Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010278623
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Auburn, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2077839186
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Government and Public Administration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,372,158
- Expenses
- $5,267,123
- Assets
- $11,287,898
- Liabilities
- $2,928,058
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shiloh LaFreniere Town of Jay ME (President)
- Danielle Loring Town of Minot ME (Vice President)
- Amy Landry (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Phillip Crowell City of Auburn ME (Director)
- Leslie Boness Town of Hartford ME (Director)
- Shiloh LaFreniere Town of Jay ME (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To strengten local government while combining total resources to meet regional challenges beyond individual capacities and to serve as a mutual forum to identify, study, and to bring into focus regional interest.
What it reported doing in 2024
Economic Development Planning, small business counseling, revolving loan programs for small businesses
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.14; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.8% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.