Maine · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC (Maine) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,250 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($3,016,585). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Special Olympics Maine Inc does
Mission
Special olympics mission is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Special olympics maine conducts several state level competitions annually in 22 olympic-style sports. Among these are summer and winter games, which are 3-day, 2-night events hosting 1,500 and 500 athletes respectively - regional soccer and basketball events (6 total), equestrian, aquatics, bocce, motor activities, golf, and tennis competitions in various locations around the state. On an annual basis, our program serves over 5,000 different athletes. In addition, there are more than 70 competitive events offered at the local or area level. Our program also offers a statewide comprehensive "coaches education system" to train volunteer coaches and event volunteers, who in turn, train our athletes in the many sports we offer.
$1,249,079 spentof which $69,549 as grants$58,500 earned by the program97% of program spendingSpecial olympics owns and operates a 5-acre facility called "camp tall pines" - used primarily as a facility for children and adults with intellectual disabilities to enjoy a traditional camp experience. Camp tall pines has a "formal" summer camp season - june, july, and august, and remains open and available the rest of the year, to any group, school setting, family, workplace, etc. Who serves citizens of maine with intellectual disabilities. The up-keep, improvements, staffing, and maintenance of this facility are also the responsibility of our program.
$35,261 spent$25,060 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,284,340.
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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $14M (+34%).
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.
75% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% 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
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
Mike Feldman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $310k → $816k.
11 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 99% · 2019 95% · 2020 86% · 2021 86% · 2022 56% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“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
68% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $827k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC (Maine) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,250 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($3,016,585). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,177,250 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,016,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 41 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