Maine · Nonprofit
The Childrens Center
The Childrens Center (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,486 to it, the largest being Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation ($167,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Childrens Center has grown faster than half of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Kennebec Valleyshared funderslocal
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio match
- First Children's Financeportfolio match
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.
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 12% · 2022 17% · 2023 5% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of The Childrens Center’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $101k → $6k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Childrens Center’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 Childrens Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 63% · 2022 80% · 2023 88% — 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
100% of The Childrens Center's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 263 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Kennebec Valleyshared funderslocalME · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 49 organizations near you
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Coordinated Child Care Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orchard Placeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Institute of Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Child Care Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Business Development Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholar Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like The Childrens Center
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 Childrens Center: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Childrens Center?
- The Childrens Center (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,486 to it, the largest being Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation ($167,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Childrens Center have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $193,486 in grants to The Childrens Center, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Childrens Center?
- Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $167,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Childrens Center 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing