Maine · Nonprofit
The Opportunity Alliance
The Opportunity Alliance (Maine) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,424,571 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST ($7,806,690). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $12M
What The Opportunity Alliance does
Mission
To build better lives and stronger communities across Maine, The Opportunity Alliance supports people with the programs and resources they need to improve their health, safety, and stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In FY25 TOA closed the following programs due to a variety of reasons including retirement of several staff and alignment with TOA's core work: - CDA Development Center: Training for the Child Development Associate credential. - The Women's Project, which worked directly with parents experiencing, or in recovery from, substance use, to provide both immediate support and long-term solutions. - Work Life Advisor, which supported and empowered individuals to help them find successful employment and economic stability. TOA no longer administers General Assistance: A program of the Department of Health and Human Services, administered by TOA in some cities and towns, which helps income-eligible individuals and families to meet their basic needs.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Childcare & Early Childhood Education- A collection of programs working in partnership with families and the community to ensure children are ready for school.- Early Childhood Education: TOA believes that the pathway to school success begins even before a child is born. Staff work with families to support the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development of their children at all ages, in classrooms and at home, to prepare them for their later transition into kindergarten. All TOA Early Childhood Education programs meet the comprehensive Head Start Performance Standards to ensure the highest quality of services for children and families across Cumberland County. Programs include: - Early Head Start: A free family visiting program for qualifying families. "Parent Partners" make weekly home visits to pregnant mothers and children aged 0-3 and their families. - Head Start: A program that provides all children with a safe nurturing environment while supporting parents as they identify and meet their own goals and nurture the development of their children. Head Start sites are located throughout Cumberland County and are free to qualifying families. - Public Pre-K…
$6,824,362 spentof which $695,612 as grants$3,013,898 earned by the program20% of program spendingBehavioral Health & Wellness- A continuum of community and residential mental health and substance use disorder services for children and adults.Community Mental HealthBehavioral Health Home (BHH): Delivers integrated care to people who struggle with mental health. BHH care coordinators, in collaboration with the program nurse care manager, help clients consider their needs around housing, health care, finances, work, education, social and recreation time, and other areas that are important to them. Together, clients and care coordinators use this information to develop a treatment plan made up of individual goals and preferences.Broadway Crossings Adult Crisis Stabilization Unit: With a capacity of eight adult beds, this short-term crisis stabilization unit provides an alternative to hospitalization that allows people to remain connected to their support networks in the community.Children's Behavioral Health Home: An integrated approach working to meet the physical and mental health needs of children and young adults with developmental, behavioral, or mental health concerns.Mobile Crisis Response Services-Mobile Outreach: Available 24- hours a day, 365 days a year, individuals…
$20,290,814 spent$9,183,437 earned by the program58% of program spendingPoverty & Economic Supports- A collection of programs and services designed to increase income, and basic needs by ensuring access to food, safe and stable shelter, utilities, as well as volunteer opportunities.Cumberland County Homeless Prevention Program: Assists families and individuals who live in Cumberland County (excluding Portland, Brunswick and Frye Island) in finding, securing, and/or maintaining housing.Energy Crisis Intervention Program (ECIP): For urgent situations, this program provides emergency fuel assistance to HEAP eligible households in Cumberland County. A household may be eligible for up to $400 in emergency funds (or 100 gallons) to avert an energy crisis. Those in danger of a utility disconnect that directly affects their ability to heat the home, who do not have the financial resources to pay utility providers, may also receive ECIP benefits.Keep ME Warm: Fuel assistance distributed to Mainers by 211.Wrap Funds: Discretionary grant funds available to meet urgent needs of adults with severe and persistent mental illness.Foster Grandparent Program: Provides an opportunity for volunteers aged 55 and older to stay active by providing 10-40 hours a week of…
$7,743,270 spent$3,234,622 earned by the program22% of program spendingCommunity Well-Being- A collection of programs working with youth, families, neighbors, and partner organizations to build strong networks and healthy neighborhoods.Lakes Region Collective Action Network (LRCAN): An open meeting for community service providers in the Lakes Region to come together to network, share resources, and collaborate on addressing community challenges.Maine Youth Action Network (MYAN): MYAN is a statewide network of committed adults and passionate young people who believe in the transformative power of youth leadership. MYAN encourages prevention-focused, youth-centric social change through programming and technical assistance for young people and adults.Community Building: A place-based initiative that helps transform target neighborhoods into communities where people know each other and take care of each other. TOA Community Builders are on the ground in the target communities (South Portland, and Bridgton/ Lakes Region) to support residents in creating long-term, systemic change. Community School Development Project at South Portland Middle School: Community Schools are public schools that provide services and support, created and run by people who know…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,858,446.
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 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $19M (+45%).
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 45% · 2018 50% · 2019 52% · 2020 50% · 2021 66% · 2022 81% · 2023 72% · 2024 56% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of The Opportunity Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Joseph R Everett
President & CEO
Board chair
Josh Steirman
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.4M.
11 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Opportunity Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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 Opportunity Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 Opportunity Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 61% · 2019 50% · 2020 63% · 2021 68% · 2022 77% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of The Opportunity Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
89% of The Opportunity Alliance's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 Opportunity Alliance's funding base is broadening — from 20 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding The Opportunity Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$43.3M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$6.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$853k
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 Opportunity Alliance
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- 50 Monument Square LLC · disregarded
- Ingraham Housing Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Opportunity Alliance: 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 The Opportunity Alliance?
- The Opportunity Alliance (Maine) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,424,571 to it, the largest being MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST ($7,806,690). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Opportunity Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $12,424,571 in grants to The Opportunity Alliance, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Opportunity Alliance?
- MAINE CHILDREN'S TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $7,806,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Opportunity Alliance 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 73 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