Maine · Nonprofit
TEDFORD HOUSING
TEDFORD HOUSING (Maine) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,803,580 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($592,865). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Tedford Housing does
Mission
Tedford Housing's mission is to empower people to move from homelessness to home. Established in 1987, tedford's conprehensive approach to reducing homelessness and mitigating its impact on our communities includes providing homelessness prevention services and outreach case management for those at risk of homelessness; emergency shelter for adults and families; and permanent supportive housing for households that have previously experienced homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tedford Housing is the only emergency shelter provider north of portland and south of rockland, offering shelter, on an emergency first-come/first served basis, 365 days a year/24 hours a day, to adjults and families experiencing homelessness. In brunswick, tedford maintains a 16-bed single adult shelter at 49 cumberland stree, which is staffed overnight, and a separate family shelter at 34 federal street that offers 6 apartment-style units for families with children. Tedford Housing's emergency shelters provide a safe place for people to rebuild their hope. Shelter guests facing the crisis of homelessness work one-on-one with case managers to access to the health, human, and community services needed to overcome and address the challenges that created their housing emergency, and achieve stable, permanent housing. Case managers follow shelter guests long after they move into housing to ensure that they are able to maintain their housing and avoid a return to homelessness.during fiscal year 2024, tedford provided 13,383 shelter bednights to 80 households. Of these 80 households, 64 were individuals staying at the adult shelter, and 16 were households staying at the family shelter.…
$578,773 spent$439,109 earned by the program42% of program spendingTedford Housing's homeless prevention program is an essential strategy for reducing homelessness by preventing it from occurring. A costly car repair, divorce or medical bill can push a relatively stable household to the brink of homelessness. Tedford Housings homeless prevention case manager works to provide case management to families experiencing a housing crisis. Tedford partners with community agencies and utilizes funding from the united way of midcoast maine to provide security deposits and rental assistance to prevent evictions and/or secure alternative housing to individuals and families either in danger of eviction or homelessness or to those who are currently homeless. In fiscal year 2024, the program served 193 households, comprised of 301 individuals, with case management and outreach services, including those receiving rental and security deposit assistance. Our homeless prevention program also includes a separate emergency heating assistance program, warm thy neighbor, which Tedford Housing assumed in 2010. Warm thy neighbor is an emergency heating assistance program for those in brunswick and adjacent towns who are at or under 150% of the poverty level and without…
$152,386 spent11% of program spendingIn 2003, Tedford Housing made a strategic decision to change its focus from providing only emergency housing shelter to providing homeless prevention services and supportive housing services in the midcoast region. Tedford's permanent supportive housing units are occupied by individuals and families who have previously experienced homelessness, and provides a vital platform for people to move forward in other areas of their lives like employment, education and improved health. Using a housing first approach, Tedford Housings 37 supportive housing units provide safe, clean and affordable apartments with on-site case management. Many are occupied by adults and families who have experienced disabling conditions like mental illness and/or substance abuse and/or catastrophic events like domestic violence that have resulted in homelessness. Many have had multiple shelter stays and/or periods of unsheltered homelessness.Tedford Housing has six supportive housing apartment buildings; one in brunswick, two in bath, one in lewiston, one in auburn and one in augusta, with 19 units for single adults and 18 for families. Many individuals and families thrive in this supportive setting,…
$635,632 spent47% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,366,791.
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 $9.7M to $12M (+29%).
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 44% · 2018 35% · 2019 34% · 2020 22% · 2021 38% · 2022 37% · 2023 34% · 2024 31% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of TEDFORD HOUSING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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
Andrew Lardie
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $74k → $840k.
12 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 TEDFORD HOUSING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
TEDFORD HOUSING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
64% 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 TEDFORD HOUSING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 35% · 2019 26% · 2020 16% · 2021 34% · 2022 17% · 2023 30% — 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.
How long its funders stay
81% of TEDFORD HOUSING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
59% of TEDFORD HOUSING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
TEDFORD HOUSING runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TEDFORD HOUSING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.6M
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 TEDFORD HOUSING
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEDFORD HOUSING: 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 TEDFORD HOUSING?
- TEDFORD HOUSING (Maine) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,803,580 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($592,865). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TEDFORD HOUSING have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $2,803,580 in grants to TEDFORD HOUSING, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEDFORD HOUSING?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $592,865 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEDFORD HOUSING 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.
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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 51 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