Northern Maine Medical Center
Overview
Mission
Northern Maine Medical Center (NMMC) is to provide, coordinate, and support access to high quality, affordable health care and to positively impact our communities’ quality of life by improving health status. and Beliefs The Mission of Northern Maine Medical Center is to provide, coordinate, and support access to high quality, affordable health care and to positively impact our communities’ quality of life by improving health status. As a charitable organization, NMMC provides general and acute health services to individuals and families in and around the St. John Valley. We coordinate and support access to high quality health care that impacts each person’s quality of life by improving health status through services and programs related to the provision of health promotion, maintenance and care.
What it reported doing in 2023
Medical care & ancillary services, nursing home & skilled services, physician services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010234189
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Website reviewed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-T 2023
- Headquarters
- Fort Kent, ME, United States
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and the website gives limited detail about important organizational relationships.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Public policy transparency: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Public financial transparency: 2 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 40
- Impact reporting controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: 2 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.49; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $61.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $986K · 20 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2009 to 2023
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.