Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823097991
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
Location
Portland, ME, USA
Phone
2075173404
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,629,881
Expenses
$3,198,007
Assets
$968,515
Liabilities
$487,410

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHARLES CARNEGIE (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MUFALO CHITAM (EXECUTIVE DI): $110,027 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To improve the legal, social and economic conditions experienced by Maine's immigrants enhancing their lives while strengthening Maine through advocacy, information sharing and collaboration both through and among our member organizations. What began as a vibrant but small coalition is now an independent, immigrant-led non-profit organization.

What it reported doing in 2024

Advocacy, information sharing & collaboration: commemorating our 25th anniversary, the coalition has successfully cultivated Maine as a welcoming environment where immigrants can flourish, serving as the collective voice for immigrant populations statewide. We comprise 100 members and partners from across the state, collaboratively working to advance this mission. Our overall mission: informing, advocating, and collaborating. Mirc continues to recognize the diverse needs within our community and solutions that address the unique challenges faced by Maine's immigrant communities of all backgrounds. Mirc has expanded its immigrant rights advocacy to include essential social services (housing, shelter, food, transportation, etc.), delivered directly and through member organizations. This support primarily benefits the state and key Maine towns such as portland, south portland, freeport, yarmouth, lewiston/auburn, brunswick, and sanford. Mirc successfully advocated for the creation of the office of new americans (ona) within the governor's office of policy innovation and the future (gopif). Mirc hosted a town hall, "centering and restoring the community: elections 2024," to encourage informed voting, discuss policies impacting Maine's immigrant communities, and highlight broader civil rights implications of immigration policies on september 16, 2024, at portland public.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 61% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $26.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -21.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 35.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.