Maine Grain Alliance

Analysis

Maine Grain Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in Skowhegan, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Maine Grain Alliance reported income of $178k and spending of $192k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $332k to $178k (-47%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Maine Grain Alliance sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 44th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Michigan Interscholastic Press Association ($178k), Dsu-Soar ($178k) and Committee for the Future Inc ($178k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% and program service revenue 47% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $51k. At year end it held assets of $185k against liabilities of $3,196, net assets of $182k. It reported 1 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.