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Sunrise Opportunities

Sunrise Opportunities (Maine) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,115,992 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST ($2,565,730). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$7.1M
Net assets
$2.2M
17/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Sunrise Opportunities does

Mission

To provide living and work environments in which people with disabilities can thrive, enjoy a high quality of life and reach their own personal goals. Sunrise Opportunities has created residential & work programs & mental health services to meet these needs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Residential treatment programs - for people with severe and persistant mental illness. 20 adults with severe and persistant mental illmness received round the clock, clinically supervised, personal support in a home-like and safe residential environment which included their own private bedroom and a daily treatment program tailored to their specific needs. The focus was on reducing their mental illness symptoms and also assisting them on their road to recovery. Services were delivered in Eastport Residential Facility (14 beds) and Milbridge Residence (6 beds) both facilities are dully licensed through the DHHS Assisted Living Program and the Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

    $3,332,840 spent$3,546,567 earned by the program
    33% of program spending
  2. Home support programs - support approximatly 20 adults with intellectual disabilities. Individuals receive clinically supervised support services delivered in their own homes (or in small agency supported homes) designed to help recipients improve and maintain their ability to live as independently as possible. Services included primarily habilitative training, personal assistance with activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living and development and personal well being. Services are offered thoughout all of Washington County, Maine.

    $1,792,150 spent$2,096,448 earned by the program
    18% of program spending
  3. Childrens services - services approximately 40 children with significant intellectual, emotional or behavioral disabilities. Providing home and community based treatment, rehabilitative and commmunity support or child day treatment programs. Services include counseling, therapy, teaching, socialization and applied behavioral analysis. All services were individually tailored to assist children to reach their full potential, to increase their inclusion in the community and to sustain them in their family living situation of their choice. Services are provided thoughout Washington County, Maine.

    $1,726,327 spent$1,784,038 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  4. Community Support Programs - Support approximately 50 people with intellectual disabilities with services designed to help them remain in their communities and prevent their institutionalization. Induvidually designed services were delivered by direct support professionals, tailored to increase each recipients ability to successfully engage in inclusive social community relationships and to maintain and develop skills that support health and well-being. The focus is on community inclusion, personal development and supporting areas of daily living skills as necessary. Services were delivered in the communities surrounding Calais, Machias and Cherryfield Maine.

    $1,184,750 spent$1,033,533 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  5. Community Caring Collaborative - A nurturing collaboration that expands resources and increases hope, health and wellbeing for vunerable community members in Washington County Maine. The collaboratives works include, convening with groups that specifically on the work of mitigating the effects of poverty, a bridging program for babies affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome, family futures down-east for building family academic success and self self sufficiency, early childhood consultation and outreach (ECCO) provides low cost effective support for children in various enviornments and who need addditonal supports or skills, & trainings for bridging programs provided trainings to approximately 700 individuals, non-training services were provided to over 1,000 individuals.

    $1,001,936 spent$89,599 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  6. Mental Health Services - Clients learn skills, increase their self-awareness and wellness, and are linked to services which enable them to live and work at their highest potential and meet their personal goals. Services provided include case management, daily living services and out patient counseling.

    $588,172 spent$569,894 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  7. Program Management - Supports Various Local Non-Profit entities through administrative support services.

    $309,238 spent$57,632 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  8. Dental Program - Providing free dental services to the underserved population of Washington County Maine through the use of the Tooth-Fairy mobile dental vehicle.

    $257,592 spent$229,577 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,193,005.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.8M) Expenses 100 ($6.8M) Net assets 100 ($549k)2018 Revenue 105 ($7.2M) Expenses 104 ($7.1M) Net assets 112 ($613k)2019 Revenue 117 ($8.0M) Expenses 115 ($7.9M) Net assets 141 ($772k)2020 Revenue 127 ($8.6M) Expenses 122 ($8.3M) Net assets 197 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 156 ($11M) Expenses 117 ($8.0M) Net assets 675 ($3.7M)2022 Revenue 141 ($9.6M) Expenses 139 ($9.5M) Net assets 706 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 139 ($9.5M) Expenses 144 ($9.8M) Net assets 643 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 153 ($10M) Expenses 152 ($10M) Net assets 650 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 160 ($11M) Expenses 164 ($11M) Net assets 405 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (164)Net assets (405)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.9M to $4.0M (+110%).

$2.3M
$2.0M
$1.9M
$4.0M
$5.2M
$5.1M
$5.0M
$5.2M
$3.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of Sunrise Opportunities’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’17
$64k
’18
$159k
’19
$311k
’20
$2.6M
’21
$170k
’22
−$343k
’23
$39k
’24
−$270k
’25
2.5
months of
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

Thomas Michaud

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+2+1+0+0+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·21100110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $156k → $836k.

5 of 24 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 Opportunities’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

Sunrise Opportunities has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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

56% 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 Sunrise Opportunities.

36%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 30% · 2019 40% · 2020 47% · 2021 24% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% — 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

47% of Sunrise Opportunities's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

66% of Sunrise Opportunities's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
NH
IL
MA
OH
NM
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Sunrise Opportunities is better cushioned than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding Sunrise Opportunities receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.

State$6k
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20
21
22
25
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $6k
  • FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $14

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 Opportunities

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Sunrise Opportunities?
Sunrise Opportunities (Maine) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,115,992 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST ($2,565,730). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sunrise Opportunities have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $7,115,992 in grants to Sunrise Opportunities, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sunrise Opportunities?
MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,565,730 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sunrise Opportunities 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 24 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