Maine · Nonprofit
SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL
SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL (Maine) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,957,484 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($2,324,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Sunrise County Economic Council does
Mission
The scec initiates and facilitates the creation of jobs and prosperity in washington county, maine by working with a consortium of community-minded businesses, not-for-profit organizations, municipalities and citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family futures downeast & startup downeast - promoting post-secondary education for parents and early childhood education for their children as a means to reduce poverty, create employment opportunities and improve stability in washington county, maine families. Empowering individuals through college careers to employment and small business ownership.
$1,108,617 spentof which $206,595 as grants21% of program spendingSustainable prosperity initiative - this project is a team focusing on the prosperity of the communities and environmental issues in the washington county downeast region in relation to several program areas. The sipayik clam garden, revitalizing native foodways; the ropeless gear library pilot, testing ropeless lobster gear working to prevent sea life rope entanglement; the upper machias bay resilience project, working on machias bay environmental issues; along with the downeast fisheries partnership, a collaboration of fisheries related non-profit work as well as fisheries educational programming, are all part of this community work.
$695,659 spentof which $148,442 as grants13% of program spendingScec administers various other programs and intiatives like the whole family to jobs program, community broadband technical assistance and the procurement technical assistance center (ptac) program.
$3,420,426 spent$418,367 earned by the program65% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,224,702.
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 $4.7M to $7.7M (+63%).
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 76% · 2018 78% · 2019 53% · 2020 35% · 2021 48% · 2022 48% · 2023 61% · 2024 60% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% 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.
Board chair
Brian Frutchey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $150k → $984k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 34% · 2019 32% · 2020 37% · 2021 31% · 2022 23% · 2023 43% — 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
38% of SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
65% of SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record — $3.0M federal, $3k state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$1.5M
- Small Business Administration$541k
- Department of Agriculture$445k
- Federal Communications Commission$200k
- Department of the Interior$147k
- Department of Commerce$145k
- Membership Dues$3k
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 SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
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 SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL: 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 SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL?
- SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL (Maine) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,957,484 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($2,324,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $7,957,484 in grants to SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL?
- Elmina B Sewall Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,324,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL 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 32 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