Safe Abortions For Everyone

Overview

Mission

To support safe abortions for those in need.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, SAFE Maine provided financial support to 454 individuals seek-ing abortion, supported 92 individuals with additional cost like transporta-tion or aftercare supplies, and distributed 1500 Reproductive Wellnesskits with supplies and information related to reproductive health.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
010449907
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
Headquarters
Portland, ME, USA
Phone
2072328970
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 50
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 48.9%; rating input score 49
  • Fundraising efficiency: $61.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.42; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 25.5%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 48.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $183K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Abbie Strout-Bentes (Executive Dir.): $95,423 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2025.