Maine · Nonprofit
WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING
WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING (Maine) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,170,293 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($351,650). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $391k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $681k
What Women for Healthy Rural Living does
Mission
We advance and promote the health and well-being of the woman, her family, and her community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Incredible Edible Milbridge (IEM) is our community's response to the ongoing food security challenges, inflation, and supply chain mishaps. Public gardens produced vegetables for 30,000 meals, building a stronger, healthier, and more food-independent community. Sharing organic vegetables with everyone ensures our neighbors have access to nutritious food. We hosted 5 Incredible Edible workshops with 52 attendees. Our bi-lingual seed library at the Milbridge Public Library gave community members the information and resources to start their own vegetable gardens at home. Summit for a Cause: Katahdin, a guided hike up Katahdin raised $12,719 for Incredible Edible Milbridge. Through Harvest Table Cooking classes, we teach how to cook what we harvest while developing culinary skills.
$125,677 spent42% of program spendingGroup programming encompasses a variety of initiatives designed to Connect For the Health of It, a 2024 initiative to help combat the epidemic of loneliness and isolation. Programs included our Book Discussion Series Banned Books, art programmingsix sessions with participants overall, Connecting Through Handcrafts and Art with a weekly Community Craft Circle, a monthly Mending Caf, monthly Soul Collage meetings, What Do You See art camp for children ages 8-11, and special workshops such as Mending with Patches, Sock Darning, Stab Binding Journal Making, and Creating a Felt Ornament. WHRLigig, a playgroup for children and their caregivers, commenced in February and met weekly, often at Milbridge Commons Wellness Park in good weathera partnership with Sunrise Opportunities Prevention Council. In late 2024, we hosted the local Acoustic Caf, bringing community members together to enjoy and create music. In 2024, Movement Programming included twice weekly Bone Builders osteoporosis intervention classes, Chair Yoga, Evening Yoga, Tai Chi, Zumba, and the introduction of a Walking Group. Day-long Women's Retreats, Connections: Nature, Inspiration, and Creativity, were introduced in 2024…
$75,249 spent$9,732 earned by the program25% of program spendingOutdoor Women Lead strengthens women's and girls confidence in the outdoors and life through monthly Outing Club with educational hikes or canoe outings, OWLettea summer camp for girls ages 11 to 14, and family skill-building workshops, including Wilderness First Aid, an Orienteering Workshop, and a mother-daughter mapping program. We partnered with the Maine Island Trail Association for an outing club hike and the OWLette camp.
$57,597 spent$1,809 earned by the program19% of program spendingMilbridge Commons Wellness Park, a partnership with Maine Coast Heritage Trust, offers thousands of visitors each year opportunities for physical activity through the walking track and children's playground, nutritious food from our largest Incredible Edible Garden, connections to nature and one another. A shade canopy and Adirondack chairs were added in 2024 along with a Children's Discovery Center. Events at Milbridge Commons included the second annual Butterfly Festival, a self-guided spring event for children, and a summer scavenger hunt. WHRL maintains a children's Little Free Library at the Commons and introduced a Chronolog-Citizen Science monitory tool to track environmental changes.
$39,598 spent13% of program spendingThrough the Elaine Hill Memorial Nursing Scholarship, we invest in a healthy future by supporting local students pursuing a nursing career. We awarded two $2,500 scholarshipsone to a new scholar and one to a returning scholar as the scholarships are renewable for up to three years.
$2,794 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $300,915.
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 2020 to 2021, from $441k to $658k (+49%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $21k → $214k.
5 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
42% 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 WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 49% · 2019 40% · 2020 30% · 2021 20% · 2022 50% · 2023 37% — 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
57% of WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
61% of WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $426k 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.
Against its field
WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING?
- WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING (Maine) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,170,293 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($351,650). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,170,293 in grants to WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $351,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING 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 34 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