Maine · Nonprofit
THE ROOT CELLAR
THE ROOT CELLAR (Maine) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,894,222 to it, the largest being John T Gorman Foundation ($415,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What The Root Cellar does
Mission
To engage neighbors and volunteers to cultivate social, economic and spiritual wholeness as part of god's kingdom.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Root Cellar provides a chemical free family oriented community center for inner city children and their families. Activities included recreational and educational activities, medical services, dental clinics and food and clothing distributions.
$794,785 spent$43,982 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $794,785.
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.
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 $1.6M to $3.3M (+102%).
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.
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.
Chief executive
Joel Furrow
Executive director
Board chair
Chuck Ellis
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $45k → $201k.
5 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 ROOT CELLAR’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 ROOT CELLAR has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
40% 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 ROOT CELLAR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 68% · 2019 38% · 2020 24% · 2021 34% · 2022 43% · 2023 30% — 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
48% of THE ROOT CELLAR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
64% of THE ROOT CELLAR's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $294k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like THE ROOT CELLAR
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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
- 77-79 Birch Street LLC · disregarded
- 212-214 Blake Street LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ROOT CELLAR: 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 ROOT CELLAR?
- THE ROOT CELLAR (Maine) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,894,222 to it, the largest being John T Gorman Foundation ($415,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ROOT CELLAR have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,894,222 in grants to THE ROOT CELLAR, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ROOT CELLAR?
- John T Gorman Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $415,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ROOT CELLAR 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 32 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