Maine · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN
THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN (Maine) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,362,046 to it, the largest being United Way Inc ($909,960). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What The Center for Grieving Children does
Mission
To provide a safe space, loving peer support, outreach and education to grieving children, teens, families, and the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bereavement peer support: weekly volunteer led, age-based peer support groups provide a safe and supportive environment in which children, young adults and adults who have suffered the death of someone close can share their experiences and feelings with others with similar experiences. Trained volunteer facilitators support children, teens and parents/caregivers at locations in portland and sanford and online.
$914,776 spent72% of program spendingTender living care: weekly volunteer led, age-based peer support groups provide a safe and supportive environment in which children, teens, young adults, parents and caregivers cope with the changes that come with a family member's diagnosis of a serious illness. Trained volunteer facilitators support families from the point of diagnosis on with illness peer support groups, phone support, and information.
$177,873 spent14% of program spendingOutreach and education: staff and trained volunteers take their knowledge and expertise out to local schools and the community to provide professional training, crisis support, and consultation on supporting grieving children and adults. Online resources, including webinars and recorded trainings, are also available. Intercultural and collective grief support: in collaboration with local schools, nonprofit and other community agencies and institutions, this program serves elementary, middle, and high-school aged children whose loss results from a relocation to maine, leaving behind family, friends, community, and culture. Students participate in peer support groups that include collaborative group projects with an emphasis on creative arts and self-expression.
$177,873 spent$7,881 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,270,522.
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 $2.3M to $2.0M (−12%).
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: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $171k → $422k.
13 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 GRIEVING CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 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
THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
58% 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 GRIEVING CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 41% · 2019 40% · 2020 30% · 2021 20% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
79% of THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $814k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 45 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $264k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$264k
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 GRIEVING CHILDREN
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN?
- THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN (Maine) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,362,046 to it, the largest being United Way Inc ($909,960). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $3,362,046 in grants to THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN?
- United Way Inc is the largest funder on record, with $909,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN 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.
Play a game about who funds Center for Grieving Children →
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 114 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