Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services

Analysis

Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Lewiston, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.7m, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2022, income grew from $840k to $1.5m (+84%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 532%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Learnup Centers ($1.5m), Nan Shan Local Development Corp ($1.5m) and Spectrum ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% and program service revenue 49% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $961k. At year end it held assets of $307k against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of -$775k. It reported 64 employees.