Maine · Nonprofit
Unity Foundation
Unity Foundation (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,300 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($40,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $192k
What Unity Foundation does
Mission
Unity Foundation is a supporting organization for two public charities. In addition, Unity Foundation supports youth, education, environment, arts and community development activities, services and programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Unity Foundation supports youth, educational, environmental, arts and community development programs, activities and services of its supported organizations and other nonprofits. The Foundation enables nonprofits to fulfill their missions by providing grants, technical assistance, education and convenings.
$255,195 spentof which $90,000 as grants$77,061 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $255,195.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.6M to $1.1M (−31%).
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.
0% of Unity Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Lawrence J Sterrs
CEO/Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $14k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Unity Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Unity Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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
Unity Foundation's revenue fell 30% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Unity Foundation
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Unity Foundation: 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 Unity Foundation?
- Unity Foundation (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,300 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($40,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Unity Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,300 in grants to Unity Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Unity Foundation?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $40,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Unity Foundation 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 1 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