Empty Arms of Greater Bangor

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822334662
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Bangor, ME, USA
Phone
2075737871
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Counseling, Support Groups

Reported finances

Revenue
$79,583
Expenses
$16,879
Assets
$108,971
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Erin Hatch (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jaime Pangburn (Board Member)
  • Jenna Biehn (Treasurer)
  • Deb Dilworth (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of Empty Arms of Greater Bangor is to serve those whose lives are touched by the tragic death of a baby through pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or in the first few months of life. The organization is charitable and educational.

What it reported doing in 2025

Empty Arms of Greater Bangor runs the following services for free for the community: Run monthly support groups with both in-person and virtual options; Maintain our memorial garden in Mount Hope Cemetery; Host an annual remembrance walk at Mount Hope Cemetery; Hold and annual planting event and butterfly release; Host family and parent events throughout the year; Provide peer companionship at the hospital bedside along with baby hand and foot castings; Organize and provide comfort boxes and miscarriage boxes at the time of a loss; Give heartbeat teddy bears, provided during ultrasound, to help comfort those who have had a loss or who have an impending loss; Provide comfort and informational books through a giving library; Provide continuing education for local medical staff; Provide inservice trainings for local universities and organizations who serve our community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 68% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 31
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 86
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 12.8%; rating input score 13
  • Program expense ratio: 60.4%; rating input score 60

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 78.8%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.46; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -35.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 57% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 80.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 12.8% of revenue deployed · 60.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.