Maine Democratic Socialists of America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822119047
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Portland, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2074002096
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,187
- Expenses
- $45,839
- Assets
- $27,850
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Peach Cushing (Agenda Co-chair)
- Bri M (Communications Co-chair)
- Sophie Garner (Communications Co-chair)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering Maine's working class.
What it reported doing in 2024
Maine DSA for a Livable Portland campaigned to protect renter and worker rights and well-being in Portland Maine by reducing the number of short term rentals, increasing rights for tenants and eliminating the subminimum wage. Also supported local candidates in elections. Today approximately 11,000 out of 18,000 units are protected by the rules updated in 2022.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.5%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 54.8%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.5% of revenue deployed · 54.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.