Maine Irish Heritage Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810546468
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Portland, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2077800118
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $659,038
- Expenses
- $395,444
- Assets
- $823,428
- Liabilities
- $23,225
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eric Brown (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Eric Brown (Executive Director): $93,750 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our nonprofit and charitable mission is to provide an accessible community resource, where connections to Maine's Irish history and culture can flourish through historic preservation, arts and culture.Initiatives supporting this mission include:1. Protecting, preserving, restoring, and interpreting the historic St. Dominic's Church, itself a monument to the early Irish community life in Maine and a structure of great historical and architectural significance to the City of Portland and State of Maine;2. Providing a center for Maine's diverse communities to share their cultural experiences through artistic and educational programs and community events;3. Housing within the building historic artifacts, the Maine Irish Genealogical Center, Archives, and Library, preserving the story of Irish history in Maine; and4. Promoting the general welfare by having said building open to the public and providing a public space where community groups and members of the public may gather.
What it reported doing in 2025
To protect, preserve, and restore the historic landmark that was formerly St. Dominic's Church, a hub of early Irish community in Maine; to provide a center for Maine's diverse communities to share their cultural experiences through education programs and community events; and to house Maine's Irish genealogical center, museum, archives and library, preserving the story of Irish history in Maine.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 63% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.9%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 6
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: 40%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.9% of revenue deployed · 5.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.