Maine · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES
THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES (Maine) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,400 to it, the largest being WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ($57,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $406k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $193k
- Net assets
- $-16353
What The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies does
Mission
To empower and educate youth and young adults to thrive as entrepreneurs and community leaders. Through business education, skills development, mentorship, business start-ups, internships, and social enterprises, we will lead the next generation in growing workforce and economic development in maine.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The ces changemaker program serves youth and young adults ages 10-24, guiding rural maine participants toward career and entrepreneurial opportunities. The program offers hands-on, on-the-job learning and business education. Participants engage in professional development and work-based learning experiences, either as interns gaining valuable work and business skills or as budding entrepreneurs.
$173,997 spentof which $327 as grants$146,963 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $173,997.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $43k to $93k (+117%).
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: 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Bonita Tompkins
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $81k → $27k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES’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
THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 38% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$250k
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 THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES?
- THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES (Maine) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,400 to it, the largest being WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ($57,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $193,400 in grants to THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES?
- WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB is the largest funder on record, with $57,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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