Maine · Nonprofit
WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,108 to it, the largest being Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation ($18,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $-656
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $486k
What Waterville Area Habitat for Humanity does
Mission
Wahfh's mission is to enhance our community by helping qualified families to become independent owners of decent, affordable homes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
New home construction and weatherization program - the habitat for humanity new home construction program builds and sells affordable homes to enhance the community by helping qualified families become independent home owners. The habitat for humanity weatherization program provides up to 600 of materials installed by supervised wahfh volunteer labor to help weatherization of a qualified house. We will do before and after energy audits to measure the air leaks of your house. Our weatherization goal is to reduce air leaks and energy use by 25% or more. The potential heating savings can be used by the homeowner for other budget items while enjoying a home that is more comfortable to live in.
$15,143 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,143.
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 2022 to 2023, from $375k to $542k (+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.
100% of WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (52% 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
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 held at 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’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
WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 68% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,694 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,694 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
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.
Public support
50%
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 WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: 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 WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY?
- WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,108 to it, the largest being Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation ($18,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $38,108 in grants to WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY?
- Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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