Maine Women's Lobby

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
010357336
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Augusta, ME, USA
Phone
2076220851
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,914
Expenses
$108,048
Assets
$6,305
Liabilities
$16,953

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • MEGHAN GARDNER (CHAIR)
  • NONA GILLIS (TREASURER)
  • SELECCA BULGAR-MEDINA (MEMBER)

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

Public issue advocacy

What it reported doing in 2025

Legislation and lobbying: through direct and indirect legislation advocacy, the Maine women's lobby advocates for gender-responsive and gender- equitable public policies, with a focus on those most affected by misogyny, sexism, and other forms of oppression. Our policy focus areas are freedom from violence, freedom from discrimination, access to health care, including reproductive health care, economic justice, and we also advocate for systems and representation which ensure equity and justice for all mainers. In 2025, we led the Maine era for all coalition to continue to advocate for an inclusive equal right amendment to the Maine constitution. We successfully defeated threats to the Maine paid family and medical leave program which we helped establish in 2023 with the support of the Maine paid leave coalition, which we lead. We also worked with partners to successfully push back proposals that would have undermined Maine's civic rights protections for sex and gender, and to advocate for a gender-just budget that invests in women's health and safety.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 74.3%; rating input score 74

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.69; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 74.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.