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.5M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$14.0M
- Department of Commerce$2.9M
- Department of Defense$1.4M
- Department of Agriculture$124k
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 Planning and Development Commission
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Southern Maine Finance Agency · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission?
- Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,715 to it, the largest being National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ($127,215). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $129,715 in grants to Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission?
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $127,215 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing