Maine Hands & Voices

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273832622
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Otis, ME, USA
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Deaf/Hearing Impaired Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$75,907
Expenses
$78,750
Assets
$21,928
Liabilities
$11,553

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Amber Woodcock (President)

People named in this filing

  • Amber Woodcock (President)
  • Darlene Freeman (Treasurer)
  • Cathy Glover (Secretary)

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

We support families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Maine. We offer opportunities for families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing to connect with other families in similar situations so no one feels alone on this journey.

What it reported doing in 2025

Camp Discover-We offer a fun educational experience for families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing to experience all of the communication opportunities available to Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. Classes are offered in ASL Cued Language and Listening and Spoken English for all levels to learn about or practice their skills. There are many opportunities for families to meet Deaf and Hard of Hearing adults to learn about their experiences and ask questions about what their children may experience through their lives. We also offer many fun camp activities to engage Deaf and Hard of Hearing children in new experiences new vocabulary and confidence building activities to help with self-advocacy. This year we had 130 people attend including staff mentors and interpreters with 45kids and 29 adults attending classes. We also offered internship opportunities to local university students enrolled in Deaf education and audiology speech pathology studies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 93% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 187.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -23.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $64K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.