Christine B Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472350705
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Bangor, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2075739026
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $285,968
- Expenses
- $372,195
- Assets
- $377,260
- Liabilities
- $130,506
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMANDA COST (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHELLE ALLEN (DIRECTOR)
- CONNOR DARLING (DIRECTOR)
- WENDY SCHORS (DIRECTOR)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The christine b. Foundation (cbf) supports those facing cancer by extending access to healthy food, nutritional information, and community connections essential to their strength and comfort.
What it reported doing in 2025
Cbf's cancer nutrition services and related nourishing hope trial activities represent the organization's largest programmatic expense in fy25. This program provides various personalized services, including hospital based produce, home-delievered medically tailored grocery packages, and oncology dietitian counseling. This is available at no cost to individuals in active cancer treatment, recovery, and members of their households, ensuring equitable access to nutrient-rich food regardless of cancer type, age, income level, geographic location, or race. During the program year, cbf had 4,502 encounters with 670 patients, across 8 Maine counties, reaching 1,588 individuals overall. Expenses were used to source, assemble, and distribute 2,745 grocery packages (equivalent to 82,350 meals), 1,350 produce packages, and 20 dietitian counseling sessions. More than 100 volunteers supported safe, reliable, and compassionate assembly, hospital-based distribution, and home delivery services across 11,500 square miles. This expense also supported the ongoing development and implementation of cbf's multi-year nourishing hope trial, which evaluates how access to healthy food and dietetic counseling impacts health outcomes and the social, economic, and physical well-being of families facing cancer. Fy25 activities included research administration, consulting services, protocol development, and collaboration with researchers at the yale univeristy school of public health in preparation for trial enrollment. The study is designed to recruit 100 cancer patients who will participate in one of three intervention groups involving medically tailored grocery delivery, dietitian counseling, or usual care with delayed grocery support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $301K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.