Maine PHCC
Legal name: Maine Association of Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 016017036
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Cumberland, ME, United States
- Phone
- 207-829-5055
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $277,209
- Expenses
- $228,872
- Assets
- $338,856
- Liabilities
- $4,156
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALICE AMES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MIKE LEVENSELLER (PRESIDENT)
- JORDAN HARMER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ALICE AMES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $90,177 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Maine Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association is dedicated to the advancement and education of the plumbing and HVACR industry for the health, safety and comfort of society and the protection of the environment. Welcome and thank you for taking the time to visit and learn more about Maine PHCC, or Maine Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors. Here you will find valuable information, learning resources, and a community of professionals dedicated to revolutionizing the plumbing and HVAC industry. PHCC advocates on members’ behalf, working directly with lawmakers to protect the plumbing and HVAC industry from unfair laws and overregulation. Let us serve as your gateway to keeping current with the PHCC community. Our Mission The Maine Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association is dedicated to the advancement and education of the plumbing and HVACR industry for the...
What it reported doing in 2025
To educate & provide awareness to members of knowledge in the fields of plumbing, heating and cooling systems.fuel and plumbing code seminars - educated 900 techniciansplumbing apprenticeship contesttradeshow to educate about new products and services for the plumbing and hvac industry.provide information such as charts and graphs, inspectors, licensing board information to plumbing and hvac contractors and their technicians.sponsor for the plumbing apprenticeship e-learning program. 50 apprentices currently enrolled.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 17.4%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $229K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.